Briefly
Staff -- Gifts & Decorative Accessories, 7/1/2004
- Stationery and giftware resource Punch Studio, Culver City, CA, named Barbara Rosenberg
national sales manager. Rosenberg most recently served as national sales manager for Lady Jayne Ltd.
World Market Center,
Las Vegas, the home furnishings showroom complex currently under construction, appointed Briana Mackey
director of market operations. Mackey was most recently director of marketing for the Columbus MarketPlace, Columbus, OH.
- After ten years of going it alone, the Ulster Linen Company, Islip, NY, and Ulster Weavers Giftware
joined forces again as Ulster Linen becomes the exclusive distributor of Ulster Weavers. Both companies have their roots in the 150-year-old Ulster Weaving Co. Ltd. of Northern Ireland.
KJS Canada Inc.
acquired the operations of OPICE Inc.
and International Candle Enterprises Inc., Port Perry, ON. KJS also owns Style and Paper Inc., a Montreal-based supplier of fine stationery and gift items. KJS will set up a new company, Style & Candles Enterprises Inc., to promote ICE brand candles.
- The Department of Commerce recalculated the anti-dumping duty on Chinese petroleum-based candles from 95.95 percent to 108.3 percent, according to the National Candle Association.
AMC Inc.'s Virginia Gorday
was nducted into the YWCA of Greater Atlanta's Academy of Women Achievers.
North American Bear Co.
moved its headquarters from the Chicago Sun-Times building to 1200 W. 35th Street, Chicago.
Figi, San Diego, promoted Janet Blackmon
to national and key account executive. A Figi employee since 2000, Blackmon will service national and key accounts on the West Coast.
The Boyds Collection, Gettysburg, PA, elected ten board members at its annual shareholders' meeting. Three new directors are Ed Artzt, retired CEO of Procter & Gamble; and Brian F. Carroll
and Simon E. Brown, investment bankers with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), the company's largest shareholder.
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