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People on the Move

By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, April 20, 2003

Officers/Directors
Honors
Marketing/Sales
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Officers/Directors

Hardwood Manufacturers Assn.

Pittsburgh — The Hardwood Manufacturers Assn. has elected new officers and directors for 2003.

The officers are Dan Harrison, Cersosimo Lumber Co., Brattleboro, Vt., president; Jeff Hanks, Bill Hanks Lumber Co., Danbury, N.C., first vice president; and Tony Parks, Anderson-Tully Co., Vicksburg, Miss.

New members of the board of directors are Bill Rosenberry, Carl Rosenberry & Sons Lumber, Fort Loudon, Pa.; Ron Gelbrich, Cascade Hardwood, Chehalis, Wash.; Lyman Shipley, Coastal Lumber Co., Weldon, N.C.; Charlie Netterville, Fred Netterville Lumber Co., Woodville, Miss.; Herbert Kwasniewski, J.C. Lumber Co., Elkins, W.Va.; Paul Johnson, Johnson Bros. Lumber Co., Cazenovia, N.Y.; Jim DePerri, Monadnock Forest Products, Jaffrey, N.H.; John Jones, Ward Timber Co., Linden, Texas; and Al Whitson Jr., Whitson Lumber Co., Clarksville, Tenn.

Members of the executive committee, in addition to the officers, are Charlie Netterville; Orn Gudmundsson, Northland Corp., LaGrange, Ky.; Jameson French, Northland Forest Products, Kingston, N.H.; David Weyerhaeuser, Northwest Hardwoods, Federal Way, Wash.; Pem Jenkins, Turn Bull Lumber Co., Elizabethtown, N.C.; Bill Buchanan Jr., Buchanan Lumber Birminhgam, Aliceville, Ala., as past president.

Honors

Int'l Wood Products Assn.

Alexandria, Va. — Henry Stoll, director of the Interafrican Forest Industries Assn. and president of Congolaise Industrielle de Bois, has been honored by the International Wood Products Assn. with its Distinguished Service Award for his work in the tropical timber industry.

His company decided in 2001 not to log the Goualogo Triangle, one of the last rainforests in Africa, giving up its legal rights. It was the first time a timber company working in Africa had voluntarily turned over virgin forest in the name of conservation.

Marketing/Sales

Foamex International

Linwood, Pa. — Vishal Malhotra has been named director of marketing at supplier Foamex.

He is responsible for business growth planning, new market development, developing and implementing marketing and communications strategies, and foam product management.

Malhotra previously worked at Ansell.

Kingsdown

Mebane, N.C. — Bedding maker Kingsdown has added several sales associates. They are Michael Allen, North Carolina; Tom Atkins, Central Florida; Arlene Crampton, Michigan; Jason Hodge, New York; Cassandra Hogan, Michigan; Scott Presley, Indiana; John Shirley, Georgia; Andrew Stimeling, Pennsylvania; and Rob Shaner, Australia.

Contact us

Retailers, manufacturers, suppliers and trade associations are invited to send releases and photographs for appointments, promotions and awards to: People/Today, P.O. Box 2754, High Point, N.C. 27261. Releases also can be faxed to (336) 605-1143. Please include a contact phone number. If you have questions about People/Today, call Fran Marshall at (336) 605-1044 or e-mail her at fmarshall@reedbusiness.com.

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