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Celebrating New Licensing Partnerships

ORIENTAL WEAVERS CELEBRATES NEW LICENSING AGREEMENT WITH TOMMY BAHAMA


The folks from Nebraska Furniture Mart in Omaha join the festivities honoring the new Tommy Bahama licensed collection at Oriental Weavers, from left: Steve Riley and David Snedecker, Nebraksa Furnitrure Mart; Craig Johnson of Oriental Weavers; Pattie Wojtkiewicz, NFM rug buyer and Butch Rives of OW.

Sam Belak, left, and Steve Hubbart, right, of Oriental Weavers, right, with Bill Martin, Adrienne Wooddell and Randy Kremer of Rugs Direct, Winchester, VA.
 

Casey Culberson, center, of Kirkland's in Nashville, with Stuart McBrayer, left, and Jonathon Witt of Oriental Weavers.


From left: Butch Rives and Tammy Washburn of Oriental Weavers; Jean Harrison of Darvin Furniture, Orland Park, IL, and Craig Johnson of Oriental Weavers. 

COURISTAN WELCOMES EMMA GARDNER AS NEW LICENSING PARTNER

Ron Couri, left, and Emma Gardner, at Market Party introducing Couristan's Emma at Home licensed collection.


Emma Gardner, left, and Couristan's Steve Codella, right, welcome Bloomingdale's Soydaner Akis and buyer Maria Conrad.

 Couristan's Russel Stacy, left, and Emma Gardner welcome Kevin Mauseth and Allen Anderson of Anderson Retail, Hattiesburg, MS


Mitchell and Edward Garabedian of Thorndike Mills, Palmer, MA, at the Couriston party.

Gilbert Cavaliero, vice president and divisional merchandise manager for Bloomingdale's with Couristan president and ceo Ron Couri.

 

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At Safavieh: Masako Hosono and John P. Chang of Lowes. with Safavieh principal  Arash Yaraghi and senior accounts manager Mike Wolf.


At LR Resources: Billy Kilgore, left, flooring consultant of Carpets of Dalton, Dalton, GA, with Mike Thompson, national sales manager of LR Resources.

 
The gang from the Mink Organization, which operates the Macy's rug operations coast to coast, visit the Amer showroom. From left: Henry Ward, Richard Kennedy, Dotty Mink, Dutch Mink, Janice Mink, Fred Mink, Tanuj and Monika Gupta of Amer, and David Mink.      

 Cameron Capel, vice president of national accounts for Capel and Susan Hable, a principal of Hable Construction, which joined the Capel family of licensing partners in October.


 Asha Chaudhary, ceo of Jaipur, welcomes Bill Doyle of Bradford Interiors, Nashville.

 Richard Kirishian, left, of Imported Rug Co., Spokane, WA, visits with Reza Momeni, president of Momeni.

At Safavieh-Christina Lugo of Neiman Marcus, Dallas, with Safavieh's Yervant Varjabedian.



 Matthew Rouhanian, second right, president of Dynamic welcomes the buying staff from Jordan's Furniture, Boston. From left, Jeff Dawkins, Rhonda McMann, Tammy Whittaker, Rouhanian, and Josh Tatelman.

 At Kaleen, from left: Blake Dennard, Kaleen senior vice president; Mike Lawrence, Kaleen rep; David Young, Chris Fonville, Doug Peeples and Rick Myers, all of Myers Carpet of Atlanta and Dalton, GA;and Grey Christie, Kaleen regional vice president.

Stan Topol, center, Stan Topol Associates, Atlanta, with Greg Jordt, vp of sales and marketing for Harounian Rugs International, and Lee Harounian, a principal of HRI.

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 From left: Amy Maxwell and Annette Dowd of Xenia, Milwaukee, with Jane Reed of Surya amd  Satya Tiwari, president of Surya.


 Jim and Carolyn Bentley of Bentley Carpets, were visiting Surya from Birmingham, AL.

 Kurt Von de Bur, vp, and Susan Halley head the national accounts division of Surya.

 Gary Nickolie, center, of Kohl's Milwaukee, with Colette Cochran, LR Resources Rep and Krishna Laddha, president of LR Resources.

 Woody Carrick of Area Rug Connection, Bend, OR, with Aria Momeni, vice president of Momeni.

