Lifestyle promotes Wampler
Thomas Russell -- Furniture Today, October 3, 2005
High Point — Lifestyle Enterprise has promoted John Wampler to president of residential case goods, a new position at the company.
Wampler, a former president of case goods suppliers Progressive Furniture and Pulaski Furniture, joined Lifestyle in 2004 as president of its higher-end Forbidden City division.
Wampler still holds that position, but now also will oversee product development in all of Lifestyle's case goods companies. They include Lifestyle, which has promotional to medium-priced products with five-piece bedrooms ranging from $899 to $2,999, and Forbidden City with medium- to upper-priced goods including bedrooms starting at $3,999.
The company also sells residential case goods through its Mass Merchants and National Accounts divisions.
Wampler's promotion is the second major personnel change Lifestyle has made this summer. In July it named Howard Slavin as president of its Shanghai Leather division.
Wampler and Slavin report to Greg Noe, Lifestyle Enterprise Group president and chief operating officer. Noe said the changes place individuals in areas where they have the most product knowledge.
"The way we have positioned our management team, we have someone with extensive leather and upholstery experience and someone with extensive background and knowledge in case goods, and that has us well positioned going into the future," Noe said.
