{"id":2483,"date":"2013-11-02T11:16:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T05:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/11\/02\/bob-choppa-joins-lexington-home-brands\/"},"modified":"2013-11-02T11:16:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T05:46:39","slug":"bob-choppa-joins-lexington-home-brands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/bob-choppa-joins-lexington-home-brands\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Choppa joins Lexington Home Brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THOMASVILLE, N.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bob Choppa, enlisted by Thomasville Furniture Inds. in late 2004 as senior vice president of upholstery                         <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nmerchandising, left the company last week to join Lexington Home Brands.<\/p>\n<p>He is vice president and general manager of upholstery operations for LHB, a new position. He reports to President and CEO Phil Haney.<\/p>\n<p> At Thomasville, Choppa was responsible for upholstery merchandising and marketing. He previously was senior vice president of upholstery marketing at Century, which he joined in 1986. Choppa was also a sales representative and a regional manager at Hickory Tavern, which at the time was a division of Lane Furniture.<\/p>\n<p>Choppa is the latest in several recent personnel moves at Lexington, a Sun Capital Partners affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>Haney, a former Stanley Furniture executive, joined the company as president and CEO in September, replacing Bob Stec.<\/p>\n<p>This month, Stanley veteran Robert Sitler joined Lexington as vice president of global sourcing, a new position, and Katrina Patton, former vice president of merchandising for the Royal Patina\/Progressive divisions of Sauder Woodworking, was named vice president of product development. She replaced Todd Banik.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THOMASVILLE, N.C. \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bob Choppa, enlisted by Thomasville Furniture Inds. in late 2004 as senior vice president of upholstery<\/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-2483","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\/2483","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=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}