The Business & Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Assn.has received approval by the ANSI on new lounge and public seating and vertical files standards.
Knoll Inc. announced it has agreed to acquire outdoor furniture manufacturer Richard Schultz Design Inc. The acquisition is expected to close by March 1. Knoll also announced it has acquired FilzFelt.
Haworth Inc. announced Jan. 19 the sale of its Italian operations to mutares AG, a management firm based in Munich, Germany. The acquisition includes the Castelli brand.
Contract furniture manufacturer The Gunlocke Co. received top honors from the United Way of the Southern Tier in upstate New York for its outstanding performance in United Way’s 2011 Community Campaign.
Don’t get me wrong I am not against open-plan work environments or even partial cubicles. But the trend toward glass-walled offices and meeting rooms has got to go.
Herman Miller, Inc. announced results for its second quarter ended Dec. 3, 2011. Brian Walker, CEO, said the results "cap a solid first half of fiscal 2012."
Highly successful in the office and educational furniture market, OFM co-founders Abel and Barbara Zalcberg have set their sites on another arena — hockey.
Foliot Furniture announced it will move the manufacturing of its contract furniture seating line from Greeneville, TN, to its plants in Las Vegas, NV, and St. Jerome, QUE.