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Globe-Wernicke was formed as a result of the Cincinnati based Globe Files Company (est. in 1882) purchasing the Minneapolis based Wernicke Company, founded in 1893 by Otto Wernicke, in 1899. The company is best known for their high-end bookcases , Desks , and other office furniture .
Bernhardt Furniture Company was founded in 1889 by John M. Bernhardt. Until the 1980s, the company was vertically integrated, having a veneer mill, lumber yard and numerous kilns as well as adhesives and particleboard plants. By 1981, Bernhardt began sourcing globally and now has offices in four Asian countries, staffed with 50 employees.
In 1978, Modernform Home Decorative Products was established as the first company of Modernform Group to import and distribute furniture fittings and accessories from Europe. [ 7 ] On 3 April 1980, Modernform Group was established as Modernform Furniture to manufacture and distribute office furniture under brand Modernform Workplace .
HNI Corporation is one of the largest office furniture manufacturers in the world in regard to revenues resulting from office segment sales. [2] [3] [4] HNI is also the world's leading hearth products company, manufacturing and marketing gas, electric, wood and biomass burning fireplaces, inserts, stoves, facings and accessories.
The company was founded as a housewares manufacturer in 1932 by Theodore Baumritter and his brother-in-law Nathan S. Ancell. They bought a bankrupt furniture factory in Beecher Falls, Vermont in 1936 and adopted the name "Ethan Allen" for its early-American furniture introduced in 1939, after the Vermont Revolutionary War leader Ethan Allen.
The company began in 1911 as International Shoe Company with the merger of Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe Company and Peters Shoe Company. In 1966, the company changed its name to Interco as the result of diversification, and once the company exited the shoe business, adopted the name Furniture Brands International .
The company is the licensed manufacturer of furniture designed by architects and designers such as Harry Bertoia, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, Florence Knoll, Frank Gehry, Charles Gwathmey, Maya Lin, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, and Lella and Massimo Vignelli, [3] under the company's KnollStudio division.
Paoli, Incorporated is a manufacturer of wood office furniture. It was founded in 1926, and is located in Orleans, Indiana. As an operating company of HNI Corporation, Paoli’s sister companies are The HON Company, Allsteel, Gunlocke, Heatilator, Heat & Glo, and Quadra-Fire. [1] The company has showrooms across the United States.