Palliser Furniture

Palliser Furniture is Canada’s leading home furnishings manufacturer. Celebrating over 60 years of innovative design, quality manufacturing and reliable service, this family owned company employs approximately 3,000 people in facilities in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Indonesia.Palliser Furniture Ltd. was established in 1944. Abram Albert DeFehr, a Russian born immigrant to Canada, began making simple wooden pieces in the basement of his Winnipeg home. Palliser's first furniture factory began a few years later in an old chicken barn.

Today the Palliser Group Companies produce furniture in Canada, Mexico and Indonesia in their own plants and contract factories across the world. Palliser President & CEO is Art Defehr. Palliser manufactures all types of upholstery, stationary, motion, recliners, home theatre, and chairs in leather and fabric in one of it’s 6 factories in North America. EQ3 President & CEO is Peter Tielmann. The EQ3 concept was originally rooted in European design. EQ3’s strategy from day one has been to provide affordable home furnishing to those who value modern design. EQ3 continues to expand its retail presence across North America and around the world. Casana Furniture Company is lead by Roger Friesen, President & CEO. Casana is an international design and marketing company committed to developing high quality and innovative residential furniture products. Palliser is both a business and a community. Its roots have been nourished by the work ethic of founder, A.A. DeFehr, and its current values and principles are a product of his, and his family’s, personal views. The DeFehr family, through the DeFehr Foundation, is a long-time and generous contributor to many cultural and social causes. In the past, the Foundation primarily supported local needs in his home city of Winnipeg, Canada, but recently the international reach of Palliser, and its sister companies have led to a substantial increase of support for causes around the world. The Foundation, company or family members have been instrumental in many refugee initiatives, the creation of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, the development of a leading international agency that specializes in low-cost irrigation IDE International Development Enterprise, the founding of Canadian Mennonite University and Lithuanian Christian College, a private University in the former Soviet Union.

External links

• Palliser website