BECK OFFICE FURNITURE ACQUIRES TWO COMPANIES IN MARYLAND AS PART OF THEIR NATIONAL ACQUISITION AND EXPANSION PLAN

BECK OFFICE FURNITURE ACQUIRES TWO COMPANIES IN MARYLAND AS PART OF THEIR NATIONAL ACQUISITION AND EXPANSION PLAN
Edited by Christopher Simmons, senior news editor

Founded in Long Island in 1957, Beck Continues to Expand Space Planning Services and Additional Private Label Brand Showrooms through Acquisitions

NEW YORK, NY - Feb. 3, 2003 /Send2Press Newswire/ -- Beck Office Furniture, Inc. (www.beckofficefurniture.com) today announced the acquisition of American Space Planners of Owings Mill, MD, and Advanced Office Furniture, of Laurel, MD. These locations add substantially to Beck's existing large, fully stocked, New York showrooms in Huntington Station, Mineola, Rockville Centre, Ronkonkoma, and Manhattan, NY.

The former owner of American Space Planners, Wendy Lyons will stay on as manager of the renamed Beck American Space Planners. The former owner of Advanced Office furniture will stay on as manager of the renamed Beck Office Furniture of Maryland.

"These acquisitions give us additional facilities in key customer markets," says company President and CEO, Kenneth Beck, "and are the next step in our national showroom expansion. With the challenged economy, we've been able to make several acquisitions over the past six months, first locally in New York, and now in Maryland."

Concludes Beck, "With our e-commerce web site we already service companies around the country. What separates us from the unsuccessful dot-com companies in the furniture industry is our showrooms. The Internet has helped us identify customer markets in which we should have a brick-and-mortar presence, and we are acquiring or opening showrooms in those key markets."

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Beck Office Furniture, Inc. is the oldest and largest commercial office furniture dealer on Long Island, New York. Joe Beck started Joe Beck Desk Co. in a Manhattan warehouse 50 years ago based on the philosophy: "If you give the customer great value and even better service, you'll have a customer for life."

Beck Office Furniture, Inc. offers its clients the professional expert service normally expected and received by Fortune 500 companies, but tailored to smaller businesses.

Beck has an in-house team of office designers, each holding design degrees who provide complete space planning services. Beck carries both brand names, and private label furniture and office systems manufactured by top companies -- at a fraction of the name brand price, but with equal quality.

The company is privately owned. Corporate headquarters are located at 48 Jericho Turnpike, Mineola, NY 11501, USA.