{"id":246,"date":"2013-03-09T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T04:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/?p=246"},"modified":"2013-03-09T09:48:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T04:18:39","slug":"hodges-plans-to-stay-active-in-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/hodges-plans-to-stay-active-in-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Hodges plans\u00c2\u00a0to stay active in industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retires from Master Design<br \/>\nONTARIO, Calif. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Gene Hodges says he intends to stay active in the industry, even though he has retired as president of case goods and occasional importer Master Design.<br \/>\n<!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p>Hodges left the company last week. He had led Master Design since returning to the company in 2004, and earlier served as president and CEO from 1999 to 2002.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p> Chester Lee, president of Test Rite USA, part of Master Design\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Taiwan-based parent company Test Rite Products, will lead Master Design for now.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We appreciate the tremendous efforts and the contribution Gene has made to the company over the years,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Lee. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He is well respected in the industry and has always been highly regarded at Test Rite. We wish him good fortune and continued success in the future.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Before returning to Master Design in 2004, Hodges had been president and CEO of importer Asia Link. Before first joining Master Design in 1999, he worked in various posts at Magnussen Presidential, now Magnussen Home Furnishings, leaving as executive vice president of sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retires from Master Design ONTARIO, Calif. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Gene Hodges says he intends to stay active in the industry, even though he has retired as president of case goods and occasional importer Master Design. Hodges left the company last week. He had led Master Design since returning to the company in 2004, and earlier served as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}