Moser, Preferred Office Products Top Suppliers List

In this issue, the Northwest Arkansas Business Journal ranked the largest office equipment and office furniture suppliers in Northwest Arkansas.

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Moser Corp. of Rogers and Preferred Office Products of Fayetteville tied for the No. 1 spot, with 40 full-time employees each.

It’s the second year in a row that Moser topped the list, and Preferred Office Products rose from the third spot last year, growing its local staff by about 14 percent.

Ashley Furniture HomeStore in Springdale and Professional Business Systems Inc. in Bentonville tied for the No. 3 spot, with 30 full-time employees each. 

Ashley Furniture was No. 2 last year, with 35 employees, and PBS rose from No. 4, although the company did not report any additional staff.

Lighting Emporium of Springdale rounded out the top five, with 25 employees, up a bit from 2015, when the store reported 21 staff members.

Corporate Business Systems in Bentonville doubled its local staff since last year, from five to 10. It tied for 10th largest supplier on the list.

The company’s president, Tyson Johns, said its client base is more than doubling in size each year, and CBS added the employees to keep up with work, “in order to make sure our clients are taken care of the CBS way.”

With branches in St. Robert, Springfield and Joplin, Missouri, CBS has 80 employees chain-wide.

Two additions were made to the 2016 list: Bell Office Supply of Siloam Springs and Innerplan Office Interiors Inc. in Fayetteville.

Bell Office is a second-generation family business, with eight reported employees.

Innerplan Office is based in North Little Rock, but has a store and many clients in Northwest Arkansas, according to the company.

The rankings are based on self-reported staff counts, taken June 2016. Big-box retailers and other national chains were intentionally excluded.

Overall, the industry is 283 staff members strong, and the companies have more than 300,000 SF of showroom space.