Gold Bond Provides Former Levitz President Ed Gilligan » BedTimes Journal
Unbiased mattress producer Gold Bond Mattress has employed Ed Gilligan, the previous president of Levitz Furnishings and senior service provider at Sears, to develop its market penetration within the Midwest.
Based on a information launch, Gilligan based his personal gross sales and advertising firm and consulted for house furnishing manufacturers together with Flexsteel Industries and Burlington Industries. Along with Gold Bond, he represents one other family-owned firm, Sunny Designs, which focuses on eating, leisure, house workplace, bed room, occasional and accent furnishings.
“Ed is likely one of the most revered veterans in our trade with a confirmed observe document of merchandising showroom flooring that generate door swings and better ticket gross sales. His contact checklist is in depth, and he instantly opens many new alternatives in part of the nation the place our model has been rising quickly over the previous a number of years,” stated Bob Naboicheck, CEO of Gold Bond, based mostly in Hartford, Connecticut.
Gilligan’s expertise contains 25 years at Sears, the place he held a number of key management roles, together with merchandise supervisor, personnel supervisor, senior purchaser and nationwide merchandise supervisor. He was then recruited as president and chief advertising officer at Levitz Furnishings Co., a place he held for 2 years, the information launch stated.
“I’ve watched Gold Bond’s success for a few years. Its dedication to high quality, customer support and coaching may be very distinctive in immediately’s market, and I consider it’s precisely what is required within the house furnishings trade proper now,” Gilligan stated. “Each vendor must be merchandising their flooring with product that can make extra margin for them. With fewer prospects strolling within the door, retailers should seize each sale and do it with product that they’ll earn a dwelling on and won’t be returned as a result of the standard is so good. That’s the Gold Bond story and I’m thrilled to now be telling that narrative to my contacts within the trade.”
