Steelcase is a global, public company that offers three core elements of office environments: interior architecture, furniture and technology. The following presentation provides our findings of how Steelcase incorporates Triple Bottom Line elements to its product offerings.

1. Steelcase

2. Introduction
Steelcase was founded in 1912 by a few people with a strong commitment to integrity
and doing the right thing for their customers, employees, business partners,
associates and neighbors.
Steelcase is a global, publicly traded company leading our industry with fiscal 2012
revenue of approximately $2.75 billion and nearly 10,000 employees worldwide.

3. During fiscal year 2013, Steelcase Inc. reported a net income of $38.8 million, or $0.30 per share. Despite
goodwill impairment charges and restructuring costs that reduced earnings by well over half, core operating
performance continued to improve. Sales rose for a third consecutive year, to $2.9 billion.

4. Steelcase believes economic value
creation should be sought by
reducing consumption, polluting
less, rethinking production systems
and investing in communities.
Four aspects that Steelcase is keen
to cover include:
● Economic Value Creation
● Customer Satisfaction
● Community Aid
● Shareholder Value
Profit/Economical

5. Steelcase has recently focused
efforts on producing new product
lines like the Gesture chair, the
V.I.A.™ architectural portfolio and
further expanded its Coalesse®
brand into European markets.
New Products

6. On its 101st year anniversary,
Steelcase launched a new
Innovation Center at its
headquarters in Grand Rapids,
Michigan. This center will serve as
a global hub for the design and
engineering teams to spark more
insight-driven innovation.
A Global Innovation Hub

7. Steelcase makes it a priority to support communities within need of their resources through donating business time, employee
talents, and corporate treasures to programs that focus on their core values, which include community and economic development,
education, human services, arts and culture, and sustainability.
People/Social

8. Internationally, Steelcase partners with Arzu, a
non-profit organization that empowers Afghan
women weavers by providing rent-to-own looms
and materials to craft rugs. Weavers must sign a
contract to take literacy classes and send their
children to school until the age of 15.

9. Steelcase partners with 2Fysh to
produce hand-made slipcovers,
providing wages and sustained
employment for the widowed and
single women in Kenya who
make them, and are desperately
trying to improve their lives.

10. Environmental Value Creation
Preserving and renewing
the planet is a catalyst for
innovation in Steelcase’s
business as well as their
product portfolio.

11. Material Chemistry
● Steelcase offers Cradle to
Cradle certified products.
● They assess over 600
categories of material for all
product lines.

12. By measuring a product’s impact
on the environment during all of its
lifecycle phases – materials
selection, production, transport, use
and end-of-use – Steelcase is able
to target key areas to reduce the
impact on the planet.
Life Cycle Assessment

13. Think Environmental: Recycle / Reuse
• “Think” chair was the first product to receive
Cradle to Cradle product certification.
• 98% recyclable by weight.
• 30% recycled content.
• Easy to disassemble for reuse of materials.

14. Operations, Facilities, and Supply Chains
● To minimizing environmental
impact Steelcase keeps
careful watch on all their
operations, tracking their
greenhouse gas emissions,
water consumption, energy
use, and waste on a global
scale.
● Protecting the environment
and the health of the people
who work in our spaces is
core to their strategy.
● Steelcases partners follow
the same sustainability and
lean goals.

15. Establishing Benchmarks