MONROE, Mich. — While the company reported a 13% decrease in consolidated delivered sales for its third quarter ended Jan. 27, La-Z-Boy Inc. said sales were up 5% when compared with the company’s most recent pre-pandemic third quarter.
Contract furniture brand NaughtOne has marked an ‘exciting start to 2024’ following its move into its new headquarters following 18 months of renovation.
Experts in furnishing offices of the future for their clients around the world, the tables were turned on this project as NaughtOne designed a space for their own team, bringing to life its vision of “how the modern workplace can be”. Previously based in Knaresborough, the team now occupies a first floor space at Harrogate’s Central House.
DUBUQUE, Iowa — Flexsteel is taking its local digital marketing to a new level through its partnership with Promoboxx, a dealer marketing support platform.
The Promoboxx platform allows dealers to promote Flexsteel-approved marketing content across various social media channels, through email, dealer websites and mobile ads. Promoboxx houses a comprehensive library of brand assets, tailored to enhance dealer engagement with customers and boost their online visibility.
CHICAGO – Just a few weeks after it was acquired, used-office-furniture marketplace FurnitureFinders has been accepted as a member of 1% for the Planet, a global environmental network.
FurnitureFinders was acquired late January by Wurkwel Ventures, a private investment firm focused on the corporate office space. In the announcement, Wurkwel detailed its plans to make the company more environmentally friendly, with plans to introduce “planet first” best practices.
The summer before his junior year of high school, John Costello was looking through the “free” section of Craigslist when he stumbled upon a used set of office cubicles. For Costello, now a junior at the University of St. Thomas, those free cubicles would become first sale for his company, West Metro Solutions, which celebrated $1 million in sales in September.
West Metro Solutions is an environmentally conscious office furniture company that refurbishes and resells used office furniture across the U.S., keeping it out of the landfill, said Costello, who is studying entrepreneurship and finance at St. Thomas.
ITASCA, Ill. – A producer of workplace furnishings will shut down one of its segments and manufacturing plants this year.
The Illinois-based Fellowes Brands announced changes last week to its contract furniture division, formerly known as Trendway, which it acquired in 2019. Among the changes will be the closure of the Trendway production facility in Michigan later this year and the discontinuation of a portion of its furniture product offering, including systems, case goods, filing, storage and tables. Fellowes will continue to accept orders of these discontinued products until June and ship orders through July 2024.
DUBLIN, Ga. — On Feb. 9, 154 Flexsteel employees at the Dublin, Georgia, furniture factory were laid off. Likely permanently. The fate of another estimated 180 workers might be sealed at the end of the company’s fiscal fourth quarter later this year.
Flexsteel, the Dubuque, Iowa-based company has filed a WARN notice with the Georgia Department of Labor notice advising that 154 employees will be out of a job as of the Feb. 9 date.
DUBUQUE, Iowa – Flexsteel has announced a restructuring of its leadership team, including naming a new president and chief financial officer. Jerry Dittmer, previously president and CEO, remains CEO.
Filling Dittmer’s role of president is Derek Schmidt, who previously worked as the company’s chief operating officer for a little less than two years. Before that, he was chief financial officer for another two years. Prior to Flexsteel, he was senior vice president of Crescent Electric Supply Co. for two years and held executive management roles at office furniture supplier The Hon Co.
La-Z-Boy Incorporated, a global leader in the manufacture and retail of residential furniture, today released its fiscal year 2023 Sustainability Report: Delivering Sustainable Comfort.
Workplace Solutions Pvt Ltd, dedicated to providing tailor- made product solutions for Commercial Office Fit-outs, proudly unveiled MillerKnoll‘s largest showroom in India at Bengaluru, Ulsoor Road. MillerKnoll, a global collective of dynamic design brands, is well known world over for award-winning modern furniture designs and inventive furnishings that improve the human experience wherever people work, heal, learn and live.
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