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Herman Miller, Inc., creates great places to work through the design, manufacture and distribution of furnishings, interior products, and related services. Through problem-solving research and design, the company seeks to develop innovative solutions to real needs in working, healing, learning, and living environments. Net sales of $262,000 in 1923 grew to $25 million in 1970, the year the company went public; net sales in fiscal year 2004 were $1.34 billion.

The founder, D.J. De Pree, committed Herman Miller to "modern" furniture in 1936 partly because he saw a moral dimension to Gilbert Rohde's clean designs, honest materials, and lack of ornamentation. In 1984, a major impetus behind Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick's Equa chair was a desire to give a reasonably priced, comfortable, good-looking chair to everybody in offices--not just the higher-ups.

These are but two examples of some of the best work done at Herman Miller. The people and the designers that Herman Miller employ are concerned with larger issues of humanity and equality and bettering the world we work in. What arrives on the truck is furniture. What went into the truck was an amalgam of what they believe in: innovation, design, operational excellence, smart application of technology, and social responsibility.

2006 Awards

DiversityInc Magazine names Herman Miller one of its Top 10 corporations for supplier diversity

Herman Miller ranked as the "Most Admired" company in its industry in Fortune magazine's annual survey

Business Ethics ranks Herman Miller, Inc. among the "100 Best Corporate Citizens" in America, and, in 2002, first among all ranked companies for "Service to the Environment"

Herman Miller earns Architecture Magazine's 2005 ACE Awards, earning top ranking from architects in each of the product groups in which it competes--furniture systems, seating, and casegoods.

Herman Miller is one of 16 companies--and the lone representative in the contract furniture industry--to be included on a pair of prestigious and rigorous indexes for social responsibility. Herman Miller has been included in KLD's Domini 400 Social Index (DSI) since 1990, and now is also included in the KLD Global Climate 100 Index (GC100)