Sauder woodworking furniture is manufactured using traditional solid wood, veneered, and laminate furniture provided by one of their subsidiary companies. It is the largest maker of ready-to-assemble (RTA) furniture in the United States and is one of the nation's largest residential furnishing manufacturers.
Sauder markets distinct furniture collections in a full line of RTA furnishings for the home, including entertainment, home office, bedroom, kitchen and storage. Sauder is a third generation, family-run company.
Subsidiaries include Progressive Furniture; Sauder Furniture Manufacturing Company, specializing in church and institutional seating; Archbold Container Corporation, producing packaging materials; and Studio RTA, importing and distributing home office, entertainment and art and hobby.
In 1934, Erie Sauder started a woodworking business in a barn behind his home. Not wanting to waste scraps from expensive fine wood, he began producing inexpensive occasional tables. With an order of 25,000 tables from a traveling salesman, Sauder Woodworking Co. began.
In 1951, Sauder furniture introduced an entirely new concept, a patented table that could be assembled at home. The snap together table marked the beginning of the ready to assemble industry. |
