Business View Magazine | February 2019

125 and can help our business grow,”Ewing adds.“And we’re very pleased with the results.” Going forward, Ewing reveals that he wants the company to continue to develop its product mix to “stay ahead of the curve and what our competitors offer.We do that by continually researching what the top-tier, global, furniture manufacturers are producing and what our customer base is looking to sell into today’s workspaces,”he says.He further notes that the modern work environment is chang- ing dramatically- sometimes evolving, and some- times devolving.“We’ve actually seen some of them going back to cube style workstations because the recent trend and binge towards open office and taking the walls down led to an environment where people could not hear themselves think.And they discovered that they needed the privacy that the cubicle walls provided. So,we’ve seen a little bit of shift going back in that direction. So, reacting to those changes continues to be our focus and it’s a big challenge, because the changes happen much quicker as each year goes by; what’s been in vogue goes out very quickly.” An additional goal for 2019 is to add another potential acquisition to the one that the company made last November.“Completion of that acquisi- tion solidified our belief that we could combine our successful Greenfield growth with the right acquisition and we’re hopeful to complete at least one, if not two, acquisitions in 2019,”Ewing relates. “And any of those would be complementary to our human capital piece; we would not be doing an acquisition if we did not feel that there was a significant benefit to the people that were in place