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Buyer Appreciation Award goes to Ivan Smith Jr.

By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, March 3, 2002

TUPELO, Miss. — TUPELO, Miss. — Ivan Smith Jr., president of Ivan Smith Furniture, Shreveport, La., was honored with the Tupelo market's National Buyer Appreciation Award.

Founded by his father, the late Ivan Smith Sr., in 1961, the company operates 38 stores in 32 locations across Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas.

Smith bought the business from his father in 1976. A key to its success is its reliance on a central warehouse for all 38 sites.

Front row: Aileen Black, left, Betty Butler and Amy Black, all of Butler's Furniture, Athens, Ala.; back row: Randy Lann, left, Arkansas Homefurnishings Assn.; Catherine Villacorta, Supplier Capital; Pete Polk, Polk's Furniture City, Magnolia, Ark.; Don Hale, Diamond Agency; Happy Wade, Campbell Leather Sales.

Honoree Ivan Smith Jr., second from left, of Ivan Smith Furniture, Shreveport, La., with Tupelo Furniture Market associates Lori Gray, Kim Leathers and Nicole Graham.

David Rumberger, left, Community Development Foundation; Mississippi State Sen. Jack Gordon; V.M. Cleveland, Tupelo Furniture Market; Steve Terrell and Ivan Smith Jr., both of Ivan Smith Furniture, Shreveport. La.; Mississippi Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck; Harry Martin, Tupelo Furniture Marketing Assn.; Tupelo Mayor Larry Otis; Mississippi State Sen. Alan Nunnelee.

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