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N.C. governor presents Japan's leader with rocker

By Heath E. Combs -- Furniture Today, December 7, 2009

TROUTMAN, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue presented a Troutman Chair Presidential Rocker to Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama during a trade and cultural mission to Japan in October.

Hatoyama is an admirer of President John F. Kennedy, said Champ Land, president of Troutman Chair. The rocker is now in the Japanese prime minister's official residence.

The Presidential Rocker is a rocking chair made famous by President Kennedy. He found it comfortable for his back, which was left ailing after a war injury.

Troutman sells the rocker under the P&P Chair brand. Earlier this year, Troutman acquired assets of P&P, a North Carolina company that originated the Kennedy rocker but ceased production last December.

Troutman Chair also has expanded its relationship with the Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, Land said. The golfing resort will market the white Carolina Rocker by offering it through the shoppinehurst.com Web site and at its resort stores.

The white rocking chairs have lined the porches and verandas of Pinehurst Resort for over 75 years. Marketed as the Pinehurst Presidential Rocker, each white rocking chair will have a plaque with the trademarked Pinehurst logo and the name Pinehurst Presidential Rocker.

Also, Troutman said it has received approval from the Kennedy family to put the late president's photo on hangtags for the rocker.

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