== Anthro Corporation ==



Anthro Corporation is a United States corporation located in Tualatin, Oregon. It is a manufacturer and e-tailer best known for its technology furniture®. Anthro is privately owned and is ISO 9001 certified. The name Anthro is derived from the word anthropomorphic which means the attribution of uniquely human characteristics and qualities to inanimate objects.

History

Anthro was founded in 1984 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Tektronix, and became an independent company in 1988. The company shares its beginnings with the rise of the personal computer. The furniture Anthro manufactures in its facility is designed for the following markets: <br>
• General Office
• Creative
• Healthcare
• Labs (Medical and Testing & Measurement)
• Servers
• Education & Training
• Home
• Material Handling
• Retail
• Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM)

Products

Anthro offers over 550 standard furniture products, with five separate furniture families.
These are: <br>
• Fit System – A configurable line of furniture with many choices in accessories. <br>
• AnthroBench – A strong line of furniture designed to hold extremely heavy equipment.
• AnthroCart – Anthro’s original line – a simple cart that can be configured many ways.
• Elevate – A line of Electric Lift Tables (ELT) whose surfaces can raise and lower and tilt with the touch of a button
• “Unique Solutions” – Products designed for specific purposes such as an advanced workstation for radiologists.

New Products

Anthro regularly introduces new products to the market, particularly when there is a niche to fill. In November 2004, Anthro introduced the Power Supply Cart, a heavy-duty mobile cart with integrated rechargeable cordless power. In May 2005, Anthro introduced Carl’s Table®, an integrated workstation with electric lift features and automatically adapting lighting. In November 2005, Anthro introduced eNook™, a wall-mounted workstation that serves as a charging and storage station for small electronics like cell phones, PDAs and laptops.




Manufacturing
Anthro designs and manufactures almost every product they sell. Currently there is an in-house team of nine designers, who design and prototype inside the manufacturing plant. The plant itself includes fabrication , powder coating, panel processing, packaging and shipping.


Customer Relations
Anthro is well known for outstanding quality and exceptional service. All of their products are supported by a lifetime warranty. And Anthro offers a 100-day Risk
Free Promise so that customers are free to return any product they aren’t satisfied with.
Most orders are sent out of their manufacturing facility within three days. In 2006, 67% of their customers had previously purchased from Anthro.


Employee Relations
Customer service representatives receive over 200 hours of training before they begin to field calls and 30 hours every year after. Sales staff apprentice as trainees for approximately 8 months before being assigned a sales territory.
Oregon Business Magazine has named Anthro on of the "100 Best Companies to Work for in Oregon" for five times in the past 10 years. This annual evaluation, in which all Oregon-based businesses are invited to participate, is a two-part survey. The survey consists of evaluations by both management and by the employees, and considers organizational communication, benefits, attraction/retention, rewards and recognition, working environment and performance management. An independent panel of judges reviewed the responses and determined the final rankings.





Awards
eNook™ received the “Gold Award” in the “Alternative Office” category in the Best of NeoCon® Competition in 2006.

iCart II™ received the “Silver Award” in the “Alternative Office” category in the Best of NeoCon® Competition in 2003.

The Laptop Storage Cart received the “Most Innovative Product Award” in the Best of NeoCon® Competition in 2002.




External Links
http://www.anthro.com/index.aspx

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