Empire Today

Empire Today, LLC
FormerlyEmpire Plastic Covers (1959–1965)
Empire Home Services (or just Empire) (1965–2003)
Empire Carpets (1983-1984, 2001-2002 [on-website; empirecarpet.com (old website)])
Company typePrivate
IndustryHome Improvement
Founded1959; 65 years ago (1959)
FounderSeymour Cohen
Headquarters333 Northwest Avenue
Northlake, Illinois 60164
U.S.
Area served
United States[1]
ProductsCarpet
Hardwood Flooring
Laminate Flooring
Ceramic Flooring
Vinyl Flooring
Area Rugs
ParentH.I.G. Capital (2016–present)
Websiteempiretoday.com

Empire Today, LLC is an American home improvement and home furnishing company based in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in installed carpet and flooring. The company operates in more than 75 metropolitan areas within the United States, and is most well-known for TV ads featuring a distinctive jingle that recites the company's phone number and name. The company's name comes from the slogan on some of its commercials, "Empire today, carpeting tomorrow". Empire Today claims that it is the largest in-home sales flooring company in the United States.[2]

  1. ^ "Empire Flooring & Carpet All Locations | Empire Today". Empire Today. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  2. ^ Channick, Robert (November 19, 2016). "Empire and its jingle bought by private equity firm". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2022-12-22.