Apr 12, 2013

Room & Board

Overview:
Room and Board is a Minnesota-based, privately owned company, and has been designing home furnishings for more than 30 years. It presently has 600 employees and operates 11 stores in seven states plus six delivery/distribution centers around the country. 90% of Room & Board products are American-made and 95% are exclusive to Room & Board. The company partners with small, family-owned businesses to produce their sofas, chairs, tables, office, bedroom, and outdoor furniture. Room & Board’s Shop From Home business, which consists of a print catalog and Web site, is the fastest-growing segment of its business.

Services:
For Room & Board, OPI has been involved with:

  • Custom Online Furniture Builders (Build your own custom sofa/table/rug etc..)
  • Metrics Implementation (Google Analytics/Adobe Omniture)
  • Mobile Site
  • Various Social Media integration
  • Java, Spring MVC, Freemarker, Sitemesh, HTML5, CSS3, JQuery

Outcomes
Object Partners has been working with Room and Board for over 2 years and has led significant development efforts in their web based custom furniture configurator, as well as a Custom Window Treatment web store for customers to buy custom shades, drapes, and hardware.

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