Business model
Business model
Royal Ahrend supplies furniture and offers services for office, retail, education and healthcare environments via a portfolio of four leading furniture brands: Ahrend, Gispen, Techo and Gispen - Presikhaaf Schoolmeubelen. Each of these well-known brands is a leader in their own market of which some can look back at a heritage spanning over a century. The service portfolio consists of a wide range of services, from interior design, circular consultancy and customer specific furniture refurbishment to store furnishing, Furniture-as-a-Serivce and asset management.
Royal Ahrend's key customer markets are found in Europe and Asia. Our customers include both profit and non-profit (e.g. healthcare, education and (semi)government) organisations. Royal Ahrend has sales offices in its most important markets. Other markets are served by an international team specifically set up to deliver projects to customers in non-home markets. In addition, Royal Ahrend is setting up a dealer network and an online channel to serve a broader customer group in Europe, Middle-East and Asia. In the Middle-East and the Asia-Pacific region, Royal Ahrend’s growth plans are being further developed via the sales office in Dubai and the branch office in Singapore, as well as the joint venture called “Despace”, which was established in January 2024. Despace aims to generate sales from providing pay per use space-in-space solutions in public places, such as airports, hotels and coffee bars.
Royal Ahrend’s main raw material suppliers (wood, metal, textiles) are located in Europe.
Four leading brands:
Ahrend creates vitalising workspaces. We have been doing so for over 125 years, together with our customers all over the world. A vitalising workspace is a working environment where you feel at home. With smartly designed spaces that inspire, enhance wellbeing and encourage collaboration. Additionally, our circularly designed furniture and services contribute to achieving the sustainability objectives of organisations. As such, we support both organisations and employees to truly make a difference.
Gispen has been producing sustainable designs for over 100 years. Sturdiness you can build on and which can be extended and adapted again and again as trends and requirements change. We don’t think in terms of new. We think about the future, and we have been doing so for over a century. For organisations, companies, educational institutions and hospitals that, like us, care about the future generations.
Techo represents clever and modular furniture that provides comfort and optimally supports employees in carrying out their jobs. There is a design to suit the needs of the client in any situation. The universal design language of the furniture means it can be matched to any environment: from an office to a home workspace, or from a lobby to a retail shop.
Gispen - Presikhaaf Schoolmeubelen creates optimal learning environments in which students discover and develop their talents. We produce sustainably, circularly and in a socially responsible way in the Netherlands. We do so in an environment where professional and personal development are guiding principles. Everybody is given the opportunity to apply their skills here. Distinctive by corporate social responsibility and pso-30+ certified.
As of January 2025 Presikhaaf Schoolmeubelen continues as Gispen.