Target redoubles efforts to service small business

MINNEAPOLIS -- Target is setting its sights on business customers with its latest venture, Target Commercial Interiors, a more than 50-year-old business recently renamed and boasting its first storefront open to the public.

Formerly Dayton's Commercial Interiors, the venture has been providing office design and furnishings to business customers for decades but until this month, operated solely from offices that doubled as showrooms in Minnesota, Illinois and Wisconsin. With the sale of Target's department store division last year, the company has rebranded the business with its trademark bullseye and launched its first store, now open to the public in suburban Bloomington, Minn., across the parking lot from a Target discount store.

The 11,500-square-foot store offers a broad selection of professional-grade furniture and settings, including flooring, cubicle dividers, desks, chairs, wall art, conference room configurations, lighting and even couches and coffee tables for more casual settings and waiting areas. Target Commercial Interiors is the largest provider of Steelcase brand office products in the Midwest, according to the company.