MONROE, Mich. – James B. Hackett has been named to the board of directors of La-Z-Boy. He will serve on the Audit and the Nominating and Governance committees. The appointment expands the board to 10 members.
HNI Corporation (HNI) had a good day on the market for Thursday February 11 as shares jumped 8.01% to close at $36.95. About 1.15 million shares traded hands on 11,654 trades for the day, compared with an average daily volume of n/a shares out of a total float of 42.71 million. After opening the trading day at $36.58, shares of HNI Corporation stayed within a range of $39.36 to $36.18.
EAST GREENVILLE, Pa. – As Knoll Chairman and CEO Andrew Cogan and CFO Charles Rayfield stated in their annual letter to shareholders, “2020 was a year of unimaginable challenge.” All important financial results declined for the fourth quarter and full year 2020.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Amkor Technology Inc. (NASD: AMKR) will replace HNI Corp. (NYSE: HNI) in the S&P MidCap 400 and HNI Corp will replace Virtusa Corp. (NASD: VRTU) in the S&P SmallCap 600 effective prior to the opening of trading on Tuesday, February 16. Baring Private Equity Asia is acquiring Virtusa in a deal that is expected to be completed soon pending final conditions. HNI is more representative of the small-cap market space.
With offices closed during the pandemic and many kids kept out of the classroom, families have scrambled to carve out functional remote-learning spaces in homes that weren’t designed for the job.
Faced with space constraints, acoustic challenges, and shortages of office furniture, even architects — experts in conceptualizing interior spaces with time and budget constraints — are struggling to keep up with the demands that school closures are putting on their small, open-concept homes.
GUANGZHOU, China – The 47th edition of the China International Furniture Fair takes place March 18-21 at the China Import and Export Fair Complex. An office and contract furniture and furniture machinery component will be held from March 28-31 at the same complex.
The president and CEO of West Michigan Center for Arts + Technology has a new role.
The Steelcase Foundation said last week it appointed Daniel Williams, the current leader of the West Michigan Center for Arts + Technology (WMCAT), to head up the foundation as its next president, effective Feb. 22. He is replacing the foundation’s previous president, Julie Ridenour, who announced her retirement last September.
2020 completely reshaped how and where we work, creating a global distributed workforce logging in from their couches, dining room tables, and home offices. But there is a new emerging workforce that is moving beyond the local Starbucks and working nomadically from exotic locations that allow them to choose to work from any environment they wish.
As the expert in designing healthy and productive workspaces (no matter where), Herman Miller (NASDAQ: MLHR) has partnered with the automaker Nissan to help nomadic workers travel and work in style. Nissan, one of the world’s most renowned auto companies, recently unveiled the 2021 Nissan NV350 Office Pod Concept, a concept car equipped with a full office set up that enables drivers to work from anywhere—all while sitting in a Herman Miller Cosm Chair.
ZEELAND, Mich. – The Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) named global design manufacturer Herman Miller, Inc. (NASDAQ:MLHR) among a select group of US companies to receive a perfect score on its 2021 Corporate Equality Index (CEI). This is Herman Miller’s 14th consecutive year with a 100% score on the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ+ workplace equality.
BIFMA has released an ANSI approved update to ANSI/BIFMA X6.4 – Occasional Use Seating. The 2021 edition is based upon ANSI/BIFMA X5.4-2020 Public & Lounge Seating.
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In January, BIFMA released an update to ANSI/BIFMA X6.4 – 2018 (Occasional Use Seating). The updated edition, now designated ANSI/BIFMA X6.4 – 2021, aids furniture manufacturers in addressing the continued rise in Americans’ weight by increasing the test loads to reflect the current 95th percentile male weight of 275 lbs.
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