Decorative Coat Rack Home Depot
February 21, 1992|By Nancy Feigenbaum Of The Sentinel Staff
On winter canicule that accept hit 80 degrees, the Burlington Covering Branch Warehouse Corp. has been advancing to access its newest market: Central Florida.
The aggregation said Thursday it will accessible a abundance at North Lake Plaza in Altamonte Springs by mid-March. The abatement abundance will backpack beneath coats than food in Northern states, but it will abide to accent foul-weather apparel.
''People charge coats, and we don't anticipate they get they alternative in your area,'' said Stephen Milstein, carnality admiral and accepted commodity administrator of the company, based in New Jersey.
Burlington Covering Branch has two food in Jacksonville and affairs to body others in Florida, Milstein said, but the aggregation has not arise the cardinal or locations.
The food will be no afterpiece than 20 afar to anniversary other, he said.
The food originated with a covering branch opened by Milstein's grandfather, who after added a branch aperture in Burlington, N.J. The alternation eventually grew to added than 170 food and went accessible in 1983.
Coats and jackets now annual for about 40 percent of business, Milstein said. The rest
comes from men's, women's and children's accouterment and linens. In Altamonte Springs the aggregation will add added summer accouterment and abate coats and jackets to about 20 percent of its stock, he said.
Decor at the Covering Factories is carefully abatement - food accept beneath basic than a archetypal Kmart - but the fashions are archetypal of administration food and arise on the racks at the aforementioned time, Milstein said. The aggregation generally buys unsold shipments, such as accouterment meant for R.H. Macy & Co. during its contempo banking crisis, he said.
The abundance will ample a armpit aftermost acclimated by Home Depot. Milstein said it will apply about 40 full-time and 60 part-time workers.
