Heath E. Combs — Furniture Today
\nSmola retains broader sourcing, warehousing duties<\/p>\n
SEATTLE \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Crystal Nguyen has been promoted to director of product development for solid wood bedroom, dining and office resource A-America.<\/p>\n
Nguyen will have responsibility for managing the design process from concept to store floor. She has worked with the company for more than 10 years, starting as a part-time employee while she was a teenager.
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\n Nguyen was formerly product development and marketing manager. Most recently she managed merchandising activities for the A-America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four store retail division, Home Furniture.<\/p>\n
In her new post, she reports to A-America President Fred Rohrbach.<\/p>\n
In addition to her background at the company, Nguyen has worked for Nordstrom and several high-end stores. Her duties have included visual merchandising and display, buying, advertising and promotion and sales.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Crystal has a keen eye for trends and understands the dynamics of how furniture needs to work in the home and on the retailer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sales floor,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rohrbach said.<\/p>\n
Nguyen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new duties had been handled by Jeff Smola, senior vice president and manager of factory and production and overseas warehousing operations. Smola\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s responsibilities have increased as the company has begun sourcing from Vietnam, the company said.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve added a new dimension of complexity to sourcing with requirements by customers for shorter lead times and more mixability, and that, with the challenges of a new country, places much higher demands on Jeff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time. Crystal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s total emphasis on the design aspects frees Jeff to assume that larger role for the company,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Rohrbach said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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