Currently, the Biltmore Estate home furnishings licensees include: Carolina Mirror, Directional Publishing, As You Like It, Craftique, Imperial Home Decor Group, Oriental Accent, Southern Living House Plans, Tai Ping, Paragon Picture Gallery and Sadek Import Company, NDI, Kravet Fabrics, Great City Traders, Keller Charles Inc., Manual Woodworkers and Weavers, and Executive Kitchens, Inc.

In 1889, George Vanderbilt and his wife Edith purchased a nearby town, renamed Biltmore Village.

Additionally, the couple created and funded Biltmore Estate Industries, which developed a system of teaching traditional craft making.

[1] George and Edith Vanderbilt were very environmentally conscious, and they sold over 86,000 acres of the surrounding land to the government to create the Pisgah National Forest.

The company claims to host more than one million guests per year, and it functions solely through private funding.