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	Herman Miller -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Herman Miller, Inc. is an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (Someone who manufactures something) manufacturer of office furniture and equipment.
		Many of Herman Miller's products are designed to be ecologically sound, and many are good examples of (additional info and facts about ecodesign) ecodesign Techniqes for achieving sustainability include saving materials, energy efficient manufacturing, recycled content, and recyclable content, including design for disassembly.
		Herman Miller helped fund the start of the US Green Building Council, and hired architect William McDonough to design them a factory incorporating (additional info and facts about green design) green design principles.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/herman_miller.htm (236 words)

	Encyclopedia: Herman Miller
		Herman Miller, Inc. is an American manufacturer of office furniture and equipment.
		Many of Herman Miller's products are designed to be ecologically sound, and many are good examples of ecodesign techniques for achieving sustainability include saving materials, energy efficient manufacturing, recycled content, and recyclable content, including design for disassembly.
		Herman Miller helped fund the start of the US Green Building Council, and hired architect William McDonough to design them a factory incorporating green design principles.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Herman-Miller (557 words)

	PIXELSURGEON \| Reviews \| Hardware \| Herman Miller Mirra Chair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Herman Miller first introduced the Mirra with a “Triflexe Back” which in our language looks like plastic, but in fact, it’s actually made of a polymer that has exceptional torsion flexibility.
		Herman Miller chairs are in a field all by themselves on how they flex with your movements.
		Herman Miller has a 12 year warranty on it, which is exceptional.
	www.pixelsurgeon.com /reviews/review.php?id=439 (821 words)

	IBM case study on Herman Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Herman Miller, a 79-year-old company that designs and manufactures innovative interior furnishings for offices and homes — including the hugely coveted Aeron chair —; needed a way to allow customers and dealers to uniquely configure products and transfer the resulting customized designs to one of its eight manufacturing facilities quickly and without errors.
		Herman Miller selected Lotus Notes and Domino, from IBM Corporation, as the platform for this project because of Lotus Notes’ proven synchronization capabilities, which enabled the dealers to work with customers at their own facilities, in a disconnected mode.
		Herman Miller executives funded the project with the strong belief that a change in the order-management process would be a major competitive advantage.
	www-306.ibm.com /software/success/cssdb.nsf/CS/AKLR-56HKWD?OpenDocument&Site=software (3805 words)

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		Herman Miller, the world's second largest designer, manufacturer and distributor of high quality, high performance office furnishings, is known first for its products and second for its industry-leading reliability and on-time delivery.
		Herman Miller searched the industry for a tool that would help them with their reorganization challenge.
		Herman Miller is widely recognized both for its innovative products and business practices, including the use of industry-leading, customer-focused technology.
	www.quest.com /success_stories/herman_miller.asp (851 words)

	Herman Miller (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Herman Miller (writer) - a Hollywood writer and producer
		Herman Miller (office equipment) - an American manufacturer of office furniture and equipment
		Herman Miller (conlanger) - created a language for a computer game series
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herman_Miller (110 words)

	Herman Miller Gets Technical [Fool.com: Motley Fool Take] June 8, 2005
		Herman Miller feels that the division is key to its goal of double-digit growth over the next five years.
		Herman Miller has evolved from a home furnishings maker in 1923 to its current business line, but while its designs may be sleeker and more innovative, furniture remains the company's focus.
		Herman Miller's success ultimately depends on the strength of the economies in which its products are sold.
	www.fool.com /News/mft/2005/mft05060805.htm (482 words)

	PF Online Feature Article - Herman Miller Adds Powder Coating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While Herman Miller often used high-pressure laminates to finish the medium-density fiberboard (MDF) used to construct its office furniture, the company was unable to use high-pressure laminates with the Resolve line.
		And, Herman Miller has learned that it definitely needs a higher quality of MDF to withstand the heat generated by the UV curing process.
		Herman Miller estimates that in the reclaim application, it gets 50% first-pass transfer efficiency and greater than 95% reclaim efficiency, which means that there is very little waste.
	www.pfonline.com /articles/060202.html (1278 words)

	Baseline: Herman Miller Reassembles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Herman Miller spokesman Mark Schurman says the company is too busy trying to demonstrate a sustained return to profitability for its executives to answer such questions.
		The big contract furniture makers—Steelcase, Herman Miller and Haworth—also are under pressure from lower-price manufacturers such as HON Industries, which reported a comparatively modest decline of 12% in sales in the first nine months of this year and a 2.5% drop in its most recent quarter.
		The rate at which Herman Miller converts inventory to sales in a given year dropped from 27 turns in 2000 to 21 this year, but that's nearly twice the performance of Steelcase, which saw inventory turns drop from 24 to 12 over roughly the same period.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdbln/is_200301/ai_ziff36023 (1368 words)

