OFS Brands – Where Heritage underpins the Future

OFS Brands is a privately held, family owned business in which three generations of the family are actively involved. Talk to any family member about what’s important about the business, and two words come up repeatedly: people and wood. Not market share or net profit or any of the financial ratios, but people and wood. At 91, Phyllis Menke, the first of the aforementioned three generations, plays an important role in the company. She greets visitors to its headquarters in Huntingburg, IN, as well as many of the visitors to the NeoCon showroom each year. In her greeting to the Huntingburg campus, she talks about the company’s connection to wood and shares her memories of planting trees on what was a sustainability project before the word sustainability was in the common lexicon – the company tree farm her father stated out of concern for conservation and for access to wood …