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The company's current headquarters were built in 1983 on 901 44th St. SE in Grand Rapids, Michigan. [8] In 1989, Steelcase opened the pyramid-shaped Steelcase Inc. Corporate Development Center. The center contained ten research laboratories and workspaces meant to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration on product development . [ 10 ]
In 2021, the company had over 200 locations in eight countries with 15,000+ employees and sales of $8.6 billion. The company is listed in the Fortune 1000 list of America's largest corporations as of 2022, [ 1 ] and in the 2005 Forbes magazine's Platinum 400 ranking of the best-performing U.S. companies with annual revenue of more than $8 billion.
Lear Corporation was launched as American Metal Products in 1917 in Detroit, Michigan. At the time of its founding it was engaged in the manufacture of tubular, welded and stamped assemblies for the aircraft and automobile industries. [5] Lear grew during the 1980s and 1990s through a series of acquisitions.
The Steelcase Plants No. 2 and 3 complex contains four buildings: a single-story brick factory building with a monitor roof constructed in 1908, a four-story brick industrial loft-type factory building constructed between 1926 and 1930, a brick power plant also constructed in 1926, and a single-story concrete block building constructed in 1953.
X-Rite, Inc. is an American manufacturer of color measurement and management products, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. The company also creates products that regulate quality in the processing of film and x-rays.
EJ Group, formerly East Jordan Iron Works, is an American manufacturer of iron products, headquartered in East Jordan, Michigan.The company manufactures and distributes iron construction castings (Municipal castings), fabricated products, composite products, water distribution solutions, and other infrastructure access products for water, sewer, drainage, telecommunications, and utility ...
By 1917, the American Box Board Company was the second-largest industry in Grand Rapids. [ 2 ] The company continued operations during the Great Depression , employing about 550 people in Grand Rapids and 2500 people total in the US.