Article: Portable chairs nor just for sitting.(promotional chairs)

It was a fortuitous day in our industry when Jan Zukowski's daughter started showing horses.

Being a supportive mother, Jan followed her daughter around to horse shows and didn't have a place to sit. Being an inventive soul, she took sewing machine in hand and fashioned a portable chair that could be tossed in the back of the car. These early attempts became a successful product, the folding chair.

Jan says, "My husband and I perfected it between the garage and the living room." Sixteen years later, this product is an important category within the industry and is available from dozens of suppliers. Kingsport, Tenn.-based Easy Seat, Zukowski's company, is ...

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