JASPER, Ind. – December 6, 2007 – Kimball Office has earned a Certified rating under the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Commercial Interiors (LEED-CI) standard. The certification is for project rooms that house the company's product development teams.

"We saw this project as an opportunity to redesign a portion of an existing facility so that it aligned with our sustainability practices," said Douglas Prickett, Director of Sustainable Design, Kimball Office. "How we manage the use of material in the design of our products to how we design our buildings demonstrates our genuine concern about the impact we make on the environment."

Partnering with Kimball Office on the design of the 12,776 sq. ft. project was TVS Interiors of Chicago, Atlanta, Dubai, and Shanghai.

To meet LEED-CI's rigorous standards, Kimball Office and TVS Interiors implemented several strategies. These included recycling 85.7 percent of the project's waste materials and implementing a green housekeeping program to provide a healthier working conditions not only for those who work in the space, but also for those who clean the space.

Other sustainable strategies involved:

• Preservation of natural resources through the use of local, recycled, and rapidly renewable materials;
• Optimization of occupants' well-being through the use of natural light and monitoring of thermal comfort;
• Minimization or elimination of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in materials specified for paints, adhesives, carpets, and composite wood materials; and
• Reducing water consumption by 32 percent through the use of low-flow water conservation fixtures.

Kimball Office is a member of the USGBC and operates several LEED-certified facilities, including its silver-certified Chicago showroom and gold-certified Jasper showroom. Both were designed by TVS Interiors.

LEED-CI is the recognized standard for certifying high-performance "green" interiors that are healthy, productive places to work, are less costly to operate and maintain, and reduce environmental footprint, according to the USGBC. In the office furniture industry this is particularly important because it provides measurable guidelines for addressing clients' requests for sustainable products and office-place solutions. LEED-CI offers four levels of certification: baseline certified, followed by silver, gold and platinum certification, each level being predicated on specific design and environmental criteria.

About TVS Interiors
TVS Interiors, Inc. is a nationally recognized interior design firm with offices in Atlanta, Chicago and Dubai. The firm is known throughout the industry for its progressive interiors and has provided services for many FORTUNE 100 clients. The firm is a corporate affiliate of the architectural firm TVS, recipient of the AIA 2002 Architecture Firm Award. TVS Interiors is consistently listed as one of the nation's top 100 interior design forms. For additional information, please visit www.tvsinteriors.com.

About Kimball Office
The recognized leader in fine office furnishings, Kimball Office has been building its reputation on quality and integrity of design for more than 30 years. The company is a business unit of Kimball International, Inc., a corporation that provides a vast array of products from its two business segments: Furniture and Cabinets, and Electronic Contract Assemblies. Based in Jasper, Indiana, the publicly traded company (NASDAQ: KBALB) had sales of $1.3 billion in 2007. To learn more, please visit www.kimballoffice.com.