Announcements

The parent company of the 3Form (Hunter Douglas) acquired Veritas a while back, but was maintaining a seperate branding and representation strategy.  It has, however, become clear that the Veritas brand will be faded out at the end of the year, and the product offerings rolled into the…

Sara Forsyth of Mimosa Cove Design Resources has decided to pursue a graduate degree.  For information related to any of the Mimosa Cove lines, you can contact Carol Ranno (csranno@aol.com)

The following is the text from a press release regarding the sale of Interface to a Venture Capitol group in conjuction with the previous management team led by Anthony Minite.

 

Dear Valued Interface Customer:

Our parent company Interface, Inc. has agreed…

Tara Rohland (formerly with David Burrows, LTD) has joined Michael Polovina and the rest of the combined HBF-Gunlocke team in Washington DC.  Having represented HBF during per tenure with DBL, Tara brings familiarity with the line and experience in the demanding nature of architectural…

Cristina Rocconi, and experienced designer formerly with Burt Hill & Stantec, has joined the architectural sales team at Teknion.  She will be focused mostly on design firms in the DC and Arlington areas.

Caryl Mason, an experienced architectural sales rep had recently joined Mechoshade and will be responsible for the Northern Virginia and DC regions.  Her contact information is as follows:

Caryl Mason
Business Development Manager

Many of you may remember Chris Quinn in his role with Wilsonart, and later as the main contact for Silestone.  He is bringing his expertise and high level of service to architects and designers though a new role with Marva Marble.  Marva sells and fabricates stone, and also…

The parent company of Gunlocke (HNI) purchased HBF a while back; and the parent company decided on a national basis that they would move representation of the HBF lines (furniture & textiles) from independent reps to the representatives for Gunlocke.  This change is officially supposed…

We learned from one of the last employees at NOOD, that they discontinued all styles as of the end of January 2012 and have no plans to re-introduce the line. 

Barbara Shipley is no longer representing Wilsonart Laminate through Reico Distributors.  Reico has taken on the distributorship of the Nevamar/Pionite laminate lines.  Barbara  will now be representing those lines. 
Michael Milner continues to be the…

One of our local Johnsonite sales reps, Elizabeth Turner, has taken on a new role with the company.  For the time being, Donna Sisson, well be taking over all of the local architecture/design accounts. You can find Donna's contact info in the following link :…

Our lead librarian, Lynne Boyle, had been hearing rumors that the carpet manufacturer, NOOD was potentially going out of business.  So she picked up the phone and called them directly to get the scoop.  The service representative informed Lynne that there were minimums of 2500 sq/yds…