{"id":4455,"date":"2014-07-19T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T03:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/07\/19\/sealy-veteran-smith-to-head-international-bedding\/"},"modified":"2014-07-19T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T03:05:10","slug":"sealy-veteran-smith-to-head-international-bedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/sealy-veteran-smith-to-head-international-bedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Sealy veteran Smith to head International Bedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today,<br \/>\nMost recently was exec at Sealy Canada<\/p>\n<p>FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Sealy veteran Tony Smith has been named president and CEO of International Bedding Corp., a Top 10 bedding producer based here. He replaces IBC founder Leon Ellman, who left the company in May.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Ellman family has built a company well known in the industry for quality, value and extraordinary support for its retail partners,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Smith said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am very pleased to be associated with IBC and I look forward to working with our executive team, employees and customers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><\/p>\n<p> Tom Taylor, managing director of Sun Capital Partners, said Smith brings the right blend of experience to IBC \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to re-focus the company on its core competencies and strategic objectives in preparation for IBC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future growth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Smith is a 27-year veteran of the bedding and furniture industry. He spent 22 years with Sealy, most recently as chief operating officer of Sealy Canada. Before that he was regional vice president of Sealy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s western division. He served as a bedding buyer for Gimbels Department Stores before joining Sealy in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>IBC was acquired by an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furniture Today, Most recently was exec at Sealy Canada FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Sealy veteran Tony Smith has been named president and CEO of International Bedding Corp., a Top 10 bedding producer based here. He replaces IBC founder Leon Ellman, who left the company in May. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Ellman family has built a company well known [&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-4455","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\/4455","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=4455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}