Leadership Conference draws major bedding players
David Perry -- Furniture Today, December 12, 2011
NAPLES, Fla. - The mattress industry was strongly represented at Furniture/Today's Leadership Conference here, with top producers, retailers and suppliers in attendance.
On the producer front, executives with Sealy, Simmons, Serta, Tempur-Pedic, Kingsdown, Therapedic, Englander, Restonic, Advanced Sleep Concepts, E.S. Kluft, Southerland, Natura, Reverie, Ashley and Glideaway, among others, attended the conference. Serta and Therapedic were conference sponsors.
The mattress retail group was represented by Slumberland of Little Canada, Minn., Minneapolis-based airbed retailer Select Comfort, Bonita Springs, Fla.-based City Mattress, and the Ashley Furniture Home-Stores, based in Arcadia, Wis., among others.
Suppliers at the conference included a number of sponsors, among them Hickory Springs, Protect-ABed, and Leggett & Platt. Other industry suppliers in attendance included Colonial LLC, Wright of Thomasville, Culp, Ergomotion, Gotcha Covered and GBS Enterprises.
| Mark Dentale,
left, Natura; Gerry
Borreggine, Therapedic,
and Alan Eisenberg,
Protect-A-Bed. |
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Wes Keever, left, and
Mark Hobson, right,
both of Colonial LLC,
with Frank Hood and
Kevin Damewood, both
of Kingsdown. |
| Mark Quinn, left, Leggett & Platt, and John Rachid,
Serta. |
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Fred Starr, left, My Design; Bill Kimbrell, Star
Furniture, Houston, and Ron Passaglia, Restonic. |
| Stan Steinreich, left, Steinreich Communications,
and Kevin Toman, Englander. |
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Jodi Allen, left, Sealy; Dominick Azevedo,
Advanced Sleep Concepts, and Steve Rusing, Sealy. |
| Rob Culp, left, Culp, and Pete Bils, Select Comfort,
Minneapolis. |
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Dwayne Welch, executive vice president of Hickory Springs, joined Furniture/Today Editor in Chief Ray Allegrezza on the stage in saluting the Retailer of the Year, Havertys of Atlanta, and the Supplier of the Year, Ashley Furniture.
Also addressing the conference was Mark Quinn, segment vice president of marketing at Leggett & Platt, who congratulated the four retailers featured on a panel titled, "Game-Changers: When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going."
Quinn said the retailers on that panel - Jake Jabs of American Furniture Warehouse, Englewood, Colo.; Pedro Capo of El Dorado Furniture, Miami Gardens, Fla.; Kim Yost of Art Van Furniture, Warren, Mich.; and Michael O'Hanlon of Wayfair, Boston - stand out because they take responsibility for their success and have found ways to succeed even in tough economic times.
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