About the Business
For over 100 years, All Makes has been a family-run business that provides furniture and machinery to all kinds of businesses - from big corporations to home-based ones. With showrooms in Omaha, Lincoln, Kearney, and Columbus (NE) and Des Moines (IA), All Makes offers a wide range of solutions to meet the needs of any type of business.
If you would like to learn more about what we have to offer, please don't hesitate to give us a call today. No matter what your needs are, we will do our best to provide you with the top-notch service that you deserve.
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- In 1918, Russian immigrant Harry Ferer founded All Makes Typewriter Co., just blocks from where the All Makes Omaha showroom is located today. Among the products he sold was the Ediphone, a state-of-the-art dictating machine invented by an acquaintance named Thomas Edison. Family folklore has it that Ferer and Edison may have actually been friends and that Ferer had visited the famed inventor's home. Ferer's son-in-law, Lazier Kavich, joined the company in 1938, adding government surplus items and used office furniture to the mix. The company was renamed All Makes Office Equipment Company in 1960 to reflect its expansion and broader product selection. When Lazier's son, Larry Kavich, joined the company in 1965, he saw an opportunity to enter the contract furniture business, adding new furnishings to All Makes' offerings of office machines and pre-owned furniture. Forty-two years after Larry Kavich joined the family business, he turned over the top daily decision-making duties to
- (515) 282-2166
- 500 E Court Ave Ste 150, Des Moines, IA 50309
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