Woodmarc taps Jerry Ruff for CEO post
Dennis Donahue named CFO
Gary Evans -- Furniture Today, January 25, 2006
WINTERSET, Iowa -- Industry veteran Jerry Ruff has joined wood furniture manufacturer Woodmarc here as CEO.
He assumes some of the duties formerly held by Lou Jenright, the company’s president.
In addition, Dennis Donahue has been named chief financial officer, a new position. Previously, Donahue was CFO at Ello Furniture, where he worked for 16 years, and earlier spent 12 years in the financial community.
Ruff spent the past 18 months as director of the Furniture Enterprise Office of the North Carolina Department of Commerce. Previously, Ruff served as CEO of The Powell Co. and before that was president of Lane’s wood division.
Woodmarc, which manufactures and imports mid-priced bedroom furniture and entertainment systems, was created by the Merschman family in 1990 to provide furniture to the family’s Homemaker stores. Homemakers was later acquired as a division of Nebraska Furniture Mart, which sold Woodmarc to an investment group about a year ago.
While its core business is in the Midwest, the company also has a distribution center in Kent, Wash., and recently opened another in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. It has a 260,000-square-foot factory here with about 200 employees.
In Las Vegas, Woodmarc is showing at Mandalay Bay, space 60881, and plans to introduce two traditional cherry bedrooms and a contemporary entertainment system. The company also shows in High Point.
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