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HNI Corporation Provides Update on Q2 Order Trends, Announces Participation in Virtual Investor Events

HNI Corporation (NYSE: HNI) today provided updates on its response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis, recent order trends, and debt level. The Corporation also announced its participation in multiple upcoming virtual investor events and introduced a new investor presentation. Pandemic Response Update “Our teams remain focused on protecting the health of our members while […]

Production returns to the Bisley’s Newport factory

Newport-based office equipment manufacurer Bisley has restarted work at its factory in Caswell Way on the Reevesland Industrial Estate. The firm, like many businesses, has been affected due to Covid-19 and the government’s announcement for all non-essential businesses to close or to work from home over the last nine weeks.

Major London operator buys business services firm out of administration

Smethwick- and Telford-based OfficeTeam has been bought by Paragon Group, after its parent company Spicers Office Team (SPOT) went into administration. SPOT appointed administrators last month, when its private equity owner Better Capital announced it was looking to find a buyer for the business. Paragon, a provider of customer communications, identification, graphics and business services, announced […]

Spicers Ireland appoints official liquidators

Following last week’s announcement that Spicers UK and OfficeTeam have filed a notice of intention to go into administration, it is with regret that we inform you that on 1st May 2020 a petition was presented before the High Court to wind up Spicers (Ireland) Limited and appoint official liquidators.  

Largest FDMC 300 contract furniture companies post sales gains

The office and contract furniture manufacturers had another strong year, with most posting solid gains in sales. Overall in 2019, sales for the FDMC 300 group of companies grew 4.5 percent, to reach $57.171 billion. This group of cabinet, millwork, furniture and store fixture manufacturers recorded an eighth consecutive year of sales expansion in 2019, […]

Stronger Together: How the A&D Community is Helping Others

As the novel coronavirus quickly rattled the world, forcing people to change the way they live and work indefinitely, the architecture and design community sprang into action—finding ways to help others, even as they faced their own respective challenges. From donating textiles for the creation of medical masks, to outfitting field hospitals in New York […]

Littleton furniture manufacturing business begins making plexiguards for offices

LITTLETON, Colo.– It looks like normal business at Xybix Systems in Littleton. “We manufacture furniture for 911 dispatch centers all over North America,” Xybix President Barry Carson said. But not all is normal. “No, not the plexiglass. That’s a new addition,” Carson added. The COVID-19 pandemic presented a new need for its customers, who are […]