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2011
Third company in Arizona to be certified as a B Corporation. A new type of corporation which uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.
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2011
First Recipient of the National Dealership Award - Office Furniture Dealers Alliance
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2011
Most Admired Companies (MAC) Award Recipient
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2010
Best Places to Work (4x winner)
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2010
CEO Cancer Gold Standard Accreditation
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2010
Green Business Award, City of Tucson
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2008
Goodmans Phoenix Corporate Facility gets LEED CI certification
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2008
Arizona Corporate Excellence (ACE) Community Impact Award Winner
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2004
Spirit of Enterprise, ASU WP Carey School of Business
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2004
Just in time for Goodmans' 50th anniversary, the company completes the $2.5 million renovation of its flagship showroom on 14th Street and Indian School. To symbolize the importance of people in the workplace, the renovation is named "Project Ryan" after Adam's young son.
Adam Goodman is named Goodmans Interior Structures president, becoming the third generation to lead the family business. His father, Murray Goodman, becomes Chairman and CEO.
Goodmans wins the Spirit of Enterprise Award. The award, presented by the Center for the Advancement of Small Business at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University recognizes ethics, energy and excellence in entrepreneurship.
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2000
Office Hockey is born. Goodmans begins an annual Phoenix tradition that features 600 spectators watching 16 teams of architects, designers and commercial real estate brokers playing hockey while seated in Herman Miller Aeron chairs. Participants dress in elaborate costumes while they compete for the coveted "Aeron Cup." In its first four years, the Goodmans Office Hockey Tournament raises $50,000 for local charities.
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1993
After pursuing a career in the newspaper industry, Adam Goodman returns to the family business to found G2 Office Furniture Market, a division of Goodmans serving small- to medium-sized businesses.
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1984
Goodmans contributes to the Reagan administrations' Star Wars by outfitting Los Alamos National Laboratories with workstations for all its employees. Two other large organizations - the state of Arizona and University of Phoenix - has provided a combined total of 40,000 workstations to the three organizations.
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1982
Goodmans invests $50,000 in the first computer aided design and drafting (CADD) system in the state of Arizona. Eric Bashaw is Goodmans' first CADD manager. To celebrate the distinction, Eric drives around town with a personalized license plate that reads "CADDMAN."
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1977
Goodmans Office Furniture opens its design showroom on 14th Street and Indian School in Phoenix. The signature brick of the building's exterior was almost plaster finish instead. During a trip to Chicago during the final planning phase of the showroom, Murray Goodman was inspired by the use of brick throughout the city. Murray called the showroom architect from the lobby of the Hyatt Hotel in Chicago and changed the exterior to brick.
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1971
Goodmans opens an office in Tucson, its first showroom outside Phoenix. Five years later, Goodmans opens its Albuquerque office.
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1969
Goodmans Office Furnishings sells the first major installation of modular furniture in the state of Arizona to the Ramada Inn, a company looking to change its image and improve productivity in the office.
1968
Herman Miller introduces the Action Office system, the world's first modular office system, aka the cubicle. Goodmans becomes a Herman Miller dealer.
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1954
A flat bed truck heads east with a load of watermelons and returns west with Arizona Office Equipment's beginning inventory: $2,500 in used government surplus furniture, paid for with Anna and Edward Goodman's life savings. The furniture is stored in a tiny warehouse on Culver Street until a monsoon tears through the warehouse and damages the all-wood furniture. Lacking the funds to make repairs, "We were almost out of business before we got started," says Murray Goodman. Mother Superior from the nearby Good Shepherd Home advances money for the furniture and the Goodmans are able to pay a cabinet-maker for repairs.
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