NEWS MAKERS
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES AT HUNTER DOUGLAS DIVISION
Hunter Douglas Window Fashions Division, Bloomfield, CO, has announced several
organizational and management changes.
Todd Steele, formerly vice president of the Honeycomb Business Unit has been
named vice president of a new business unit that will support a new window coverings
concept development. He has devoted 22 years to the Window Fashions Division
serving in many capacities and has been with the honeycomb products since their
inception.
A newly created Product Development Business Unit combines the company’s
Special Projects Group with key personnel from the New Products Business Unit.
Joe Kovach, formerly vice president of Special Projects, has been promoted to
vice president of this unit. He is a 16-year employee who has made significant
contributions to the development of new window fashions products.
Beth Hunt, who has led the New Products Business Unit for the past two years,
has taken on the assignment of helping the division market new technologies as
vice president of Business Development. Previously she was vice president/business
director of the Performance Fabrics Division for Burlington Industries, Greensboro,
NC.
Sheryl Wisecup has been promoted to vice president of the Honeycomb Business
Unit replacing Steele. She has served most recently as director of marketing
for the unit. She came to Hunter Douglas from Samsonite, Denver, CO, where she
was product manager.
KENNY JOINS BTX CUSTOMER SERVICE TEAM
BTX, Dallas, TX, has appointed Nancy Kenny to the position of traffic coordinator
in the BTX customer service department. Kenny joins Navarro Fisher and Jennifer
Hamilton to make a solid customer service team for the fast growing market of
window coverings automation.
As coordinator between the customer and the BTX sales team and technology departments,
Kenny will help ensure the customer’s needs are met promptly and to the
fullest. The BTX customer service team specializes in consulting its customer
base in the selection and execution of custom solutions for systems and controls
that match its exact needs.
IMPERIAL HOME DECOR GROUP NAMES GREEN PRESIDENT, CEO
Eliot Green has been named as successor to Doug Kelly former president and CEO
of the Imperial Home Décor Group, Inc. (IHDG), Cleveland, OH. In July,
Kelly announced he would vacate both his position on the board of directors and
within the IHDG organization.
Green has been a member of IHDG’s board of directors for the past three
years and also is president of EIG Management, Inc., a Boca Raton, FL-based firm
that specializes in interim management and consulting.
Kelly joined IHDG in May 2000 and successfully led the company through a Chapter
11 restructuring and operational rationalization.
MOODY JOINS TECHNIKU SALES TEAM
Techniku, Inc., Broomfield, CO, announces the addition of Scott Moody as its
new Western Region Sales Manager. He will be responsible for sales and support
for the company’s customers located across the Midwest, Northwest and Southwest
territories.
Based in Dallas, TX, Moody joins Techniku with a strong sales and marketing background
in the medical equipment industry. Previously with STI Medical he was the Midwest
Regional Sales Manager.
LUTRON’S SPIRA RECEIVES HONORY DEGREE
Joel S. Spira, founder and chairman of Lutron Electronics Co., Inc., Coopersburg,
PA, has been awarded an Honorary Doctor of Engineering Degree from Purdue University.
The degree was awarded at Purdue’s May commencement exercises at its West
Lafayette, IN, campus.
A 1948 graduate of Purdue, Spira earned a bachelor’s degree in physics,
as well as Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA,
and Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA. Spira is also a member of the prestigious
National Academy of Engineering.
HFPA ANNOUNCES HOMETEX AWARD HONOREES
The Home Fashion Products Association (HFPA) has announced the slate of honorees
for its annual HomeTex Design Awards. A gala ceremony will be held later this
month at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.
The honorees are: Janet Barragan, vice president, CHF Industries; The Echo Design
Group, Inc.; Michael Fux, president and CEO, Sleep Innovations Inc.; and Megan
Tamaccio, design director, Disney Home, WestPoint Stevens Inc.
According to HomeTex Award Chairman, Robert Dale (WestPoint Stevens), “All
the honorees have made a tremendous impact in the design and marketing of home
textiles.”
The HomeTex Design Award honors design professionals who have made a creative
or innovative impact to design and development in the home textiles industry.
HFPA also announces that industry veteran Park B. Smith, president, Park B. Smith,
Inc., will be honored with the organization’s highest honor, the Paradigm
Award. The award recognizes an individual whose distinguished achievement and
excellence in innovative merchandising and marketing of home textiles has set
a standard in the industry.
In selecting Smith for this award, Dale stated, “Park’s dedication
to and love of our industry is unparalleled. He is a true leader in the business
and a terrific role model for those who have worked beside him.”
The Paradigm Award was first awarded in 1996.
PARDO NAMED DIRECTOR AT COVINGTON CONTRACT
Maria T. Pardo, a vice president of Covington Industries Inc. and the national
sales manager of Covington Industrial Contract, has been named to direct Covington
Industries Contract, New York, NY. In this capacity she will oversee sales, product
development and merchandising of fabrics for the specialized hospitality and
health care industries.
Pardo began her textile business career in the late 1970s at WestPoint Pepperell/J.
P. Stevens in its international sales division. In the late 1980s she was named
export manager at Hoffman Mills and later director of international sales at
Covington Fabrics.
Covington Industries Contract supplies both printed and woven fabrics that meet
technical contract specifications. In addition, the department has the capability
of producing custom fabrics to meet specifier requirements. |
