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.
Three female Allsteel employees will be compensated for gender-based wage discrimination, a jury decided.
Erin Dindinger, a safety and environmental manager for 11 years, and Elizabeth Fruend, a plant manager, both claimed they were paid less than male employees with the same title. Lisa Loring, a manager for five years, said she was denied a promotion based on her gender.
Former CEO Max De Pree’s relationships with designers and architects put human-centered, problem-solving design at the heart of the company he served for more than 40 years.
It has been a choppy few months for those operating in the office furniture market, as Knoll’s Q2 earnings showed last week.
National Office Furniture recently received recertification of the ISO 14001 standards. National’s Environmental Management System has been certified to ISO 14001:2004 since 2008 and recently received the upgraded certification to ISO 14001:2015.
Founded in 1982, ITC specializes in making LED lighting products for the marine, recreational vehicle and office furniture industries. The company said it also developing new business opportunities in retail display and architectural lighting.
Orders received during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2017 were flat with the prior year fourth quarter, with increases in the education vertical (up 18%), the government vertical (up 11%), the finance vertical (up 9%), offsetting declines in the healthcare vertical (down 13%) and the commercial vertical (down 12%).
Kimball Office Park Avenue is an urban design hub that redefines the product experience and provides a lab that encourages exploration and creativity. Like a theatre company that transforms bare stage into fabricated realities, the Kimball Office Park Avenue showroom provides an ever-shifting mise-en-scène. It is an urban arena for the workplace to act as a stage.
Diversified manufacturer Leggett & Platt reported second quarter sales of $989 million, an increase of 3% versus second quarter 2016.
When you think of HON, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Maybe it’s our task seating. Maybe you know HON from the old days where our strongest suit was steel filing. Or, perhaps you are familiar with how we got started making recipe card boxes post World War II. If education furniture wasn’t something that popped into your head, you might be surprised to hear that HON has a very robust collection of learning solutions – a perfect example of our inspired practicality story. Take a look below at some of the ways HON has the right products for every space, every student and every type of learning.
Second quarter office furniture net sales decreased $21.7 million or 5.1 percent to $406.4 million. On an organic basis, sales increased 0.2 percent. Increases in the North American contract and international businesses were offset by a decrease in the supplies-driven business. The net impact of acquisitions and divestitures of small office furniture companies decreased sales $22.5 million compared to the prior year quarter.
The Sixers Innovation Lab Crafted by Kimball officially opened the doors Tuesday to its 8,000 square-foot lab space located at the base of the Business Operations Facility at the Philadelphia 76ers Training Complex. In a ribbon-cutting ceremony, the Innovation Lab officially recognized its four diverse inaugural companies spanning the esports, daily fantasy sports, pet care and digital cause media industries.
Koleksiyon, an international office furniture manufacturer, announced its expansion into Singapore market through a partnership with Vanguard Interiors.
Koleksiyon, an international office furniture manufacturer, announced its expansion into the Australia market through an exclusive partnership with JEB Group in Sydney.
It's been referred to as both the LCW, for Lounge Chair Wood, and the Eames Plywood Lounge Chair. Whichever you call it, it's a classic piece of 20th-Century design.
There's a renaissance taking place in Grand Rapids, Mich. The Midwest’s office furniture-making capital, with its bustling downtown and revitalized surrounding neighborhoods, has leveraged an infusion of creative 20- and 30-somethings to become a focal point for healthcare, information technology, and more recently, craft beer production.
Even as competitors in the modular construction industry continue to emerge at a breakneck pace, the founders of DIRTT find themselves completely unconcerned with what other companies are doing.
We often think of cubicles today as a way to force employees to conform, but the first cubicles gave each employee his or her own space to use as they pleased.
"Mad Money" host Jim Cramer compares Herman Miller and Steelcase, two furniture giants, to see which one is a more attractive pick.
Live OS connects Herman Miller furnishings to the cloud through sensors. This allows the desks to “sense” people and their preferences, resulting in a better experience overall.
America is mired in a productivity crisis. According to the most recent government data, American workers’ productivity over the last decade has grown at less than half the annual rate it did between 2000 and 2007. Last year, our collective level of productivity edged up just 0.2 percent. Compare that to the late 1990s, when productivity jumped an average of 2.8 percent a year.
