{"id":4447,"date":"2014-07-18T07:40:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T02:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/07\/18\/greenhouse-design-irvin-alan-merge\/"},"modified":"2014-07-18T07:40:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T02:10:52","slug":"greenhouse-design-irvin-alan-merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/greenhouse-design-irvin-alan-merge\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenhouse Design, Irvin Alan merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabric company will be based in High Point<\/p>\n<p>HIGH POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Greenhouse Design and Irvin Alan Design have merged into one company under the name Greenhouse Design, to be headquartered here.\u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n \u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\nGreenhouse Design and Irvin Allen already had the same ownership. With the merger, the company will have 70 employees at the High Point operation, 15 of which are new jobs for the city, transferred from Irvin Alan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s former location in Grand Rapids, Mich.<br \/>\n                         <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nAbout 95% of the new company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fabrics are for residential home furnishings.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that combining warehouse facilities, shipping practices and other operations signals a shift in industry dynamics to operate more efficiently, and assures customers they will continue to see the products.<br \/>\n \u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bringing the entire operation to High Point, the home furnishings capital of the world, will only enhance our leading position within the fabrics industry,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Ryan McCullough, vice president of sales, who was formerly with Irvin Alan. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The combination gives us the opportunity and resources to push for more market share and name recognition under one brand.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n \u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n Irvin Alan, a fabric brand for more than 100 years, rolled out a line of designer fabrics in early 2012 that aligned well with the products of Greenhouse Design, the companies said. As a result, the synergy between the two companies continues to grow.<br \/>\n \u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Greenhouse and Irvin Alan share similar characteristics,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said President Mike Bivins, who has been based here with Greenhouse. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Having them both under one roof in High Point will be beneficial to both our customers and an efficient bottom line.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n \u00c2\u00a0<br \/>\n The company said it will continue to offer same-day shipping of fabric orders and quarter-yard samples as part of its high-end customer service portfolio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabric company will be based in High Point HIGH POINT \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Greenhouse Design and Irvin Alan Design have merged into one company under the name Greenhouse Design, to be headquartered here.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 Greenhouse Design and Irvin Allen already had the same ownership. With the merger, the company will have 70 employees at the High Point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-indonesia-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","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=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}