Help – We need cool break room furniture – and we need it fast.

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The challenge (outfit our empty break room):

“We’re moving in our team in the next week or so.  Our break room is an empty space.  Quick, we need cool tables and chairs that match our corporate colors, are comfortable and fun.”

Hanna Chair and OFM Multi-purpose Table for Biopharma Break Room

A biopharma firm in the Bay Area got cubes, office & conference room furniture and employee seating to support their growth.  Last on their mind was the break/coffee/lunch room.  Now all of a sudden, that empty space looms as a “oh my gosh” moment.

The biofpharm’s corporate colors were Deep Red, Black, complemented with a Warm Red, Burgundy, Cool Gray and Warm Green.  The break room, an open area set between two work areas was hard rock maple, with dark counter tops, wall color orange (which is going to change).  Indoff-Silicon Valley (officefurnituresanjose.com) who did their conversion of standard walls to clear-coat floor to ceiling white board coatings, was called upon to remedy this situation fast.

The office furniture procurement challenge for Indoff-Silicon Valley:

Find good looking, fast delivery chairs and tables that drew upon the corporate color scheme, were affordable, fun & functional (easily reconfigured when needed).

Indoff-Silicon Valley relied both on experience and fellow representatives to find solutions.  Mr. Harnack, Indoff-Silicon Valley’s representative, recalled a previous break room he had furnished for an accounting firm in San Jose.  The Hanna Chair from IzzyPlus was available in a variety of colors, is very comfortable, and seemed to fit the general theme of the biopharm’s firm.  A quick call to Izzy’s customer support team found that the Hanna chair with standard colors were in stock and ready for quick ship.  Yea!  Part 1 complete.

However the IzzyPlus table that typically accompanied the Hanna chair was on 4 to5 week lead time.  This wouldn’t work.  By the way, this was late on Friday (Pacific Time) and there wasn’t much hope of getting to East Coast Suppliers.  Mr. Harnack got in touch with a number of fellow Indoff representatives in the West and Mr. Ron Swanson, Oregon, had a solution.  Mr. Swanson had recently worked with OFM Inc. in North Carolina and had used their in-stock program to deliver tables to clients in Oregon.  Even though it was late on Friday, Mr. Harnack was able to track down OFM’s reps (on their mobile phones – on the way home) who were able to determine availability (of product stocked in Arizona), provide quotes and delivery estimates in time for Mr. Harnack to get a quote to the client before quitting time.  At day’s end the order was in, and the client will get first class, great looking, long-lasting, systems that match their corporate colors, all within a week or so.  Yea! Part 2 complete.

To make sure everyone was in the loop, Mr. Harnack produced custom spec sheets featuring the products, colors and design choices that could easily be shared with the biopharma execs and team members.  Plus, he laid out the space design to confirm everything would fit as planned.

So stay tuned – in a week or so, we’ll publish the furnished room.  For more info, visit our website <click here>