Furniture company expands/relocates to Fort Mill

Furniture company FOB -- based on the shipping term "Freight on Board" -- has moved to Fort Mill from Charlotte's South End and added 33 percent in square footage.

Founder and owner Brian Hunt tells the Observer that the company made the move to better accommodate its warehousing and distribution needs as well as several more employees it has hired lately. FOB has five full-time employees but expands to 80 employees during peak furniture-installing season for student housing. The company now occupies a 20,000-square-foot warehouse in Bailes Ridge Corporate Park in Fort Mill.

 Nine-year-old FOB generates sales of $3.5 million a year, according to Hunt, and installs furniture all over the country, mostly for student and military housing. For more info, visit www.studenthousingfurniture.com.