{"id":2641,"date":"2013-11-15T12:40:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T07:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/11\/15\/simmons-hires-gary-matthews-as-president\/"},"modified":"2013-11-15T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T07:10:03","slug":"simmons-hires-gary-matthews-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/simmons-hires-gary-matthews-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Simmons hires Gary Matthews as president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today,<br \/>\nATLANTA \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bedding major Simmons Co. has hired Gary Matthews, former president of                         <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nspecialty bedding producer Sleep Innovations, as president.<\/p>\n<p>Matthews begins the job Dec. 1.<br \/>\n The president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s post at Simmons has been vacant since bedding industry veteran Bob Hellyer left the company in June 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are excited to have Gary join the Simmons team,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Charlie Eitel, chairman and CEO. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He has a track record of outstanding success in building and marketing brands and product lines in various industries.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Before joining Sleep Innovations, Matthews was president of the worldwide consumer medicines and specialty pharmaceuticals division of Bristol-Myers Squibb. Earlier, he was president and CEO of Derby Cycle Corp and held a similar post at Guinness Import Co.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today, ATLANTA \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Bedding major Simmons Co. has hired Gary Matthews, former president of<\/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-2641","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\/2641","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=2641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}