Laminate casegoods and desking built to order. How Commercial Office Interiors (COI) uses Groupe Lacasse on open-line projects across New Hampshire and Greater Boston, and which brands it is bid against on the same brief.
Groupe Lacasse builds laminate casegoods in Quebec, four hours from Hooksett, and builds them to order. Concept 70 and Morpheo are the private-office and desking lines COI specifies most, and Quorum covers open-plan benching and workstations. The finish library is wide, the edge and pull options are real choices rather than two colors, and odd sizes are a normal order rather than a custom quote.
Lacasse is the manufacturer COI puts forward when a private office or reception desk has to fit a room that was not drawn around a standard desk. A 66-inch return to clear a door, a reception counter to a specific elevation, a credenza that has to hold a printer: Lacasse makes those as production items. The price sits at the professional tier, usually close to National and below Kimball and OFS on the same typical.
Freight is the quiet advantage. Lacasse ships to New England from Quebec rather than from the Midwest or the West Coast, which shortens the window between an order and a loading dock and reduces the freight damage that a long haul produces. On COI's installs that shows up as fewer punch-list items on the casegoods.
Lacasse also pairs well with other lines. A Lacasse private office next to an Artopex open plan is a common COI specification: both are Quebec-built, both carry compatible laminate palettes and both land on a similar schedule, so the floor opens all at once.
Same specification, several manufacturers, one line-itemed proposal. The brief decides.
COI carries the project, not one manufacturer. Every workstation, private-office and task-chair typical goes to several brands and comes back on one proposal with prices, lead times, warranties and finishes side by side. Across five New England projects in 2026 the gap between a single-brand bid and the COI open-line bid on the same scope averaged 32 percent.
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Groupe Lacasse next to its alternatives, with the lead time for each configuration.
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COI is an open-line dealer and specifies from 100+ manufacturers. Authorization, territory, warranty routing and the quotation path are confirmed in writing for the exact brand and product on each project, and nothing on these pages should be read as a standing authorization claim for a given line. COI is the Artopex dealer for New Hampshire and one of 10 RESEAT dealers in the U.S.
By bidding the same specification across several of them. A workstation typical, a private-office typical and a task-chair standard each go out to three or more manufacturers, and the proposal shows the prices, lead times, warranties and finishes side by side. The brief decides, not a dealer contract.
Yes, and most COI projects do. A typical floor pairs one manufacturer for workstations, another for private offices, a third for task seating and a fourth for the lounge, each chosen on merit for that room type. COI coordinates the finish palette, the schedule and the installation so the floor reads as one project.
Those brands sell through contracted major-line dealers, so COI does not carry them. When a client has a quote from one of them, COI prices an equivalent open-line specification against it line by line. Across five New England projects in 2026 the average gap was 32 percent on the same scope.