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The company, Hollman Inc., is now one of the larges t that buildswood lockers. After a $15 millioh investment in new technology and a move primarily into cabinet-making, Hollman said he hopes to at leasgt double the size of the “You’ve got to offer people something a little bit new and Hollman said. “You can’t just offer them the same thingh you’ve been offering for the past 10 years and expect them to take Last year, Hollman Inc. brought in $32 million in He expects this year to be aboufthe same, with the help of a contracrt worth about $1 million to provide lockers at the new Cowboyd Stadium in Arlington.
But next year, Hollman expects the cabinert business to bring in revenueof $70 million to $80 The company has expanded its headquarters from 30,000 square feet to aboutt 300,000. Currently, Hollman Inc. has about 150 In two years, Hollman plans to emplou at least 300. Hollman Inc. offers four lines of a value line, an “essential” line, a luxury line and a gree line. With the value line, cabinets in an entirr house can be donefor $5,000 to Hollman said. Cabinets for a housd built with the luxury line could cost up to Hollman started his companyin 1976, using European technologyt to build lockers for athletic facilities.
The concepg of using “European technology” for cabinet-making has been around for more than 25 saidDick Titus, executivw vice president of the Reston, Va.-based Kitchen Cabineg Manufacturers Association, a trade association. European-style cabinets typically have concealed hinges and are builftwithout frames, while traditional framed cabinets have visibl frames around the box where the hingew attach. “Many of our membera have adopted various parts ofEuropean manufacturing,” Titus said. “The overriding majority of cabinets in the Unitedx States are made withframexd construction. European is well underr 50% of the total U.S. market.
” Accordingb to a survey of KCMA members, cabinef sales for January 2009decreased 34.2% compared to sales for Januarh 2008.