HNI Corporation

HNI Corporation
Public
Traded as NYSE: HNI
S&P 400 Component
Founded Muscatine, Iowa, US, (1944)
Headquarters Muscatine, Iowa, US
Key people
 Stan A. Askren, Chairman & CEO
Products Furniture & Fireplaces
Website www.hnicorp.com

HNI Corporation (formerly HON Industries) is the second-largest office furniture manufacturer in the world in regard to revenues resulting from office segment sales,[1][2][3] behind Steelcase. Its headquarters is in Muscatine, Iowa U.S.A[4] HNI is the leading gas and wood burning fireplace manufacturer and marketer in the United States. [4] HNI's brands include The HON Company, Allsteel, Gunlocke, Paoli, Maxon, HBF, Sagus, Heatilator, Heat & Glo, Harman, Quadra-Fire, Lamex and OFM, Inc.[4] The company was founded in 1944 by engineer, C. Maxwell Stanley; advertising executive, Clem Hanson; and industrial designer, H. Wood Miller.[5]

On March 1, 2006, HNI Corporation completed the agreement, as announced January 13, 2006, to purchase Lamex, which is a privately held Chinese manufacturer and marketer of office furniture.[6]

On January 16, 2012 it was announced that HBF, located in Hickory, North Carolina, will be moving its entire Conference and Casegoods line to sister company Gunlocke, in Wayland, New York.

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  1. ↑ http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/viewer?action=view&cik=48287&accession_number=0000048287-13-000006&xbrl_type=v#
  2. ↑ http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/viewer?action=view&cik=66382&accession_number=0000066382-13-000032&xbrl_type=v#
  3. ↑ http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/viewer?action=view&cik=1050825&accession_number=0001050825-13-000083&xbrl_type=v#
  4. 1 2 3 Jeff Tecklenburg (2006-02-25). "Fortune magazine ranks HNI high". Muscatine Journal. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
  5. ↑ "HNI Corporation, History Timeline, 1944 - Present". 2004. Retrieved 2008-05-12.
  6. ↑ "HNI Corporation Acquires Leading Chinese Office Furniture Company".


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