Herman Miller Inc. is buying Hong Kong office furniture maker POSH Office Systems Ltd. for an undisclosed amount in order to gain access to the Chinese market and broaden its geographic reach.

via Herman Miller to buy POSH Office Systems – BusinessWeek.

Herman Miller have made an clever purchase to expand across to the far east by buying this Hong Kong manufacturer.  Aside from office furniture, POSH makes and distributes freestanding furniture, seating, and filing and storage systems, similar to the Herman Miller – so it will be interesting to see if they keep it running the sale, or streamline and combine the 2 companies over time.

In March 2011, Complete Group kindly donated a selection of Office Furniture to a new local startup charity – Fusion Healthy Living Centre in Parkwood.

via Complete Office Charity Furniture Donation – complete group, complete office, office furniture.

Great piece of charity from Maidstone based Complete Office who have provided a new startup charity with a range of office furniture.  In honour of there charitable efforts we thought we would help them pass on the news around the UK office industry.

South Wales office furniture producer Triumph has gone into administration through insolvency firm FRP Advisory, who will try to find a buyer for the company as a going concern

via Legals: Weak public sector demand forces collapse of £22m furniture manufacturer Triumph | The Furnishing Report.

Furniture manufacturer Triumph, or TBS as its known to some, have officially gone into administration this weekend which is bad news for the 110 people who have been made redundant with immediate effect.

Triumph make office furniture and have been a customer of ours for years, so we hope that a buyer can be found soon and bring the company back from the brink as soon as possible.

More than a quarter of a million pounds of taxpayers money was spent furnishing the new office of the watchdog that enforces on MPs expenses. The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority splashed £293,000 on loungers, chairs, stools and cabinets for its new Portland House headquarters in London

via They STILL dont get it: MPs expenses watchdog lavishes £300,000 of taxpayers money on office furniture | Mail Online.

This is just awful!  only a few months after the Government managed to spend thousands on Office Furniture for one office, you would have thought they would think twice about spending again!

BUSINESSES in North Wales have been urged to take advantage of financial opportunities ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games.

Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones addressed a conference at Wales’ Millennium Stadium yesterday, encouraging entrepreneurs to take advantage of remaining deals – valued in excess of £700million – to supply a range of goods and services to the Games.Attended by over 150 Welsh businesses, delegates learned more about the wide-range of contracts that are still available. Divided across eight categories and described as particularly suitable for small and medium-sized companies, they range from supplying catering equipment to sporting equipment, from mobility vehicles to office furnitur

via Golden opportunity for businesses in Wales to capitalise on 2012 Olympics – News – Business – Daily Post North Wales.

Alot of companies are gearing up for business now that the building work for the 2012 Olympics is starting to get off the ground, and its no surprise that the Welsh government are pushing these deals as Wales has a very high manufacturing industry – in fact quiet a few Office Furniture companies that we supply are based there.

1. The most popular use of folding tables is for weddings – and no wedding is complete without a reception.   It is becoming a lot more common to hold wedding receptions in gardens using marquees keeping venue costs down.  Any marquee for events such as this will require furniture, and more often than not these are heavy duty folding plastic tables with simple table cloths to cover the hardwearing surface.  Folding plastic tables are often made of a steel structure which makes them ideal for larger tables to sit more people around.

1. Another popular use for folding tables is corporate events such as conferences and exhibitions.  Plastic tables with folding legs are easy to stack on top of each other, so they become perfect for transporting to exhibitions and trade fairs.  They can be assembled in seconds and due to the durable nature of the tables they can have a variety of uses from displaying products on or used to have meetings with clients.

1. Garden parties and BBQ’s are also great places for folding tables to be used.  Folding tables can be picked up and moved with ease, as well as being left out in the rain which is handy in the UK! The great thing about the durability of these folding tables is the wipe clean surface, so after a BBQ you can quickly wipe away all the leftovers with ease.

Howdens business model is built on supplying small scale builders who in turn service the residential kitchens market.

via Kitchens: Gross margin focus drives Howden profits | The Furnishing Report.

Great end of year results for the trade kitchen supplier Howdens.  They seem to have found the way to make good margin is by dealing with the people who are fitting the kitchens and letting them deal with the end user.

They aim to have 650 stores nationwide, very impressive!

The height of your cabinet doors as well as there placement will determine the number of concealed hinges that will be installed in each door.

via How to Fit and Install a Concealed Hinge | DoItYourself.com.

This is a nice little do it yourself guide to fitting concealed hinges for kitchen cabinets.  It is basic, but it covers the places to drill the cup holes and how to determine how many hinges you will need.

Places to shop for a home office furniture desk incorporate Office Max, Office Depot, Furniture Row or Staples. Compare prices as well as options to what you found online

via » Tips in Selecting Home Office Furniture Desk end the recession.

Nice little tips on things to consider when purchasing a desk for a home office – the main idea being to go and try out they styles you like and then have a look at office furniture websites online!

“Deskspace”, its new product line, features interchangeable and adjustable frames, poles, legs and beams to maximise office space.

via TODAYonline | Business | Enterprise | Maximising Deskspace.

More and more companies are looking at space saving designs for desking systems in offices.  This Singapore company have developed a system that claims to reuse 70% of the same components with multiple desk spaces – interesting idea!

We have offered beam and cantilever desking systems for a long time now, with the ability to have multiple desks with the use of a small number of legs, so it will be interesting to see if this companies way of desking will compare.