Is Herman Miller involved in office equipment technology?
That will be an area of growing connectivity going forward. Certainly as we look at our own research, we’re seeing many more opportunities emerging with the advent of new technologies. We’re actively developing our own internal capabilities and we’re looking externally for both design talent and collaborative resources for new technology. Herman Miller’s commitment to design quality extends to print communications as well. For decades your annual report, designed inhouse by Steve Frykholm, has been an award-winner. How is your report evolving? We want to make sure that any vision, any product that we produce is relevant to the audience and the times. Annual reports produced before the Web were targeted to investors and analysts who probably don’t find printed annuals as relevant today because they can get a lot of that data online. But we believe our customers and employees still read our annual report, so last year we did a summary annual with my letter directed more to customers, emp
