Badcock Home Furniture

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Badcock began in Mulberry, Florida, in 1904, when Henry S. Badcock opened a modest store. His son, Wogan S. Badcock, built the operation into a major southeastern home-furnishings business, using a dealer-store model long before “local ownership” became marketing copy.

Operating as W.S. Badcock Corporation, the Mulberry company sold furniture, mattresses, appliances, electronics, home-office gear and assorted domestic ambitions under the Badcock Home Furniture & more name. Its familiar stores spread across eight southeastern states, mixing company-run showrooms with independently owned dealer locations.

Five generations of family ownership ended in November 2021, when Franchise Group acquired W.S. Badcock Corporation for about $581 million. The corporation converted to W.S. Badcock LLC on December 8, 2023, and Conn’s acquired the business on December 18, 2023. Corporate furniture moves: always sturdier than the flat-pack stuff, until they are not.

After Conn’s filed for Chapter 11 protection in July 2024, liquidation sales began across the Conn’s and Badcock network. The Mulberry-based Badcock chain wound down its stores by late 2024, ending a 120-year retail run. This entry covers that former W.S. Badcock business, not the separately operated South Florida Badcock licensee.

Our Badcock Home Furniture collection celebrates the glowing showroom signs, the dealer-store hustle, the financed recliner, and the distinctly Floridian confidence that a new living-room set could solve practically anything.