100+ Years of
Innovation in Motion
From the soundstages of early Hollywood to the world’s leading hotels, resorts, restaurants and event spaces, Forbes Industries has spent more than a century designing products that keep hospitality moving.
Built to Move.
Built to Last.
Forbes Industries began with a simple idea: build equipment that helps people move their work more efficiently.
What started with heavy-duty carts for Hollywood’s growing film industry evolved into solutions for grocery, industrial and hospitality operations across the country. Today, that same philosophy drives the products Forbes designs for hotels, resorts, restaurants, casinos, convention centers and event venues around the world.
Through every era, the goal has remained remarkably consistent — solve real operational challenges with products engineered for mobility, durability, functionality and exceptional guest experiences.
More Than a Century
of Customer Success
Innovation at Forbes has never been about change for its own sake. It has always been about helping customers operate more efficiently, serve guests more effectively and invest in equipment built for long-term performance.
Watch the Forbes Industries anniversary film and discover how mobility, craftsmanship and customer-driven design shaped more than 100 years of innovation.
100+ Years of
Innovation in Motion
Explore the eras that transformed Forbes from a Hollywood equipment-cart manufacturer into a global provider of hospitality, food & beverage, meetings and operational solutions.
Founding Years
Forbes began in 1919 building rugged equipment carts for Hollywood’s rapidly growing film industry. Mobility was essential on busy sets, and that early focus on durable rolling equipment became the foundation for everything that followed.
Equipment carts help early movie productions move lights, cameras and materials efficiently.
Forbes applies its mobile-equipment expertise to grocery carts and industrial applications.
The company establishes a foundation for decades of continued growth.
The Hospitality Era
As hotels expanded across America, Forbes brought decades of mobile-equipment knowledge to hospitality, creating durable products for housekeeping, bell service, banquet operations and food service.
Purpose-built carts help hotel teams improve efficiency behind the scenes.
A Forbes hospitality icon emerges, combining durability, mobility and a memorable arrival experience.
Forbes extends mobile expertise into equipment supporting hotel and restaurant service.
Modular Innovation
Operational space became increasingly valuable. Forbes responded with flexible products engineered to move easily, store efficiently and adapt to changing hospitality environments.
Engineering and product innovation receive a more focused strategic role.
Forbes expands deeper into catering and dining with flexible table solutions.
Space-saving design combines presentation, mobility and efficient storage.
Mobile architecture gives operators more flexibility in changing environments.
Experience Design
Hospitality became increasingly experiential. Forbes focused on products that did more than support operations — they became part of the guest experience itself.
Mobile live-action service brings culinary presentation directly to the guest.
Collaboration with industry experts helps create an elevated tableside cocktail experience.
More products are developed around specific operational and guest-experience challenges.
The Next Chapter
Forbes continues to expand across meetings, events and outdoor hospitality while developing flexible solutions for today’s storage, mobility and presentation challenges.
Café, training, banquet and event furniture broaden the Forbes hospitality portfolio.
Seating solutions combine commercial durability with guest-focused comfort.
Weather-ready mobile furniture extends Forbes performance into terraces, pool decks and outdoor event spaces.
New modular and space-saving systems continue a design philosophy that began more than a century ago.
From Hollywood Soundstages
to Five-Star Hospitality
Where It Began
Mobility first became the Forbes specialty behind the scenes of Hollywood.
The Birdcage®
An unmistakable symbol of arrival, craftsmanship and enduring quality.
Built for the Long Run
Quality manufacturing remains central to the Forbes story.
A Legacy Built
for What’s Next.
More than a century of experience matters only if it continues to create value for customers. That’s why Forbes keeps refining materials, mobility, storage, customization and product performance around the real needs of hospitality professionals.
The products have evolved dramatically since 1919. The commitment behind them has not.
Explore Forbes Quality →Let’s Keep Hospitality Moving.
From proven standards to completely custom solutions, Forbes Industries continues to engineer products around the people, places and experiences they serve.