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The family owned and operated Santa Clarita furniture store A Royal Suite is helping keep jobs in the United States by filling their showroom with high-quality furniture made in America.

“We made a huge, huge commitment about four years ago to try to focus on our American-made manufacturers,” said Norb Moniz of A Royal Suite. “It’s important for us to bring jobs back to America.”

Following the rise of inexpensive, but usually poor quality, furniture made in foreign countries, many American furniture manufacturers often run by multi-generational families were forced to lay off workers or even close their doors, according to Moniz.

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As a result, furniture stores like A Royal Suite have made an effort to identify high-demand categories of furniture and locate American manufacturers to partner with in providing these products to their customers, helping these facilities stay in business.

For categories of products only available overseas, Moniz said A Royal Suite helps create American jobs by requiring the foreign manufacturer to bring the product into the United States and employ a certain number of Americans before they will carry that product.

“A thousand American jobs have to be employed before we will buy their product,” he explained. “We will not buy product directly from China and bring it in directly to our facility. It has to go through some type of standards throughout the United States; otherwise we just will not carry their product.”

And the benefits of carrying American-made products don’t stop there:

“We feel real strong that we get a better product, we ship quicker and it gives us the ability to customize our product if we strictly focus on American-made products,” Moniz said.

Not only can customers more easily customize the style, shape and fabric of their furniture when it’s American-made, they also have the option to repair damages later on, according to Moniz.

“Once products come in from overseas, after a year it’s no longer available… They make a huge manufacturing run of this product and once it’s gone, it’s gone,” he said. “When a product is made in America, if by some chance there’s some part that’s necessary a year later, we’re able to get it. We’re able to satisfy our customer’s needs.”

The Santa Clarita furniture store A Royal Suite has been in the Santa Clarita Valley for 37 years, with its newest 22,000-square-foot showroom located on Carl Boyer Drive. About 80 percent of the products available at A Royal Suite are furniture made in America, with custom sofa, upholstery, living room and memory foam mattress options available.

A Royal Suite

26536 Carl Boyer Drive

Santa Clarita, CA 91350

661-259-7000