Kuka Home

Kuka Home, styled by the company as KUKA HOME, is a Chinese upholstered-furniture manufacturer and brand. The business traces its establishment to 1982, when it was founded by Gu Yuhua in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. Its origins place it within China’s modern furniture-manufacturing sector, while its later development established a larger national manufacturing and retail network under Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. The brand focuses on upholstered furniture, a category that includes products made with padded and covered structural components rather than primarily exposed wood or metal. Kuka Home’s identity is therefore associated with residential comfort furnishings and with the manufacturing, distribution, and retail activities needed to sell such products at scale. The available reference material does not provide a complete product catalogue, detailed revenue history, or a precise breakdown of domestic and overseas sales, so the brand’s offering is best described at the category level rather than through unsupported product-specific claims. Kuka Home is headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. The company is reported to operate approximately 4,000 branded stores and five production bases. These manufacturing locations include facilities in Xiasha and Jiangdong in Zhejiang Province, as well as sites in Hubei and Hebei provinces. This footprint indicates a vertically organized operating model combining production capacity with an extensive branded retail presence in China. A significant corporate milestone came on 14 October 2016, when Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., the parent company associated with Kuka Home, became listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. The listing placed the Kuka Home business within a publicly traded corporate structure and provided a formal capital-markets identity for its parent group. No ticker symbol or financial figures are included here because the supplied reference material does not specify them. Kuka Home has also developed international brand relationships. It is described as the Chinese partner of La-Z-Boy, the American furniture manufacturer, and of Natuzzi, the Italian high-end furniture company. These relationships connect Kuka Home with established overseas furniture names, although the available material does not specify the exact commercial scope, dates, ownership arrangements, or current status of each partnership. Based on the supplied sources, Kuka Home should be understood as an active Chinese furniture brand rather than as the unrelated German industrial-robotics company KUKA. Its principal distinguishing characteristics are its long operating history beginning in 1982, its specialization in upholstered furniture, its affiliation with Jason Furniture, its large Chinese store network, and its multi-base manufacturing infrastructure. Further details about current executives, specific product families, international sales, financial performance, and recent campaigns require additional authoritative sourcing.

Kuka Home is a Chinese upholstered-furniture manufacturer and brand whose history begins in 1982. According to the supplied reference material, Gu Yuhua established the business in Nantong, Jiangsu Province. The company’s early foundation in Nantong places it within the development of China’s furniture-manufacturing industry, although the available source does not provide a detailed account of its original factory, early products, or initial ownership structure. Over time, the business developed into a broader manufacturing and branded-retail operation. Kuka Home became associated with Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., which is identified as its parent company. The corporate relationship explains the brand’s connection to Hangzhou, where the business is headquartered, and places Kuka Home within a larger furniture enterprise rather than treating it as an independent standalone legal entity in the available description. The brand’s core activity is upholstered furniture. This specialization distinguishes Kuka Home from furniture companies focused primarily on case goods, exposed-wood furniture, or general homewares. The reference material does not enumerate every product family, but it identifies Kuka Home as an upholstery-furniture manufacturer and indicates a substantial physical distribution network. The company is reported to have approximately 4,000 brand stores, giving it a significant retail presence in China. Manufacturing expansion is reflected in a reported network of five production bases. Facilities are identified in Xiasha and Jiangdong in Zhejiang Province, together with bases in Hubei and Hebei provinces. The source does not provide opening dates, individual capacities, employment figures, or production volumes, but the geographical spread indicates that the brand’s operations extend beyond its original Nantong roots and are organized across multiple Chinese industrial locations. A major corporate turning point occurred on 14 October 2016. Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. was officially listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. This event gave the parent company a public-market structure and marked an important stage in the formal development of the corporate group connected with Kuka Home. The supplied material does not state a ticker symbol, offering size, valuation, or subsequent financial results, so those details are not included. Kuka Home also established relationships with international furniture companies. It is described as the Chinese partner of La-Z-Boy of the United States and Natuzzi of Italy. These relationships broaden the brand’s international connections and associate it with recognized overseas furniture specialists. However, the reference does not clarify whether the arrangements involve licensing, distribution, manufacturing, retail cooperation, or another form of partnership, nor does it provide their dates or current contractual status. The available evidence presents Kuka Home as an active Chinese furniture brand with a long operating history, a specialized upholstered-furniture identity, extensive domestic retail coverage, and a distributed production system. Its development has been shaped by the transition from a business founded in Nantong in 1982 to a nationally scaled brand headquartered in Hangzhou and linked to a Shanghai-listed parent company. Information about later product launches, leadership changes, international expansion, marketing campaigns, controversies, and current operating performance is not established by the supplied material and therefore remains unfilled.

• 2016

  Parent company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange

  [1]Kuka Homeen.wikipedia.org

  Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., identified as Kuka Home’s parent company, was officially listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on 14 October 2016.

• 1982

  Business established in Nantong

  [1]Kuka Homeen.wikipedia.org

  Gu Yuhua established the business in Nantong, Jiangsu Province, marking the beginning of the enterprise that later developed the Kuka Home brand.

A large-scale Chinese upholstered-furniture manufacturer and retail brand, positioned around branded residential furniture, manufacturing capacity, and broad store coverage.

• Residential furniture

  Upholstered furniture

  Upholstered furniture is Kuka Home’s defining product category. The brand manufactures and sells furniture built around padded, covered, or cushioned components, serving residential furnishing needs. The supplied source identifies the company at this category level but does not provide a verified item-by-item catalogue or enough information to name specific flagship models.

• 2021

  Gu Jiangsheng Insider Trading Investigation Closed; Controlling Shareholder Fined Separately for Using Another's Account

  In December 2020, then-chairman Gu Jiangsheng was placed under investigation on suspicion of insider trading; in September 2021, the CSRC concluded that the alleged illegal facts did not hold and closed the case. In a separate matter, the controlling shareholder Kuka Group was fined RMB 200,000 for illegally using another person's account to trade shares of Xilinmen. The company's announcement made clear that the penalty did not involve the listed company.

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• 2016

  Adoption of a public-company structure through parent-company listingStrategy

  Background

  Kuka Home operated as a brand associated with Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. The parent company’s stock-market listing formalized its position within a publicly traded corporate structure.

  Action taken

  Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. was officially listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on 14 October 2016.

  Aftermath

  The listing established a public-market framework for the parent company connected with Kuka Home. The supplied source does not report specific post-listing financial or operational outcomes.

  Source

• 2016

  Jason Furniture parent company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange[1]Kuka Homeen.wikipedia.org

  Other

  Jason Furniture (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd., the parent company associated with Kuka Home, was officially listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on 14 October 2016.

• Kuka Home maintains partnerships with La-Z-Boy and Natuzzi[1]Kuka Homeen.wikipedia.org

  Other

  Kuka Home is described as the Chinese partner of American furniture manufacturer La-Z-Boy and Italian high-end furniture company Natuzzi. The supplied source does not provide partnership dates or detailed commercial terms.

1. 1Kuka Homeen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Gu Jiangsheng Insider Trading Investigation Closed; Controlling Shareholder Fined Separately for Using Another's Accountpdf.dfcfw.com