People on the Move
By Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, May 22, 2006
Executives
Insta-rent
EDMONTON — Rentcash has hired former Easyhome executive Bill Johnson as president and chief operating officer of Insta-rent, its furniture and furnishings rental division.
Johnson spent a decade as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Easyhome, the largest rent-to-own merchant in Canada.
"His rental background and knowledge of the rental industry will be instrumental in taking Insta-rent to the next level, which could include a restructuring of the rental business or other strategic alternatives that the board of directors of Rentcash may review," said Gordon Reykdal, Rentcash's chairman and CEO.
Insta-rent rents furniture, appliances, electronics and computers with or without an option to purchase. Instead of operating freestanding stores, the company has kiosks in about 94 The Brick and United Furniture Warehouse locations in Canada.
Rentcash is the only publicly traded payday advance broker in Canada, with 322 outlets under The Cash Store and Instaloans banners.
Operations
Broyhill
LENOIR, N.C. — Broyhill Furniture Inds., has hired Rick Krebs as plant manager of its Chair Plant No. 55 here. He reports to Jim Price, senior vice president of upholstery manufacturing.
Krebs has more than 30 years of management experience in upholstery manufacturing at companies including Schweiger's and England.
PrimaryTrack
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —Sam Stitcher has joined software and systems provider Primary Tracking as director of sales engineering, with responsibility for designing engineering solutions for each customer's needs. He reports to Brad Mack, president and CEO.
Stitcher was vice president of operations for the National Home Furnishings Assn. from 2001 to 2005 and was a member of the Furniture Industry Data Exchange.
Primary Tracking, a Silk-Road Equity company, has the means to track assets, inventory and people. It provides technologies such as supply-chain RFID systems, warehouse management systems and supplies, and smart Web-based camera security systems.
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