KI’s Learning Space Workshops
Demand for office furniture has been stagnant in 2017. BIFMA reported that new orders increased 1.9% and sales (shipments) 2.2% through October. Looking at it through the kaleidoscope of individual companies the results are much different, with companies offering height adjustable desks or “collaborative” lounge furniture, for example, experiencing rapid growth while companies with greater investment in systems or other products out of the current vogue are suffering declines. But our industry is not one-dimensional. Contract furniture is not synonymous with office furniture. Some sectors are doing better than others and the demand for educational furniture is experiencing a very strong growth phase. Within the BIFMA community KI is clearly the company with the greatest breadth of products, covering the full range of typologies in that market from Pre-Kindergarten through graduate school. It also enjoys an excellent reputation among school districts, colleges and universities and as a consequence KI has …
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