Contract furnishings provider, Hightower received multiple awards at NeoCon 2021, including IIDA's 'Best Small Showroom' (under 4,000 sf) and 'Best of Competition' for its newly designed Chicago showroom.
Humanscale welcomes Elizabeth Margles to its Marketing Division in the role of Chief Marketing Officer. Margles comes to Humanscale with twenty years of experience in design, fashion and retail and a background in public relations and advertising.
The exclusive relationship with Kontrol's BioCloud® Technology will provide real-time detection of airborne pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 to help make workplaces safer as organizations return to the office.
When you think of the ultra-hip, ultra-expensive offices in London, American wood furniture does not immediately come to mind. And yet one entrepreneur and industry veteran is proving there is a growing appetite for beautifully crafted wood products in the city known more for its thoroughly modern workspaces.
Talk to anyone in the world of office furniture design from New York to Los Angeles to London and you begin to hear chatter about West Elm Workspace. You remember. It’s that new brand of low price, high fashion office furniture launched by one of the world’s most successful residential furniture companies with the help of Inscape Corp.
Designed to give JRB Studio a strong entry into a highly versatile casegoods-based product, the Marker Collection is the latest line from JRB Studio, a company that doesn’t believe in sitting still, even for a moment.
In response to the growing interest in workplace wellness, particularly through standing desks, office furniture maker Humanscale launched an activity tracking platform for its office furniture customers called OfficeIQ in collaboration with technology startup Tomelast year. This year at the Consumer Electronics Show, it added an insurer as a pilot partner and made the technology available to other contract office furniture manufacturers.
Though ergonomics and sustainability have long been influencing workplace design, wellbeing is the most recent consideration making headlines when planning your space. Wellbeing is a holistic design focusing on the user, aiming to encourage healthy living by providing wellness programs, social interaction and supporting cognitive activities.
Roughly 20 years ago, an Akron company was fighting to stay alive, operating an office furniture retail store on South Broadway in the city’s downtown. National big box retailers — Staples and the like — were taking the country by storm. Today, the business, which began as Summerville’s and now goes by Regency, is growing and is barely recognizable from the earlier company.
For years, I have followed the financials of Steelcase and Herman Miller and reported on them together, simply because it made sense from a timing standpoint — both companies tended to report quarterly financial results within a few days of each other — and partly because the companies have had a very similar business model. For the most part, comparing Steelcase and Herman Miller was an “apples to apples” comparison.
Read the article in the premier issue of The Business of Furniture bof.press >
When Chris Gibson and the rest of the Humanscale team went to the massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last year, he wasn't sure how the tech industry would react to OfficeIQ, the company's connected workplace system designed to help employees use the healthful office products they are given and show companies that it does make sense to spend more for a healthy and happy workforce. This year the industry is taking notice.
Read the article in the premier issue of The Business of Furniture bof.press >
Two of West Michigan's biggest office furniture makers are seeing a downturn in big project business. Chief executives at Steelcase and Herman Miller brought up the troubling trend during conference calls with analysts this month to discuss quarterly results.
A photo-essay of four recent industry showrooms designed by Gensler.
On the strength of its high degree of professionalism and service to its customers, its demonstrated operational excellence to the exacting standards of IS-BAO Stage II and its legacy of nearly 80,000 hours of accident-free flight over more than 44 years of operation, the editorial board at Professional Pilot magazine has selected the Steelcase flight department as its 2015 Flight Department of the Year.
The office furniture industry today faces a complex, challenging future. Company executives must manage their operations amid increasing margin pressure and an influx of imported products and new regulations, all while running short on talent. To navigate these challenges, industry leaders are turning to their strengths in new product development while implementing unique strategies to attract and retain talent. MiBiz gathered a group of leaders in the furniture industry for a roundtable discussion to talk about how these challenges and solutions will impact their businesses in 2016.
Steelcase (NYSE:SCS) said third-quarter adjusted earnings rose a penny to 30 cents, missing by 2 cents. Revenue fell 1.6% to $787.6 million dollars, missing. Steelcase's Q4 outlook was weak. The office furniture maker's shares plunged 20% in extended trading.
In a press release this morning, Indiana Furniture Industries announced that their CEO, Bret Ackerman, has resigned his position to assume other duties with the company. Ackerman has been with the company for 19 years, and has been President and CEO since 2010. His prior position was as Chief Financial Officer.
Part of their In Tube collection, Achodoso Estudio’s In_tube chair is the result of researching new ways of joining metallic tubes. Their finding was to make a partial cut at the outside curve letting a tube with a slightly smaller diameter fit inside it to create a connection.
Herman Miller, Inc. (MLHR) today announced results for its second quarter ended November 28, 2015. Net sales in the quarter totaled $580.4 million, an increase of 2.7% from the same quarter last fiscal year. New orders in the second quarter of $601.4 million were 5.1% above the prior year level. On an organic basis, which adjusts for foreign currency translation, sales and orders in the second quarter increased 5.1% and 7.2%, respectively, from the same quarter last fiscal year.
For the third quarter consisting of August, September and October revenue increased 4% from $62.3 million last year to $65.0 million this year. The combined effects of stable raw material costs, slightly higher prices, and better manufacturing and freight efficiencies boosted operating margins to 10%. Overall operating income was up 36%, from $4.8 million to $6.5 million.
John Hamilton is the Coalesse Director of Design and leader of the Coalesse Design Group in San Francisco. John shares some of his favorite design inspirations and what he loves about San Francisco in this edition of My Favorite Things.
Steelcase Inc. is ending the year with a report summing up its efforts to be a model corporate citizen. The 2015 Corporate Sustainability Report presents what the Grand Rapids office furniture maker sees as business, environmental and social achievements from the past year.
"At Steelcase, sustainability is a natural outgrowth of our passion for innovation and unlocking human promise," Jim Keane, Steelcase's chief executive officer, said in a statement. "Our 2015 report celebrates a year of progress. We believe that true progress is made in the small things we do every day to help create a positive impact for generations to come. And we're inspired by what's next."
Teknion, a furniture design firm, has opened a new Toronto Collaboration Hub in the city’s downtown core. The space features several different workplace planning styles, ranging from casual and modern with an open landscape to more conservative, formal layouts.
