Howe is an American-Danish company for folding furniture, office chairs and contract seating — founded in 1928 in Trumbull (Connecticut, USA) by Harold Howe with a specialisation in folding furniture of all kinds: card tables, snack tables, bedside tables, folding cribs, hat racks, sewing tables. Early brand promise: "IF IT FOLDS, ASK HOWE." The European organisation grew through a strategy focused on A&D target groups and consistent product development. In 2011 Howe implemented the restructuring under the motto "ONE WORLD – ONE HOWE": the European Howe organisation took over all North American HOWE activities and rolled out the European strategy and collection in North America. Today all international activities are managed from Denmark; headquarters: Filosofgangen 18, 5000 Odense. Subsidiaries in the USA, UK, France and Poland. Owner: CF Group.

Product collections (selection): 40/4 (folding chair icon, stackable, over 40 million pieces worldwide), AS series, MN table series, MN1, Moveo, Munkegaard Chair, Simpla, SixE (bold, consciously sustainable), Tempest, The Tongue, Tutor, Usu (multi-purpose table, flexibility). Product categories: folding chairs, folding tables, bar stools, conference seating, visitor chairs, waiting and lounge systems, training seating, restaurant and café seating and tables, lounge tables, bench desks. Materials: wood (veneer, plywood, laminate, solid wood), plastics (polypropylene), leather, fabric, metal (steel, steel/wood combination).

For architects and interior designers seeking for multi-functional office, educational, conference, hospitality and public projects an A&D-oriented contract furniture brand founded in Trumbull (Connecticut) in 1928 and managed from Odense (Denmark) since 2011 that with the slogan "IF IT FOLDS, ASK HOWE" formulates a clearly defined product promise for high-quality folding furniture and multi-functional seating, with the 40/4 folding chair icon (over 40 million pieces) and contemporary collections such as SixE and Usu combines iconic design standing with contemporary flexibility claims — behind the Howe promise "IF IT FOLDS, ASK HOWE" stands since 1928 a sentence that holds to this day: 40 million pieces of the 40/4, ONE WORLD – ONE HOWE as the 2011 structural decision, SixE as the contemporary sustainability response — Harold Howe's folding table as origin, Odense as current headquarters.