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The Buying Giant installs new officers

Group stages Buy Fair before Tupelo Furniture Market

Clint Engel -- Furniture Today, January 28, 2009

TUPELO, Miss. — The Buying Giant buying group installed officers here at a meeting before the Tupelo Furniture Market.

Officials and new officers of The Buying Giant buying group, seated at the table in front of other group members, are Bethel Poston, left, TBG; Bo Carey, Greer’s Furniture, Loudon, Tenn.; John Williams, Alamo Furniture Outlet, Alamo, Tenn.; Don Blalock, Morgan Furniture, Sparta, Tenn.; and Gary Edwards, TBG.

New officers serving one-year terms are Bo Carey, Greer's Furniture, Loudon, Tenn., president; John Williams, Alamo Furniture Outlet, Alamo, Tenn., vice president; Don Blalock, Morgan Furniture, Sparta, Tenn., secretary/treasurer; and Larry Stansell, Stansell Furniture, La Fayette, Ga., chairman.

TBG members elected the officers prior to the group's first pre-Tupelo Buy Fair here. The group's space in Building 5 was packed with special buys, according the Bethel Poston, TBG marketing director.

Members also shopped at market later as a group, visiting key supplier showrooms, and several said it was the best Tupelo market they had attended, according to Poston.

Gary Edwards, the group's executive director, said TBG's attendance was up from the previous markets and that interest in joining the group was "very encouraging."

TBG retailers operate 70 stores in Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama and Missouri. The group's next membership meeting is scheduled for March 18 in Gatlinburg, Tenn.

For more information, contact Edwards at (800) 861-1663, e-mail tbg05@bellsoutn.net; or Poston at (865) 882-6864, e-mail postonplace@bellsouth.net.

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