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Chattanooga Manufacturing From Cradle to Grave

In the wide spectrum of things they made for markets near and far, Chattanooga manufacturers supported consumers from cradle to grave. Here are two examples.


DAVIS HOSIERY MILLS / UNITED HOSIERY MILLS / SKYLAND INTERNATIONAL / BUSTER BROWN APPAREL

Two milestones occurred two years apart in the early 1900�s which became part of the long time-line of a successful manufacturer in the East Chattanooga area.

In 1902, Richard F. Outcault created a comic strip that was published in the New York Herald, and which starred an impish young boy, Buster Brown, and his talking dog, Tige. The character was so successful that Buster was eventually featured in movies, radio, and television. In 1904, John Bush, an executive with the Brown Shoe Company, envisioned the financial rewards of product licensing of the popular Buster Brown. Mr. Bush acquired the rights to the name, and introduced it at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition.

In 1904, the Davis Hosiery Mills

Source: The Chattanoogan

Stone Creek Furniture makes buying direct easy with no strings ...

So what’s the deal with DirectBuy? Are you really buying direct? And what’s with charging consumers $4,900 for the privilege to buy direct? Stone Creek Furniture has been selling furniture direct to the public for over 19 years. And I mean, “direct.” Our customers pay the same prices that retailers would pay if they bought furniture wholesale from our factory. Then, they would mark it up and sell it in their stores. For years, over twenty five thousand valley residents have purchased Stone Creek Furniture and they keep coming back for more. Now that’s “direct!”

DirectBuy makes their customers pay a large membership fee and you have to sign on the spot or you can’t come back! Really? Talk about a hard sell. You mean you don’t even get an opportunity to go home and think about it?

Chris Fichera from Consumer Reports says, ” After the fee disclosure, we discovered that we had to sign up on the spot or never come back. We couldn’t bring DirectBuy’s “confidential” prices elsewhere to comparison-shop, the representatives said, because this would likely anger retailers who might then retaliate against the manufacturers by refusing to sell their merchandise.”

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The Chattanoogan - Nov 16, 2009

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The Hindu - Nov 01, 2009

The Chetty 'Olanders' always made on its premises from the time it got into the business in 1924, when it took over Oakes & Co's furniture factory dating to the 19th Century.

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Philadelphia Inquirer - Nov 13, 2009

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Canada.com - Nov 13, 2009

Just off the entrance hall is the handsome dining room and a magnificent dining table made from an enormous piece of African Bubingawood.

Baylor Chapman has a sense of repurpose

San Francisco Chronicle - Nov 01, 2009

(Her own dining room table bench is made cozy with throw pillows covered in vintage frond prints her sister collected in Thailand.) No matter, the spare and

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Interior Design - Nov 14, 2009

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The Story Seller

New York Times - Oct 23, 2009

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