Mauricio Cobayan, left, and Ramin Mobayan of Mobayan Rugs. Ramin is part of the West Coast group of importers which run the Rug Show @ Javits in October. The Rug Show in LA is scheduled for March 1 to 4, 2014.
 

 Rick Tippin, left,  of Orian, is visited by Randy and Sharon Esco of The Depot, Montgomery, AL. Orian is celebrating its 35th anniversary. 


 At Pasargad: Beni Esfahany, left, and Edward Isfahany.
 

Bryon Hamilton, left, and Danny Shafiian of French Accents and Tapestries, Inc.

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 RIBBON CUTTINGS AND PARTIES
CELEBS, NEW SHOWROOM OPENINGS
ADD EXCITEMENT TO ATLANTA MARKET

Kathy Ireland is Star of Nourison Party
 
Execs from The Mink Organization with Nourison Licensing partner Kathy Ireland. From left, David and Dutch Mink; Kathy Ireland, Fred Mink and Richard Kennedy. The Mink Organization operates Macy's rug department  which operates Macy's rug departments coast to coast.

Gerard O'Keefe, left, sales vp of Nourison with Elaine Minter and Mary John Minter of Furnitureland South, Jamestown, NC; Mina Peykar, head of the Mina Victory Pillow collection, and Alex Peykar, principal of Nourison.

John, Lucy and Jesse Murse, the Rugs As Art team from Sarasota, FL. Rugs as Art was one of the first rug stores to diversify into home accents products.

Nourison execs Andrew Peykar, left, vice president; Julie Rosenblum, executive director of brand licensing, and Stephen Peykar, Nourison principal.

Nourison sales rep Jack Nakeshian with Igor Yakovenko,  buyer for the Air Base Carpet Mart chain based in New Castle, DE.

Jeff Gonzalez, director of furniture store sales for Nourison, with Maria Conrad, rug buyer for Bloomingdale's

You must know how gracious Kathy Ireland is when she consents to having her picture taken with such a dork. Lissa Wyman, editor and publisher of Rugnews.com is looking mighty smug at the honor.
 

Donny Osmond and wife Debbie Osmond
Do Ribbon Cutting Honors
at New Kas Showroom Featuring New Pillow and Decorative Home Collections

Donny Osmond and wife do the ribbon cuting honors at  Kas's new Fourth Floor showroom while the Kas exec team and Mart management cheers them on. The Kas Donny Osmond Home collection will make its debut in April.


Rakesh and Dolly Agarwal and daughter Aanchal Gupta from Rug & Home, with stores in Asheville, NC, Gaffney, SC and Kannapolis, NC. Rug & Home has been selling both rugs and decorative home products for over ten years.

Steve Roan, left, vice president of sales and marketing for Kas greets Lara Pfeiffer, Joe Mascari and Katie Mascari of Joe Mascari's Carpets and Rugs International, Allentown, PA

Santhi Yarlagadda, center, vice president of business development for Kas, with Randy Kramer, left, and Bill Martin of Rugs Direct, Winchester, VA.

Lissa Wyman, left, editor and publisher of Rugnews.com shares a hug with Wendy Reiss, vp of key accounts for Kas.

Loloi Opens New Multi-Product Showroom on Americasmart's Fourth Floor

Loloi ribbon cutting, from left: Amir and wife Susan Loloi; Chas Sydney, retired AmericasMart exec; Cyrus Loloi, Steven Loloi, AmericasMart president Jeff Portman and Kevin Michniski, vp of rug leasing at AmericasMart.

Austin Craley, vice president of sales for Loloi with Sam Presnell, owner of The Rug Gallery in Cincinnati.


Veteran sales rep Handsome Herb Cantor is surrounded by his girlfriends Iriz Mendez, left, and Wendy Fried of G. Fried, Westbury, NY.

Keith Arlinghaus,  left, northeast sales manager for Loloi, with Susie Axelrad, vice president of merchandising, and Joe Poklop, buyer, for Lewis Floor & Home, Northbrook, IL.


Beth Wess, left, Interior design consultant for Sacksteder's Interiors, New Trenton, IN; Valerie Jacobs of Loloi and Karen Sacksteder of Sacksteder's.

See ya in Las Vegas!

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