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www.HotelMotel.com/digital_edition HotelMotel.com | H&MM November 19, 2007 Supplier News to it, delivering natural and permanent protection from odor and bacteria. The company also announced that Adam Briel is joining its hospitality sales division to focus on developing programs to increase guest satisfaction and decrease overall operating costs for hospitality customers. Steven Abourisk is the new president/c.e.o. of Kenilworth Trading Co., a tableware company headquartered in Newell, W. Va., that offers premium European-inspired collections to the upscale hospitality market. Settle Inn, LLC, chose InnLink Central Reservation Services as its provider for GDS, Internet and channel distribution services for the Settle Inn & Suites brand, beginning Nov. 1. InnLink already was the provider for the company’s GuestHouse International and Shoney’s Inns brands. Arthur Blank & Co., a North American producer of privatelabel plastic cards, moved into new ofﬁce space in. Still located at 225 Rivermoor St., Boston, the ofﬁces are situated above the card manufacturing plant, which will allow the company to better receive customers. Compiled by Stephanie Ricca, sricca@questex.com 21 American of Martinsville named Leo A. Vogel senior v.p. of sales and marketing. Vogel most recently was director of sales and marketing for the contract division of Sealy. Spectrum Design Services, the interior design division of mbi | k2m Architecture, has been approved as a vendor for Hilton brand hotels and will be added to the Suppliers’ Corner, which allows franchisees, their designers and contractors to view vendor information relating to designing, building and equipping a hotel. Peerless Industries celebrated 10 years of participation in the Client Test Data Program for Underwriters Laboratories. Samsung’s Staron Solid Surface material, including the new Staron Tempest line and its all-acrylic sinks and bowls, has been granted Greenguard certiﬁcation by the Greenguard Environmental Institute. result, beneﬁcially own about 42 percent of the common stock of Lighting Science Group on a fully diluted basis. The combined entity will retain the Lighting Science Group name. Govi Rao, president and c.e.o. of LED Holdings will serve as the new company’s c.e.o. EcoRooms & EcoSuites, a division of Pineapple Hospitality, added Jenn Holderied-Webb, John. R. Hendrie and Stephen Tagliatela to its board of advisers. EcoRooms & EcoSuites is an online directory of environmentally responsible hotels, motels, inns and B&Bs. Avendra appointed Tim Clarke as v.p., strategic markets. He will oversee Avendra’s growth into recently expanded target market segments, including casinos, cruise lines, colleges and universities and other speciﬁc hospitality segments. Manitowoc Foodservice Group announced the following appointments: Dean M. Landeche, v.p. of marketing; and John Trotter, v.p. of sales – Americas. PhoneSuite appointed Steve Bettencourt as v.p. of sales. He initially will focus on expanding the company’s channel marketing programs throughout North America. Also, the company set records in units shipped and volume in June, and August sales exceeded June’s by nearly 20 percent. Centergistic Solutions, a global provider of enterprise performance management software solutions for the contact center, announced it more than doubled proﬁts for its ﬁscal year, which ended June 30. The company also announced Scott Davis was appointed chief customer ofﬁcer. RedX Distribution Management System as its single distribution platform, connecting Nylo to all distribution channels, including GDS and leading online travel sites. Valley Forge Fabrics debuted its second FRESH (Fabrics Redeﬁning Environmental Standards (for) Hospitality) collection. Many of the designs in The Celerie Collection for FRESH and The Palm Beach Collection for FRESH are 100-percent post-consumer recycled polyester. A portion of all FRESH fabrics’ proceeds will be donated to an environmental charity chosen by those designers who speciﬁed FRESH fabric for their projects. W.A.C. Lighting appointed Molly McGee as product designer. McGee will work on new designs and additions to the ﬁrm’s lines of decorative and performance-oriented luminaires. The Mansion on Peachtree, A Rosewood Hotel, will include VisionArt, custom-made ﬁne art television concealment systems, in its property. VisionArt’s highquality system conceals plasma, LCD televisions and electronics behind framed ﬁne art prints. Bittel USA, a Roseville, Calif.based distributor of guestroom telephones, announced that industry veterans Richard Reyer and Dick Wheeler have joined the company as vice presidents of sales. Larry Chevalier, senior v.p. of the ofﬁce sales and leasing division of Colliers Turley Martin Tucker in Minneapolis, received the Mid-Continent Chapter of the Society of Industrial and Ofﬁce Realtors’ Robert P. Boblett Award. The award is presented annually to an industry leader who has made a signiﬁcant contribution to the commercial real-estate industry, SIOR and the greater community. Empex Watertoys completed its new Mini Waterpark concept for hotels and resorts at the Holiday Inn Sunspree in Panama City, Fla. Maytag celebrated the 100th birthday of its ﬁrst washing machine during a party at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry in October. LED Holdings and Lighting Science Group have combined companies. LED Holdings contributed all of its assets, including $15 million in cash, to Lighting Science Group in exchange for stock. Afﬁliates of Pegasus Captial Advisors, LP, are the largest owners of LED holdings, and will, as a Tim Russell, 33, who was a sales representative for Lochinvar Corp., died Sept. 14, after a short battle with cancer. United Feather & Down introduced SilverFill with X-STATIC during the 2007 IH/M&RS in November. XSTATIC is a patented ﬁber with pure silver permanently bonded Nylo Hotels has selected SynXis, the Sabre Holdings business that provides hotel distribution and Internet marketing services, to launch its brand. The new lifestyle hotel company will use the CIRCLE NO. 113 http://HotelMotel.com http://www.HotelMotel.com/digital_edition http://www.hotelfitnessclub.com http://www.hotelfitnessclub.com

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