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The Canadian seating maker won a contract to supply more than
5,000 seats to the new Hong Kong Cruise Terminal.
Workspring, a Steelcase-branded and managed “enhanced workspace destination,” opened its
newest location in Chicago, and the first Workspring-enabled building in the country.
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Arconas’ ship comes in
Still Trending: Workspring Expands
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2.25.2013
Necessity is
the Mother of
Invention
BIFMA Leadership Conference
The story of Sedia System’s Jumpseat
While some industry events and conference organizers go out of their way to recruit presenters
who speak directly to office furniture topics, the BIFMA Leadership Conference succeeds
because it focuses more on broader topics that seem to foster more thought and discussion.
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3.4.2013
A simple Gesture
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INSIDE:
Our new quarterly
publication all about Chairs
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3.25.2013
Steelcase’s new Gesture chair is no Leap
2.0. It is light years ahead and might just be
the most innovative task chair launched in
recent memory.
Super Reps
A visit with William Corbett III
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4.15.2013
Customize to Win
Fluidconcepts’ success has come from its ability to customize and it plans to keep on giving
the design community what it wants.
Restorative Enterprise
“This team is charged with helping to transform our company into an enterprise
that restores the environment as well as preserves and protects it.”
Clarus Glassboards
Those not in the know might wonder if glassboards -- the next evolutionary
step from chalkboards and whiteboards -- are even necessary.
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Our Readers are
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MMQB Reaches
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Introduction
Furniture Matters.
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It happened in the early 1970’s with the advent of open plan systems furniture. By the year 2000, office furniture had
grown into a $13 billion dollar business comprised of more than 400 manufacturers and a distribution channel of over
3,000 dealers. Today, “office furniture” is evolving again, this time from a cubicle-based environment to a shared, sometimes communal space, with less furniture but more function. Today's new office design will be a major focus of corporate
strategic planning for the next decade.
Interior designers, specifiers, facility managers and corporate end-users now realize their choice of furniture - and their
ability to plan, purchase and manage it effectively - can dramatically impact the outcome of their corporate initiatives.
For years, the contract furnishings industry’s idea of how to cover itself was through trade publications such as Interior
Design and Contract magazines. Publications were not viewed as strategic. Most were boring and had little useful information about the business of the office / contract furnishings industry.
The increasingly critical role of office planning - driven by some of today’s hottest concepts, such as hoteling, hot desking,
collaborative environments, etc. - has forever changed the way interior designers and facility managers choose, specify,
purchase and manage furniture and related services. Facility managers, end-users, specifiers, interior designers and even
dealers and manufacturers need a source of objective, comparative and holistic information to help them make informed
decisions in this complicated and changing corporate environment. In addition, new issues including sustainability and
recycling have increasingly made their way into the vocabulary of the office furniture industry.
The Monday Morning Quarterback delivers. We deliver manufacturers a vehicle to reach facility managers, specifiers, interior designers, reps and dealers who seek insightful, strategic coverage of the contract furnishings industry as a front-andcenter concern. We cover the industry from a strategic point of view, concentrating on quality analysis and independently
written articles. The Monday Morning Quarterback offers in-depth features and covers important issues that help the entire
industry make key decisions, set product strategy and understand the business better.
Editorial Mission
The Monday Morning Quarterback’s mission is to be an objective, critical source of information that helps contract industry
professionals make informed decisions about what is working today and what they need to plan for in the future.
The Monday Morning Quarterback is the only industry publication that exclusively serves the contract furnishings industry
on a daily and weekly, basis. The Monday Morning Quarterback serves all aspects of the business: from office furnishings
manufacturers and their suppliers to dealers and the various distribution channels, and finally to end-users. Our readers
are key consumers in this $13 billion market.
The Monday Morning Quarterback provides in-depth analysis and guidance focused exclusively on the contract furnishing
industry, making it the singular source of strategic and practical information on selecting, deploying and managing interior
furnishings, for over 24 years.
The Monday Morning Quarterback delivers up-to-the-minute industry news and information 24x7 via its web site and daily
e-mailings. Every Monday our weekly issue includes several feature articles focused on the various participants of this
vibrant market - manufacturers, dealers, component suppliers and service providers. Regular columns offer expert advice
on issues that matter most to contract furnishings professionals.
The Monday Morning Quarterback gives industry professionals the information they need to set strategy, make key
decisions and manage effectively.
The foundation of the Monday
Morning Quarterback’s leadership
and authority is the brand’s unique
role as a industry barometer for
a highly regarded, specialized
audience.
The Monday Morning Quarterback places office furnishings in the context
of business and the world we work in — how we design, build and deliver;
what customers specify, who we sell to and what inspires us. The Monday
Morning Quarterback immerses itself in the contract furnishings world,
always leading readers to what happened and what will happen next.
Thought-provoking, relevant and always influential, the Monday Morning
Quarterback helps define the culture of office furnishings.
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Audience Profile
The Monday Morning Quarterback readers: 100% decision-making, contract
furnishings-focused professionals who pay a premium price for our editorial content.
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Participants in the contract furnishings industry are traditionally hard to find. The
Monday Morning Quarterback has changed that. We know who cares about contract furnishings, and we know how to find them. The 35,000 weekly readers of
The Monday Morning Quarterback represent the majority of the decision makers
in the contract furnishings field.
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The Monday Morning Quarterback is published weekly on Monday as an electronic edition for tablets and in Adobe Acrobat portable document format (pdf ) and
delivered via e-mail 51 times per year. The Monday Morning Quarterback also
maintains an up-to-the minute web site - www.mmqb.com - for subscribers only.
The web site provides current news and industry research. The entire Monday
Morning Quarterback news database of over 50,000 stories going back to 1990,
is also available to our subscribers.
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The Monday Morning Quarterback is the only industry publications that reaches
its audience EVERY SINGLE BUSINESS DAY. For advertisers, there is simply no
better or faster method of reaching this valuable audience.
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Each business day subscribers to The Monday Morning Quarterback also receive
a Daily Edition at 5am which alerts them to and summarizes late breaking news.
Subscribers can easily click-through on their e-mail to read the full story.
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Marketing Opportunities
The Monday Morning Quarterback electronic print and web based media give
advertisers - manufacturers, dealers, and service providers - a unique ability to
reach all members of the contract industry. We are especially strong in delivering
immediate marketing messages to manufacturers, dealers, reps and facility managers.
Leverage the unique strengths of all of the Monday Morning Quarterback media
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Editorial Calendar
January - December 2014
Issue
March 10, 2014
May 19 & 26 2014
June 2, 2014
June 9, 2014
June 16 & 23 2014
August 11, 2014
September 8, 2014
September 15,2014
Special Focus
Seating Special
NeoCon Preview
NeoCon Preview
NeoCon Show Issue
NeoCon Wrap
Dealer Special Report and Section
IIDEX Canada Preview
IIDEX Canada Show Issue
Issue
October 27, 2014
November 3, 2014
Special Focus
NeoCon East Pre Show
NeoCon East Post Show
Other Coverage by the Editorial Staff in 2014:
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(rates effective January 1, 2014 - December 31, 2014)
The Monday Morning Quarterback’s competitive edge lies within its highly targeted and fully paid subscriber base - you’re
investing to reach an extremely qualified audience. It’s more affordable on a per-page basis than broad interior design
based monthly publications, and it’s more affordable on a CPM basis than in-market publications. Better yet, none of your
media buy is wasted with The Monday Morning Quarterback: we pinpoint the industry professionals who are specifically
focused on contract furnishings.
The Monday Morning Quarterback also offers significant savings with our unparalleled frequency discounts.
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