	Herman Miller - for the Home - Recent Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Herman Miller has formed an alliance with Finnish furniture maker Artek to market its popular Aalto line of modern furnishings in the U.S. The line, named for designer/architect Alvar Aalto, is recognized worldwide for its fine aesthetics and functionality.
		Herman Miller, Inc., a leading global provider of office furniture and services, today announced that it has formed an alliance with Finnish furniture manufacturer Artek to market the company's popular Aalto line of modern furnishings in the United States.
		Herman Miller will be the exclusive U.S. distributor of Aalto furnishings through Herman Miller for the Home (HMH).
	www.hmhome.com /CDA/SSA/News/Story/0,1585,a8-c407-n177,00.html (520 words)

	FM:Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Herman Miller creates great places to work by researching, designing, manufacturing, and distributing innovative interior furnishings that support companies, organizations, and individuals all over the world.
		Herman Miller has been headquartered in Zeeland, Michigan, since their founding in 1923.
		Herman Miller’s west Michigan facilities are centered on five campuses, housing quite diverse office, warehouse and manufacturing functions.
	www.fmsystems.com /knowledge_case03.html (1003 words)

	Herman Miller Office Chairs - Levenger.com
		Our herman miller office chairs are ready in a wide range of sizes and styles, so you are sure to find some herman miller office chairs that are an ideal match for all your business plans.
		Sleek, comfortable and always contour specific, your Herman Miller office chairs will encourage a better way to look at you finest office efficiency, and provide the support you need for the long road of success.
		The timeless style of herman miller office chairs is reborn every time you redesign the look and feel of your office space, so in each of the herman miller office chairs you will receive a permanent fixture that is welcomed into any design.
	www.levenger.com /pagetemplates/product/content.asp?params=category=559-658\|level=2-3\|pageid=4274 (247 words)

	Tom Vanderbilt on Herman Miller \| Metropolis Magazine \| April 2001
		Herman Miller's first ever television commercial goes like this: A group of twenty-somethings is hanging around in a loft, empty save for computers on the floor.
		Herman Miller is betting that its brand, as well as manufacturing and distribution know-how, will allow it to succeed on the Internet, where so many have failed.
		Herman Miller--which historically has been an innovator in office furniture design (e.g., the open-plan Action Office from the 1960s, chairs ranging from the 1976 Ergon to the 1994 Aeron)--is attempting with Red to get back to its roots: the days of the $14.25 Eames plywood chair, when design was about responding to problems.
	metropolismag.com /html/content_0401/enterprise (1552 words)

	Humble Throne - Assessing Herman Miller's downscale Aeron—the Mirra. By Jessie Scanlon
		Earlier this month, Herman Miller unveiled a new chair, the Mirra, at NeoCon, the annual Lollapalooza of the contract furniture industry.
		There's good reason for all the buzz: This is the first office throne to come from Herman Miller since the Aeron, which has sold millions since it was introduced in 1994, becoming the best-selling office chair in history and earning a place in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
		Herman Miller hired a small German company called Studio 7.5 to design the chair; the group initially started developing an innovative seat back that could scale from a small woman's narrow frame to a tall man's broader shoulders.
	www.slate.com /id/2085064 (941 words)

	herman miller chair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Herman Miller Chair old postage stamp Three or four went off to find instruments with which to break it down and meanwhile the rest of the attacking farce kept the garrison blockaded.
		Herman Miller Chair nike warm ups Placed apart, overcome by the reaction which followed the first moments of their struggle against the negroes, they no longer made a movement.
		Herman Miller Aeron Chair nursery songs It is the high cost of living that has caused the sickness and death of Carsonism.
	www.chairsiture.com /hermanmillerchair (1170 words)

	Baseline: Herman Miller's Conflicted Dealers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Herman Miller CEO Michael Volkema originally saw the Web as a risk worth taking, to serve some customers well in a new way.
		Herman Miller never disclosed financial figures for the RED division, but Chief Financial Officer Beth Nickels said—when RED was closed down —that it had saved Herman Miller $4 million per year in operating expenses.
		Herman Miller dealers say they never felt that they were given short shrift.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdbln/is_200301/ai_ziff36018 (1053 words)

	WetFeet.com > Herman Miller Inc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Herman Miller is a leading global manufacturer of office, residential, and health care furniture.
		In the 1960s, Herman Miller introduced the open plan furniture system that has since revolutionized the way offices are laid out.
		Herman Miller has received countless awards for its high-quality products and design expertise, and its furniture has been collected by major museums.
	www.wetfeet.com /asp/companyprofiles.asp?companypk=1960 (194 words)

	Herman Miller Reassembles
		While Herman Miller was able to report profits for the first two quarters of its 2003 fiscal year, EVA was -$5.6 million for the first quarter and -$4.3 million for the second quarter.
		Now Herman Miller is one of the leading makers of "systems furniture" in which wall panels and desks feature built-in accommodations for network cabling and electrical wiring.
		Herman Miller dealers tend to express a higher degree of loyalty to z-Axis, which they say is easier to use and does a better job of enforcing rules about how different pieces of furniture should be purchased together, than Giza or similar tools.
	www.baselinemag.com /print_article/0,3668,a=36023,00.asp (9866 words)

