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Steelcase Inc.


Steelcase Steelcase (NYSE: SCS) is an international office furniture company. It was founded in 1912 in Grand Rapids, Michigan as The Metal Office Furniture Company. The company at the time specialized in mainly file cabinets and safes.  Inc. of Grand Rapids Grand Rapids, city (1990 pop. 189,126), seat of Kent co., SW central Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1850. The second largest city in the state, it is a distribution, wholesale, and industrial center for an area that yields fruit, dairy products, farm produce, , MI, reported revenue from its continuing operations continuing operations

Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the
 grew 10 percent in its second fiscal quarter. Revenue totaled $612.1 million, as compared to $555.6 million in the first quarter. Second-quarter totals were a 5 percent decrease from the $644.2 million in the same quarter last year. Steelcase reported a net income of $18.1 million for the 2005 second-quarter.
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Title Annotation:Business Digest
Publication:Wood & Wood Products
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Oct 1, 2003
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