Muscatine Allsteel sales office/showroom set to move to Chicago’s Fulton Market

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18 January, 2023

MUSCATINE — Allsteel officially announced that it would be moving its Muscatine sales office and showroom to Fulton Market in Chicago where it will act as the company’s newest Experience Center on Tuesday.

According to Allsteel officials, although this move will mark the closing of the Allsteel facility on the HNI campus, located at 2210 Second St., no jobs will be affected.

The Muscatine building that currently houses the sales office/showroom will be placed on the market in early 2023, while the new Experience Center is set to open in late spring 2023.

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Find out why Flexsteel is returning to Las Vegas Market

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17 January, 2023

LAS VEGAS —Flexsteel Inds. will be making its return to Las Vegas Market this month. The company has signed a four-year lease, showing a committed return to exhibiting at the Las Vegas Market.

“We’ve gone through a transformation and are investing in the retail channel,” said David Crimmins, vice president of sales. “The best place to engage is at market. Supporting our West Coast retailers is a big piece of that. We’re bullish with new products and new offerings for West Coast market.”

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WBD COMPLETES REFURB OF LEEDS OFFICE

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17 January, 2023

Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has completed a refurbishment of its Leeds office.

WBD’s 110-strong Leeds team is based on the sixth floor of No.1 Whitehall Riverside, Leeds, which has a floorplate of about 17,000 sq ft.

It has now moved back into the renovated space, which includes collaborative workspaces, larger break out areas as well as improved facilities and technology-enabled rooms.

The revamped office space aims to promote agile working and support WBD’s hybrid working model, which enables people to choose where they want to work.

Works also included significant BREEAM Sustainability Assessment Methods as well as updates to lighting and air conditioning in line with WBD’s carbon reduction targets.

Existing furniture was recycled and re-used where possible, with all other materials and new furniture specified from accredited sustainable suppliers.

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Saul Feldberg, Founder of Global Furniture Group, Dies at 87

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17 January, 2023

Saul Feldberg, who catalyzed a new era of office furnishings, recently passed away surrounded by his family at age 87. With a vision to create an efficient and affordable office chair, Feldberg founded Global Furniture Group in 1966 and later established Teknion, with the architecture and design community in mind, in 1983.

Under Feldberg’s leadership along with his sons Joel, president of Global Furniture Group, and David, CEO of Teknion, the companies have grown into international businesses that continue to profoundly shape how people move through and interact in interiors. Last year, Global Furniture Group was recognized as a 2022 Interior Design HiP Award honoree in the health and wellness: furniture and seating category for the brand’s Calidon seating and tables.

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Historic Holland House Announced As Latest incspaces Location

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16 January, 2023

UNITED KINGDOM, January 16, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — Leading serviced office provider incspaces are expanding their southern footprint with the opening of a new central London location, set over 10,965 sqft of the iconic Grade II listed Holland House on Bury Street. This opening marks the latest in a series of major moves by incspaces to expand their reach and provide more options for businesses looking for flexible workspace solutions.

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TECHO AND AHREND SET FOR COMPANY MERGER IN 2023

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17/01/2023

Techo UK is excited to announce it will be merging with its parent company, The Royal Ahrend Group, later this year and will assimilate the Techo brand into the UK business arm of the same company.

 This move mirrors a long standing strategy for Ahrend, which has been implemented throughout mainland Europe over the past two years. Techo UK has remained the last business unit of the Techo brand, following the move in 2021, where nine branches began operating under the name Ahrend as part of its international growth strategy aimed at global representation. The UK branch continued to trade under the Techo name owing to its record successes within the UK, over the past 6 years, and its strong customer relationships.

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Ahmedabad’s eclectic office displays theatric geometry engraved into materials

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16 January, 2023

Designed by Prashant Trivedi and Saumil Patel of Squelette Design, this office for a construction company uses materials and forms to convey the core company values.

Vishwakarma Office is a construction company. The client wished for aesthetic office interiors and a representation of the essence of their company. The brief was to design something eclectic using the core elements of their work pattern and orientations. Replicating profound elements and synchronizing them with interiors.

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Inscape files for creditor protection

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16 January, 2023

TORONTO – Inscape Corp., recently acquired by a subsidiary of Hillco Capital Ltd., announced on Jan. 12 that the Company and its subsidiaries, Inscape Inc. and Inscape (New York) Inc. have initiated creditor protection proceedings in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice under Canada’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA).

According to CTVNews.ca, more than 80 union workers with Inscape’s Holland Landing, Ontario, facilities arrived to work Friday morning, Jan. 13, to find out that they were permanently laid off. Of those, nearly a third had worked for the company for more than 40 years.

The Court granted Inscape Group’s application under the CCAA, which, among various other things: grants a stay of proceedings in favor of Inscape Group up to and including January 20, 2023; and appoints Alvarez and Marsal Canada Inc. (A&M) as a court-appointed monitor of Inscape Group.

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New green law sends sofas to the incinerator rather than landfill

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16 January, 2023

A change in the law will now see upholstered furniture such as sofas and chairs be recycled in a new way.

The legislation was brought in by the Environment Agency and DEFRA, it will aim to help protect the environment by incinerating the foam found in these items. So far there can be pollution and damage to aquatic environments when foam in upholstered furniture that contains a fire-retardant product, known as persistent organic pollutants (POP’s), is taken to landfill.

The product, which is typically found in sofas, armchairs, upholstered dining chairs, office chairs, bean bags and upholstered/padded furniture, must now be incinerated instead.

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