Company Milestones
In March of this year the company went public, with 600 people buying over 320,000 shares in over-the-counter trading.
What is 1972?
La-Z-Boy trades on the NYSE under this three-letter ticker.
What is LZB?
La-Z-Boy ranked No. 1 in the furniture category on this publication's 2025 list of America's Best Retailers.
What is Newsweek?
Long before La-Z-Boy, the first true reclining chair-bed appeared around 1850 as portable field furniture for this country's military.
What is France?
La-Z-Boy timed its "Long Live the Lazy" launch to embrace JOMO, this three-word phrase.
What is the joy of missing out?
To separate manufacturing from retailing, the La-Z-Boy Chair Company was incorporated in this year.
What is 1941?
The company's founding year, making it nearly a century old in 2026.
What is 1927?
In 2026 La-Z-Boy was named to this magazine's list of America's Most Iconic Companies.
What is TIME?
The "La-Z-Boy" name won a contest, but the cousins officially trademarked it in this year.
What is 1931?
In 2023 La-Z-Boy unveiled this tongue-in-cheek AI-powered chair prototype that texts an excuse to cancel plans when you pull the handle.
What is The Decliner?
In 1961 La-Z-Boy opened its first factory outside Michigan in this town.
What is Newton, Mississippi?
Roughly this share of La-Z-Boy's finished goods are produced in North America.
What is 90%?
The founders' original novelty product, a telephone bench designed for long calls, carried this nickname.
What is The Gossiper?
La-Z-Boy first offered recliners with these power-driven controls in this year.
What is 1970?
La-Z-Boy's 2024 petition to ban reclining airline seats collected roughly this many signatures.
What is (nearly) 200,000?
The company adopted this name, taken from Monroe's nickname, before the "La-Z-Boy" brand took over.
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La-Z-Boy holds US and international patents on more than this many styles and mechanisms.
What is 200?
In fiscal 2025 La-Z-Boy surpassed this round-number milestone of company-owned stores in the fourth quarter.
What is 200?
Reclining helps trigger this physiological state, a term coined by Harvard researcher Herbert Benson in the 1970s.
What is the relaxation response?
On the sitcom "Frasier," the title character repeatedly tried to toss out his dad Martin's beloved duct-taped recliner, and one episode was even punningly titled this.
What is "Bla-Z-Boy"?
Introduced in 1952, this recliner feature is now considered standard on the chairs.
What is a built-in footrest?
To prove their durability, La-Z-Boy recliners are put through this many reclines in testing.
What is 100,000?
The oldest operating independent La-Z-Boy store, in Albuquerque, was established by the Mauldin family in this year.
What is 1975?
Sitting upright loads about 90% of your upper-body weight on your spine, but reclining to roughly this angle shifts the work to the backrest.
What is 135 degrees?
In this 2024 Robert Zemeckis film starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, a 1940s character is depicted inventing the La-Z-Boy recliner.
What is "Here"?