operations.
The Company normally operates all of its furniture manu-
facturing facilities from a one shift per day, five-day week
basis. Increasingly, certain departments and facilities are
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operated on a multi-shift basis. The plywood and ready-to-
assemble manufacturing facilities are typically operated on a
three shifts per day and two shifts per day, five-day week basis,
respectively.
The Company also leases and maintains showrooms in High
Point, NC, Dallas, TX, Atlanta, GA, Chicago, IL, Miami, FL,
Washington, DC, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA, New York, NY,
and Ontario, Canada, and retail stores in Topeka and Shawnee, KS.
The Company owns rights to cut timber on approximately 526
acres of undeveloped timberland in eastern North Carolina.
The Company owns substantial quantities of woodworking,
sewing and metalworking equipment located in its various plants.
The Company considers its present equipment to be adequate, well-
maintained, and generallymodern.
The Company currently owns 16 tractors and 26 trailers and
leases an additional 97 tractors and 307 trailers.
ITEM 3. Legal ProceedingsThe Company is involved in routine litigation from time to
time in the regular course of its business. In the opinion of
the Company, there are no material legal proceedings pending or
known to be contemplated to which the Company is a party or of
which any of its property is subject.
The Company and its operating entities presently are
involved in the following environmental proceedings:
1. Brown Jordan's California manufacturing facility is
located in El Monte, California in the San Gabriel Valley Ground-
water Basin. The Basin has been designated by the United States
Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") and the State of
California as a Superfund Site. Although no administrative or
judicial enforcement action has been taken by the EPA