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Bill Suplee Joins Hearth & Home

GILFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

Hearth & Home is pleased to announce that Bill Suplee has joined Village West Publishing/Hearth & Home as an account executive. He will be working directly with manufacturers in the hearth, patio and barbecue industries, helping them to structure Marketing/Advertising programs in the magazine and on the web.

 

Suplee's background is in advertising sales, marketing and consulting. He has worked with companies large and small, helping them design sales strategies for B2B and B2C advertising campaigns nationwide. He brings a great deal of experience to the account executive position.

 

A long-time resident of New Hampshire, he enjoys leisure time at the beach on Lake Winnisquam, listening to jazz or reading a book. He and his wife Cindy enjoy spending time with their four children.

 

 

Sphinx to Partner with Pantone

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

 

Sphinx by Oriental Weavers is delighted to announce its new color partnership with Pantone, the global authority on all things color and the leading provider of professional color standards for the design community. Together, Sphinx and Pantone will embark on a multi-year venture to deliver fashion-forward color trends and innovative style and design to the home fashion industry through the PANTONE UNIVERSE brand.

 

Sphinx is well known as the industry leader with their innovative style, cutting-edge designs, avid colors and stirring rug collections. By joining with Pantone's inspiring and extensive color direction, Sphinx will continue to revolutionize the area and fashion rug business to deliver exhilarating decorative accessories to the home furnishings and design community.

 

"We are truly honored to be selected as a brand partner by the world's foremost color experts," said Michael Riley, president of OW USA. "We have very aggressive plans for a spectacular offering of fashion product developed in conjunction with the Pantone team and targeted toward our retail partners in the home furnishings business.

 

"The synergies between Pantone, their consumer reach, our home furnishings base and the OW Team is just tremendous and will be key in our development, marketing, merchandising and advertising efforts. Joining with Pantone enables us to continue our vision of creating products that astonish consumers and create captivating stories for the retailer.

 

"Our new PANTONE UNIVERSE collections will go beyond expressing color and take us into the bold new forefront of embracing a high-definition of design."

 

Sphinx will be unveiling its first new product offerings combining the insightful and expressive PANTONE Colors along with captivating designs this summer.

 

"As the world's color authority for 50 years, partnering with a fashion-forward area rug company will really round out our home furnishings assortment for the brand," said Lisa Herbert, vice president of the consumer division at Pantone. "We have a great energy with the Sphinx creative teams and have impressive plans to create cutting-edge product that will truly have an impact at retail."