Founded in 1898, VS Vereinigte Spezialmöbelfabriken is a family-owned company with 1,300 employees that manufactures furniture for schools and offices. Its customers include many DAX-listed companies, major banks and mid-sized enterprises which VS supplies with individually tailored system furniture as part of its project business.

The company's head office and only production site is Tauberbischofsheim, Germany. It also has branches and subsidiaries in Europe, the USA and the Near East.
Throughout its history, the company has always worked closely together with renowned designers. In 1903, Richard Riemerschmid designed a classroom with benches, developed by Wilhelm Rettig, for the exhibition given by furniture-makers Dresdner Werkstätten für Handwerkskunst. In 1910, Bruno Paul presented an art room with reform-style school furniture at the World's Fair in Brussels. Karl Nothhelfer's skid chair (1952) was found for decades in classrooms in Germany and beyond.

Later, a long-standing cooperation was to grow up with the designers Verner Panton and Jürgen Greubel as well as with the architects Günter and Stefan Behnisch and Hubertus Eilers. In 2014, the company included classic furniture by Richard Neutra (1892-1970) in its portfolio. These pieces were either reproduced or created for the first time on the basis of Neutra's designs. They are now available as the Neutra Furniture Collection by VS.

At the company headquarters in Tauberbischofsheim, VS runs a museum dedicated to the history of the design of school equipment. The exhibition centres around an exceptional collection of historic school furniture collected by VS over a period of decades.