	Herman Miller Mirra Chair Levenger.Com
		Every piece of Herman Miller-designed furniture is known worldwide for its attention to detail and unsurpassed ergonomic function, now this legendary and innovative company has joined forces with Levenger to bring you the Herman Miller Mirra chair.
		The Herman Miller Mirra chair is a blend of high tech modern design and old-fashioned creature comforts, a combination that will please even the most disparate tastes in your office.
		One working day spent in the Herman Miller Mirra chair and you might not want to get up and go home to your old favorite chair—but you easily can select a Herman Miller Mirra chair for the home as well, and all your bases will remain safely covered.
	www.levenger.com /bnt.asp?bid=44538 (265 words)

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		The failure of Herman Miller or their dealers to timely notify the Director of Facilities Management of any such projects shall result in a 20% penalty assessed to Herman Miller based on the total cost of the project.
		Herman Miller does not warrant natural variations in wood grain or figure or the presence of character marks; changes in wood color due to aging or exposure to light; marks, scars, or wrinkles occurring naturally in leather; veins, marks, voids, fissures, or cracks found naturally in stone.
		In addition, Herman Miller does not warrant defects or failure resulting from normal wear and tear; the matching of colors, grains, or textures of natural materials; the colorfastness or the matching of colors of textiles, including a exact match to cuttings or to swatch cards.
	da.state.ks.us /purch/contracts/ContractData/30880.doc (7100 words)

	Reinventing Herman Miller
		Miller started a new division to run the plant: SQA, which stands for ''simple, quick, affordable.'' Key to the effort: linking all sales and purchasing operations via the Internet--something Herman Miller's competitors are only now starting to do.
		Miller's revenues are expected to hit $1.9 billion in fiscal 2000, ending in May--a 90% increase from 1995, and up 8% from 1999.
		Until the system was introduced, Stone had to wait for a Miller employee to fax her a list of what the plant had received and then reconcile that by hand--a time-consuming process that meant any missing parts might not arrive at Herman Miller until midafternoon.
	www.businessweek.com /2000/00_14/b3675047.htm (2144 words)

	Herman Miller - for Business - Aeron Chairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Herman Miller turned to designers Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf to design a totally new kind of chair.
		Herman Miller for the Home Stages Revival of the Classics at ICFF 2005
		Herman Miller's Aeron chair named among elite "Designs of the Decade"
	www.hermanmiller.com /CDA/SSA/Product/0,1592,a10-c440-p8,00.html (1537 words)

	Herman Miller, Inc. - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
		A top US manufacturer of office furniture, the firm is known for developing quality, innovative designs for corporate, government, home office, and health care environments.
		Herman Miller's products include ergonomic devices, filing and storage systems, freestanding furniture, lighting, seating, textiles, and wooden casegoods.
		There are 23 competitors for Herman Miller; see more.
	www.hoovers.com /herman-miller/--ID__13676--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml (353 words)

	Amazon.com: Herman Miller : The Purpose of Design: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The rest is history: their continuing collaboration with some of the giants of modern design has made Herman Miller synonymous with quality in design.
		Herman Miller examines the company's powerful contributions by looking at the problems that design can solve and how creative thinking can benefit the world.
		John Berry was Vice President of Corporate Communications at Herman Miller for sixteen years, working closely with the Eames Office, George Nelson, and other major designers.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0847826546?v=glance (585 words)

	Herman Miller ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A classically beautiful young woman, Lee Miller is discovered by Condé Nast, hits the cover of Vogue and is immortalised by Steichen, Hoynigen-Huene, Horst and other famous photographs.
		As muse, Miller was a rare inspiration, equally comfortable and forceful in front of and behind the camera and canvas.
		In the introduction to Jerry Uelsmann, Twenty-Five Years: A Retrospective, by James L. Enyeart, Jerry Uelsmann is described as "one of that select group of artists who can be said to have altered the very language of their discipline." A pione...
	www.wwar.com /masters/m/miller-herman.html (1113 words)

	Herman Miller Collection
		Herman Miller, Inc., based in Zeeland, Michigan, began in 1923 as a manufacturer of residential furniture.
		Many famous designers, from Charles and Ray Eames to George Nelson, have created furniture for the company, and they are famous for innovations in design and ergonomics such as "Marshmallow Sofa" and "Molded Plywood Chair".
		In 1988, Herman Miller, Inc. established the Herman Miller Consortium to share the historical product collection that had been accumulating as part of Herman Miller's corporate archives in Zeeland, Michigan.
	dlxs.lib.wayne.edu /cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=hmcc;page=index;g=all (200 words)

	Herman Miller News
		Herman Miller News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Herman Miller, Inc., announced at its Global Sales Conference that it has entered into a marketing alliance agreement with Bretford, Inc., a manufacturer of award-winning furniture products for training,...
		The system will be introduced in June by Sonare Technologies, a new subsidiary of Herman Miller, the maker of the Aeron chair, as part of an effort to move beyond office furniture.
	www.topix.net /com/mlhr (853 words)

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