{"id":3274,"date":"2014-02-13T10:33:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T05:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/02\/13\/gerety-joins-hunter-as-vp\/"},"modified":"2014-02-13T10:33:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T05:03:44","slug":"gerety-joins-hunter-as-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/gerety-joins-hunter-as-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerety joins Hunter as VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Brand strategy consulting firm Hunter has hired Shawn<br \/>\n             <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nGerety, a former furniture manufacturer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s representative and retailer, as vice president of sales for U.S. and international markets.<\/p>\n<p>Gerety said he hopes to bring Hunter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s expertise in building brands to the furniture industry.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;The more competitive the market, the greater the need for a strong brand,&#8221; he said. &#8220;From the first time I was exposed to Hunter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s process and saw it working, I thought about several furniture manufacturing companies that could really benefit from their services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gerety has represented Ashley, Largo, University Loft, Leather Italia, Incanto and Sleep Logic. He also owned and operated Pennsylvania retailer Homestyles Furniture.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter has been in business since 1986 and has worked with clients in a range of industries, including Nautica, Sears, Guess watches, Comcast, Temple University and Conestoga Wood Specialties.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter President John Willis said the firm has a process to help a company assess and establish its brand relevance and brand congruity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Brand relevance is simply stated as, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDoes anyone (customers and prospects) really care what my brand has to say?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 And then secondly, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIs how I want my brand to be perceived congruent with how it is seen from the customers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and prospects\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 perspective?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 When a brand is relevant and congruent, it will be successful,&#8221; said Willis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Brand strategy consulting firm Hunter has hired Shawn<\/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-3274","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\/3274","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=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}