Furniture conglomerate Markor grew out of an interior design business. Its founder, Richard Feng, did a brisk business creating nightclubs and hotels in China, until the late 1980s, when he decided to pivot to a larger industry: furniture. “The first person in our family who went to High Point was my mother,” Mark Feng, Richard’s son and the company’s current chairman and CEO, tells Dennis Scully on the latest episode of The Business of Home Podcast . As an outsider, she wasn’t allowed into showrooms, but she took photos and sent them back home to China. “[She wrote on the back], ‘Hey, these people look professional. We should probably get into this.’”

In 1990, the family set up a furniture manufacturing factory in China, first doing business for other brands before starting their own

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