11.26.07 | At the recent OFDA Conference and Exhibition, a small panel of manufacturer representatives answered a number of question about the state of the industry and concerning issues that are currently on the minds of dealers. The panel comprised Franco Bianchi, president and CEO of Haworth, James Keane, president of the Steelcase Group, and Daniel Miller, Executive Vice President of Kimball International and president of Kimball Furniture.

3.26.07 | These are heady times for Keilhauer. The Toronto-based, family-owned company designs, engineers, and manufactures seating including task and executive chairs, lounge seating and complementary tables, side chairs, and stacking chairs, with $70-million-plus (more than $60-million U.S.) in annual sales. In November, Keilhauer launched Sittris, its new healthcare company, at the Healthcare Design.06 conference in Chicago’s Hyatt Regency Hotel, and promptly won a Nightingale Product Award for its debut bariatric armchair. 

3.26.07 | It’s starting: The warm-up to NeoCon 2007. Edward F. Weller, III announced the founding of a new furniture company, The Weller Group USA, a boutique resource for well-designed executive office and hospitality furniture. The collection will be launched at NeoCon 2007.

10.9.06 | There are many products in the marketplace. But design and design ideas have no limits. So when a design-based company such as Agati comes along, designers tend to be interested.

10.9.06 | What’s in an acronym? At IIDEX/NeoCon Canada, we caught up with a beaming Mogens Smed in front of the Mondrianesque façade on the booth for his Calgary-based company, DIRTT, which stands for Doing It Right This Time. (Will the next one be called DIPP, Do It Perfect This Time. Just kidding!)”