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Maker & Son
Luxury furniture brand
- 101-200 employees
- B2C
- Retail
- Lifestyle
- Furniture
- Consumer Goods
- eCommerce
- Tribeca, New York, NY
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Company mission
To create beautiful furniture from natural materials that make a positive difference and last forever.
Our take
Maker&Son is a British furniture brand setting out to create comfortable and aesthetic products. They are a fast-growing company, having a 300% growth year-on-year since their launch in 2018.
Maker&Son sets itself apart being a family business (the founders are father and son) and creating sustainable, luxury furniture entirely made from natural materials. As part of the company's focus on sustainability, Maker&Son deliberately avoided international shipping and instead partnered with local manufacturers to bring the brand to countries outside of the United Kingdom
The company is currently present in the United Kingdom, Australia & New Zealand and its main priority for the following period is international expansion, starting with the US. Maker&Son have announced Jim Hardy, a former senior vice president at Ralph Lauren and most recently the interim president of One Kings Lane, as the Maker&Son's first North American president.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Authenticity - we love what we do, we do what we say we do, we are what we say we are
- Awareness - we are aware of the needs of our customers; we enjoy the continual process of understanding them and we go out of our way to ensure that we show them that we have this understanding
- Respectfulness - we are respectful of the gift that we have been given to create this brand in the first place. We are respectful of and cherish the people that work with us as employees and suppliers. We are respectful and incredibly grateful for the customers that engage with us. We are deeply respectful of the environment and all the resources we use to create the products that we do. We respect that customers have many choices and that we constantly need to be delivering to the best of our abilities in order to meet their needs
- Comfort - we create extraordinarily comfortable sofas and chairs. This level of physical comfort can often enable the individual that sits in them to experience a level of mental comfort, a peaceful mindfulness that they may otherwise find difficult to access. The element of comfort is further enhanced by the fact that the furniture is made with natural materials in a sustainable way, by highly skilled people who love what they do and will last a lifetime
- Connection - we create content that connects and emotionally engages with people by conveying the main benefits of what our sofas and chairs provide, namely physical and mental comfort
- Trust - we build trust through every part of what we do. Trust in the benefits of what our sofas and chairs bring, trust in the product, trust in the service. trust in the authenticity, trust in the brand
- Resilience - we design and build products that last. We are designing and building business processes, teams and supplier networks to sustain our growth that, like our products, are robust enough to manage all the experiences required of them. We welcome employees and suppliers that have an inherent understanding of the need for these qualities in their work
Leadership
Alex Willcock
(Co-FounderFounder)Previously Creative Director at Conran for 3 years and Founder at VisualDNA for 8 years.
Felix Conran
(Co-Founder & Director)Previously founded of C-L-O-T-H and Felix Conran.
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Nice people (2)
Growing fast (2)
Data-driven decisions (2)
Challenging work (1)
Opportunities to learn (1)
Supportive management (1)
Great work is recognised (1)
Flexible working (1)
Inspiring mission (1)
The people are what make working at Maker&Son so special!
Marketing
Nice people
Jul 2021
Each day is different but that's amazing. I'm constantly challenged and it makes the days go by so fast.
Marketing
Challenging work
Jul 2021
Everything is very fast paced. But that just means you see the efforts of your work really quickly. It's very exciting.
Marketing
Growing fast
Jul 2021
Maker&Son comprises of some of the nicest people that I have worked with in my career. It's a very open culture where new ideas are welcome and team members feel inspired to pursue innovation in their respective fields. With a team spanning across many different countries, there is an enormous amount of diversity and it really feels like one big family!
Marketing
Nice people
Jul 2021
The management at Maker&Son urges the team to take risks and that's one of the reasons why the company has grown so quickly in a short period of time. It not only helps to deliver my best at my job but also drives a great culture, making this organisation such a wonderful place to work at.
Marketing
Supportive management
Jul 2021
Data is at the heart of decision making at every level in the company. The entire team actively seeks out data based evidences to drive actions which results in a super logical and transparent way of working.
Marketing
Data-driven decisions
Jul 2021
Alex and son Felix founded Maker&Son in Sussex, England, in February 2018 and have already branched out from the UK to the USA, Australia and New Zealand, with production happening on each continent. This rapid expansion creates exciting opportunities.
Other Engineering
Growing fast
Jul 2021
Maker&Son's approach to flexible working pre-dates the pandemic and is part of their company culture. They have staff in multiple global locations, so multiple time zones, all working collaboratively online ensuring a constant work flow around the clock.
Other Engineering
Flexible working
Jul 2021
Having started in the Australian arm of Maker&Son, working on their Paid Search, I was asked to attend the UK led SEO meetings and was offered the job of Global SEO Manager at the start of July.
Other Engineering
Great work is recognised
Jul 2021
Maker&Son is a company with a really inspiring vision that has delivered really fast growth and achieved so much in it's first 3 years. There is so much opportunity within the business, the team are really lovely and it's a great place to learn and progress.
Operations & Strategy
Opportunities to learn
Jul 2021
The company only makes furniture that is sustainable and made from natural materials; it is a family business with really strong values that is super ambitious to be a global luxury furniture brand. Their approach is innovative and disruptive.
Operations & Strategy
Inspiring mission
Jul 2021
Maker&Son say data is one of the key pillars of the business alongside people, brand and the product. They have invested in data and tech from day 1 and believe passionately in metric driven decision-making plus testing and learning with everything they do.
Operations & Strategy
Data-driven decisions
Jul 2021