Vepa UK Ltd

What Vepa UK Ltd does

Vepa is a Dutch-headquartered sustainable office furniture manufacturer serving corporate, government, education, healthcare, and company-restaurant clients across the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Belgium, and Germany. The group operates five vertically integrated production facilities (Breda, Emmen, Hoogeveen, Wijchen, and Telford) that house all stages of manufacture in-house — wood processing, sheet and tubular steel, powder coating, wood spray, upholstery, and final assembly — anchored by a 30,000 m2 flagship factory in Hoogeveen. The product portfolio spans task and lounge seating (Felt, Maia, Hemp, Chair 400, Be Hybrid), desks and tables (Presto, VPAX, LIFT, Timber, Whale Boardroom Table), storage and acoustic solutions (InBetween screens, Wireworks pods, mobile pedestals, lockers), and circular collections such as the Plastic Whale by Vepa range made from Amsterdam canal plastic.

Vepa monetises through turnkey office fit-out projects (orientation, co-creation workshops, 2D/3D design, manufacturing, installation, and a 10-year after-sales guarantee), standard catalogue sales via a dealer network and direct enterprise sales, and an emerging Furniture-as-a-Service / Circular Furnishing subscription model that combines lease, take-back, refurbishment, and recycling via the Circular Centre. Distribution combines a dealer channel (with a dedicated ffgportal.com dealer portal), direct enterprise sales, three flagship showrooms in Hoogeveen, London, and Berlin, and a self-serve product configurator. Differentiation rests on circular-economy material innovations (Hemp Carbon with Plantics Carbon Capture Composite, PET felt from Plastic Whale-cleared canal bottles, Re-felt acoustic filling) and a regulatory-grade credential stack (FSC, PEFC, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 14044 LCA, Oeko-Tex, European Ecolabel) that supports public-sector and ESG-driven enterprise tenders.

Name

Vepa UK Ltd

Legal name

Vepa B.V.

Website

https://vepa.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Vepa is a Dutch sustainable office furniture manufacturer with five in-house factories across the Netherlands and UK, serving corporate, government, education, and healthcare clients via dealers, showrooms, and turnkey project fit-outs built on circular materials.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sustainable Office Furniture

NAICS

Office Furniture (including Fixtures) Manufacturing (3372), Office Furniture (including Fixtures) Manufacturing (33721), Institutional Furniture Manufacturing (337127)

SIC

Office Furniture (2520), Public Bldg & Related Furniture (2531)

akta.pro primary industry

Office Furniture & Workspace Accessories Retail (CRALABAE)

Keywords

• Sustainable office furniture
• Circular furniture manufacturing
• Acoustic workplace solutions
• Bespoke office fit-outs
• Workplace furniture design

Headquarters

HQ city

Telford, Shropshire

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices10 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom and standard office furniture sales: Vepa designs, manufactures, and sells a comprehensive range of office furniture including desks, chairs, storage, screens, tables, and lounge furniture. Products are sold through a dealer network and direct enterprise sales for large project fit-outs. Both standard catalogue products and fully custom/bespoke furniture are available. Projects are delivered as turnkey interior solutions including design, manufacturing, logistics, installation, and after-sales service.
2. Project interior design and fit-out services: Full-service project delivery including orientation, concept development, design (2D/3D renders), integration and implementation, furniture installation, instruction and training, and after-sales support. A 10-year minimum post-delivery guarantee is offered.
3. Furniture as a Service / Circular Furnishing: Circular furnishing model where Vepa provides furniture management, lease, and take-back services. End-of-life furniture is collected, refurbished, or recycled through the Circular Centre. This represents a shift from one-time product sales toward service-based, circular revenue models.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Vepa designs, manufactures, and sells a comprehensive range of sustainable office furniture — including chairs, desks, tables, storage, acoustic pods/screens and lounge seating — through its own factories in the Netherlands and the UK. The company offers both a standard catalogue and fully bespoke co-creation projects delivered as turnkey interior fit-outs (concept, design, production, installation, 10-year after-sales guarantee). It also operates a growing Furniture-as-a-Service circular furnishing model with take-back, refurbishment and recycling via the in-house Circular Centre.

Product overview

Vepa is a Dutch sustainable furniture manufacturer offering a comprehensive portfolio of workplace furniture products. The company produces chairs (task chairs, stackable chairs, lounge chairs, bar stools), desks and tables (including sit-stand desks, meeting tables, boardroom tables), storage solutions (mobile pedestals, lockers, drawer units, cabinets), acoustic solutions (Wireworks pods, InBetween screens, acoustic panels), and specialized sustainable collections. Notable sub-brands include Plastic Whale by Vepa (furniture made from Amsterdam canal plastic including Whale Tail Chair, Whale Boardroom Table, Whale Panel, Barnacle lamps and side tables), and the Hemp collection (furniture using hemp fibers and bio-based materials). The company also offers workplace management technology through iotspot® for IoT-enabled workspace optimization. All products are manufactured in-house at facilities in the Netherlands, emphasizing local production, circular design principles, and sustainability.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Plastic Whale by Vepa: Collection of furniture made from plastic collected from the Amsterdam canals, including Whale Tail Chair, Whale Boardroom Table, Whale Panels, and Barnacle lamps.
• iotspot

