Safavieh Doubles Pennsylvania Warehouse Capacity

Port Washington, NY, January 14, 2008–Safavieh recently more than doubled its warehouse space in Pennsylvania with the purchase of a 320,000-square-foot facility.

The new site in Easton is a supplement to the company’s 250,000-square-foot warehouse in Allentown. The expanded capacity will help the company stock rugs and furniture for quick-ship delivery.

New capacity is needed because of sales growth, based on substantial sales increases in 2006 and 2007 as well as forecasted growth for this year, the company said.

Another factor contributing to the expansion is Safavieh’s rapidly growing furniture program, marketed as the American Home Furniture Collection.

“We have experienced significant sales increases since the launch of our Thomas O’Brien and Martha Stewart licensed rug collections, and in the past year demand for Safavieh programmed rug collections has broken records in all retail channels,” said Arash Yaraghi, company principal.