{"id":510,"date":"2013-04-21T07:48:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-21T02:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/?p=510"},"modified":"2013-04-21T07:48:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-21T02:18:27","slug":"bateson-leaving-furniture-brands-unit-for-cfgroup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/bateson-leaving-furniture-brands-unit-for-cfgroup\/","title":{"rendered":"Bateson leaving Furniture Brands unit for CFGroup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Business Journal &#8211; April 13, 2013<\/p>\n<p> Seamus Bateson is leaving his post as president and CEO of a Furniture Brands International unit to take those titles at CFGroup.<\/p>\n<p> The companies issued separate releases on the move Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p> Furniture Brands said in a release that Jeff Young will be interim president of its Maitland-Smith division when Bateson leaves his post as president of the division April 21. In a statement, Young said the firm would begin a search immediately to fill the president&#8217;s post at Maitland-Smith.<br \/>\n <!--more--><br \/>\n Young will continue in his current role as president and chief executive of Furniture Brands&#8217; HDM Furniture Industries subsidiary, according to a company release. Maitland-Smith&#8217;s operations were among three consolidated under HDM in May 2012.<\/p>\n<p> Bateson, president of Maitland-Smith since 1999, will become president, CEO and chairman of St. Louis-based Commercial Furniture Group, or CFGroup, April 24, that firm said in a release. CFGroup offers commercial furniture brands Shelby Williams, Falcon, Howe, Thonet and EPIC.<\/p>\n<p>Publicly traded Falcon Products Inc. of St. Louis emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November as privately held CFGroup.<\/p>\n<p> St. Louis-based Furniture Brands International Inc. (NYSE: FBN) manufactures furniture under the Thomasville, Henredon, Drexel Heritage, Maitland-Smith, Broyhill and Lane brands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Business Journal &#8211; April 13, 2013 Seamus Bateson is leaving his post as president and CEO of a Furniture Brands International unit to take those titles at CFGroup. The companies issued separate releases on the move Wednesday. Furniture Brands said in a release that Jeff Young will be interim president of its Maitland-Smith [&hellip;]<\/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-510","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\/510","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=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}