At Steelcase, our purpose is to unlock human promise by creating great experiences
at work, wherever work happens, and in environments that include education and
healthcare. Through our family of brands that include Steelcase®, Coalesse®,
Designtex®, PolyVision® and Turnstone®, we offer a comprehensive
portfolio of solutions that support the social, economic and sustainability
needs of people and are inspired by the insights gained from our human-centered
research process. We are a globally integrated enterprise, headquartered in
Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A., Steelcase was founded in 1912 and became publicly
traded in 1998, and our stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under
the symbol “SCS”.
Our growth strategy continues to focus on translating our research-based insights
into products, applications and experiences that will help the world’s
leading organizations amplify the performance of their people, teams and enterprise.
We help our customers create workplace destinations that augment human interaction
by supporting the physical, cognitive and emotional needs of their people, while
also optimizing the value of their real estate investments. Over the past several
years, we have continued to invest in research and product development and have
launched new products, applications and experiences designed to address the
significant trends that are impacting the workplace, such as global integration,
disruptive technologies, worker mobility, distributed teams and the need for
enhanced collaboration and innovation.
We also continue to focus on growth through leveraging our global scale. Our
global scale allows us to provide local differentiation, as we serve customers
around the globe through significant sales, manufacturing and administrative
operations in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. We remain committed to
our strategy as a globally integrated enterprise and growing our presence in
emerging markets alongside our global customers and where we believe we can
serve the needs of workers and organizations.
We market our products and services primarily through a network of independent
and company-owned dealers and also sell directly to end-use customers. We extend
our reach with a limited presence in retail and web-based sales channels.
Our brands provide an integrated portfolio of furniture settings, user-centered
technologies and interior architectural products across a range of price points.
Our furniture portfolio includes panel-based and freestanding furniture systems
and complementary products such as storage, tables and ergonomic worktools.
Our seating products include task chairs which are highly ergonomic, seating
that can be used in collaborative or casual settings and specialty seating for
specific vertical markets such as healthcare and education. Our technology solutions
support group collaboration by integrating furniture and technology. Our interior
architectural products include full and partial height walls and doors. We also
offer services designed to reduce costs and enhance the performance of people,
wherever they work. Among these services are workplace strategy consulting,
lease origination services, furniture and asset management and hosted spaces.
Steelcase
The Steelcase brand takes our insights from research and delivers high performance,
sustainable work environments while striving to be a trusted partner. Being
a trusted partner means understanding and helping our customers and partners
who truly seek to elevate their performance. The Steelcase brands core customers
are leading organizations (such as corporations, healthcare organizations, colleges/universities
and government entities) that are often large with ever-changing complex needs
and have an increasingly global reach. We strive to meet their diverse needs
while minimizing complexity by using a platform approach—from product
components to common processes—wherever possible.
Steelcase sub-brands include:
Steelcase Health, which is focused on creating healthcare environments that
enable empathy, empowerment and connection for patients, care partners, and
providers engaged in the healthcare experience.
Steelcase Education, which is focused on helping schools, colleges and universities
create the most effective, rewarding and inspiring "active learning"
environments to meet the evolving needs of students and educators.
Coalesse
Coalesse offers a collection of furnishings that expresses a new freedom at
work. It is part of the rapidly growing crossover and ancillary market—homes
and offices, meeting rooms and social spaces, private retreats and public places—and
is addressing the fluid intersections of work and life where boundaries are
collapsing and creativity is increasing.
Designtex
Designtex offers applied surface solutions that enhance environments and is
a leading resource for applied surface knowledge, innovation and sustainability.
Designtex products are premium fabrics and surface materials designed to enhance
seating, walls, work stations and floors and can provide privacy, way-finding,
motivation, communications and artistic expression.
PolyVision
PolyVision is the worlds leading supplier of ceramic steel surfaces for use
in educational institutions and architectural panels or special applications
for commercial or infrastructure applications.
Turnstone
Turnstone was created based on the belief that the world needs more successful
entrepreneurs and small businesses and that great spaces to work can help that
happen. Turnstone makes it easier for these companies to create insight-led
places to work through our dealer channel or using web-based tools.