is a privately held furniture retailer headquartered at englewood colorado . it was founded in 1975 by entrepreneur jacob jabs in a former american furniture co. store location at 58th avenue and bannock in denver colorado . 1 as of 2014 afw has 14 locations 12 in colorado & 2 in arizona with its newest opening in the phoenix suburb of glendale on saturday august 23 2014 . afw is well known in the front range area as colorado s largest furniture retailer and for its frequent advertisements featuring founder jake jabs and animals . his local fame is such that jabs was featured along with ron zappolo tom shane and jay cutler in the cartoon south park season 11 episode entitled guitar queer o as a celebrity . 2 jabs is known as a major republican donor and a financial backer of american tradition partnership a group working to overturn montana s campaign financial laws . 3 4 in 2003 american furniture warehouse and value city declared they would no longer buy bedroom sets from companies whose executives signed a petition charging china with illegally dumping cheap furniture in the united states including vaughan bassett furniture co. hooker furniture corp. and la z boy inc. 5 see also edit cox furniture warehouse united furniture warehouse references edit corporate history page . archived from the original on 19 october 2008 . retrieved 2008 10 09 . husted bill 2007 11 11 . south park drops names takes jabs . denver post . archived from the original on 9 july 2008 . retrieved 2008 07 07 . abowd paul october 26 2012 . mystery deepens over origins of nonprofit battling montana spending limits . center for public integrity . retrieved october 29 2012 . duszak alexandra october 22 2012 . furniture king a celebrity in colorado . center for public integrity . retrieved october 29 2012 . normington mick 2003 12 08 . furniture retailers strike back against tariff supporters . triad business journal . retrieved 2008 10 09 . external links edit official website this united states retail business article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title american furniture warehouse & oldid 738121579 categories companies based in meridian coloradofurniture retailers of the united statescompanies established in 1975united states retail company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 7 september 2016 at 01 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view