When the NBA championship finals opened last spring with the Utah Jazz playing the Chicago Bulls, most sports writers agreed that the series was a toss-up. But the 500 men and women who work for the Hussey Seating Co. knew from the start they had a sure thing. Hussey had manufactured the seats for both teams’ arenas — Utah’s 22,000-seat Delta Center and Chicago’s 20,000-seat United Center.
Hussey’s “mortal lock” on the seats for the championships was not surprising, because the fast-growing, $90 million/year company, headquartered in North Berwick, ME, has become one of the nation’s leading makers of spectator seating. Company spokesmen say it produces the broadest line of fixed chairs in the industry today, including seats for arenas and stadiums, movie theaters, and lecture halls.