Products and services

• Wireworks acoustic pods (coupé, meeting place, phone booth, sofa)
• Patchwork
• ParQ
• Ypsilon
• HomeFit
• Presto desk family (S, SW, R/RT, RW, RW+, management)
• Base 4
• Chair 400 and Bar stool 400
• Maia family (Maia, Maia Medium, Maia High)
• Felt chair family (Felt, Felt Relax, Felt Tub, Felt Fine, Felt Medium, Felt High)
• Hemp Carbon (Hemp Fine Carbon, Hemp Medium Carbon, Hemp High Carbon)
• Hemp Fine, Hemp Fine Coffee, Hemp Medium, Hemp High, Hemp 400
• Hemp Panels
• Whale Boardroom Table
• Whale Panel
• Whale Tail Chair
• Barnacle Lamp
• Barnacle Side Table
• iotspot
• InBetween screens
• Mobile pedestal (wood and steel variants)
• L-store and LM-store lockers
• VPAX, LIFT, Timber, Skeef, Bold side table, Piqniq
• Contact
• Connect
• Be Hybrid
• Moi and Club
• Mobile media unit
• Project interior design and turnkey fit-out services
• Furniture as a Service (FaaS) / Circular Furnishing

Quantifiable outcome

• Hemp Carbon chair achieves 88% recycled content and 41% bio-based materials with 11.7 kg CO2e footprint
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers19 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Plastic WhalecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVepa partners with Plastic Whale to manufacture furniture products from plastic bottles fished from the Amsterdam canals. Each year thousands of people participate in canal plastic collection events. Vepa transforms the collected PET bottles into PET felt and PET foam for products including the Whale Boardroom Table, Whale Tail Chair, Whale Panel, and Barnacle lamps. The partnership generates over 40,000 PET bottles per year and creates furniture that reaches boardrooms of major Dutch and international companies.
• PlanticscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMaterials pioneer Plantics collaborated with Vepa to develop the Hemp collection's bio-resin, which was further advanced into Carbon Capture Composite for the Hemp Carbon variant. Plantics' bio-resin is based on natural materials and contributes to the chair's CO2 reduction credentials, with CO2 captured during biomass growth remaining stored in the finished product.
• Circular Groningen DrenthecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerVepa participates in the Circular Groningen Drenthe network, which comprises nearly 200 companies and organisations committed to strengthening the circular economy in the northern regions of the Netherlands. As part of this network, Vepa was selected as one of two companies to host Queen Máxima's circular economy working visit, highlighting its role as an authority in circular entrepreneurship.
• ProbirminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorProbir is a dealer that handled the turnkey project for Mediahuis Noord, coordinating the full office fit-out in Leeuwarden. Probir represents Vepa in project-based furniture sales for specific accounts.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Vitra: Swiss premium office and home furniture manufacturer with a strong design and sustainability reputation. Comparable to Vepa in design-led positioning, circular initiatives, and a portfolio spanning chairs, tables, and acoustic solutions for enterprise and education clients.
• Bene: Austrian office furniture specialist offering workstations, seating, and room systems with strong design credentials in the DACH region. Comparable to Vepa's premium positioning and similar enterprise/government contract furniture customer base in Central Europe.
• Kinnarps: Swedish office furniture group serving Nordic and Northern European enterprise markets with desks, seating, storage, and room-in-room solutions. Comparable to Vepa as a Northern European contract furniture manufacturer with sustainability commitments and a similar mid-to-large enterprise customer profile.
• Sedus Stoll: German office furniture manufacturer producing task chairs, desks, and acoustic furniture with sustainability certifications. A direct peer in the German-speaking market where Vepa is building presence, competing on similar enterprise and public-sector tenders.
• Gispen: Dutch office furniture manufacturer with a heritage in circular and refurbished furniture, particularly strong in education and public-sector markets. A direct Dutch peer competing with Vepa for circular-economy-minded institutional customers.
• Ahrend: Dutch office furniture manufacturer with a comparable product range (desks, chairs, acoustic solutions) and strong presence in Benelux enterprise and public-sector tenders. Directly comparable as a Dutch-headquartered contract furniture peer competing for the same ING/Rabobank/municipality accounts.

Broad incumbents

• MillerKnoll: US-based parent of Herman Miller, Knoll, and other design-led furniture brands. Overlaps with Vepa in premium design-led seating and workstations, and competes for global enterprise customers with far broader product breadth.
• Steelcase: Global #1 office furniture manufacturer with a broad portfolio spanning seating, desks, architecture, and technology. A broad incumbent whose sustainability initiatives and global dealer network set the competitive ceiling for mid-sized European players like Vepa.
• Haworth: Privately held global office furniture manufacturer with deep European dealer coverage and a broad architectural interiors offering. Comparable as a large incumbent competing for the same multinational enterprise accounts that Vepa serves.

Emerging players

• USM: Swiss modular furniture maker with a hallmark modular storage system also used in office and acoustic applications. Comparable to Vepa in design-led, premium positioning and modular office interiors, though narrower in product scope.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/Vepaoffice
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/Vepaofficefurniture
• Facebookfacebook.com/VepaUK
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/vepaukltd
• Instagraminstagram.com/vepauk
• Pinterestpinterest.co.uk/Vepa_UK

Compliance6 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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