Hospitality Design - October 2016 - 6

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Q&A

with

brownlee currey
president, currey & company

What are some best practices you employ
in your business?
When it comes to lighting products, it is very
important to ensure that whoever you are
specifying is producing products that are UL/CUI
certified. It's not a mandatory practice for lighting
manufacturers, but we recommend adding it as a
mandatory specification to give you and your firm
an additional layer of quality and safety assurance.
All Currey & Company's lighting products are
designed and engineered to meet the rigid safety
standards established by UNDERWRITER'S
LABORATORY and bear the UL/CUI label
(E141302 or E163523). This UL/CLUI safety
certification is valid in the United States and
Canada. Currey & Company lighting products can
also be manufactured to meet lighting standards
around the world, including the European Union,
Middle East and Asia.

How do you see your company growing in
the next five years?

It's pretty simple, really: by staying focused on
the basics of good business. Our goal is to create a
product line that remains in-demand and relevant,
provide exemplary customer service and continue
to evolve our business processes to gain internal
efficiencies. The backbone of all of this is people.
We've had a lot of success over the years and none
of it would have happened without the passion
of our employees, the dedication of our partners
and of course, the customers who are drawn to us
and stay with us because of the experience we've
created.

What current trends are you keeping your
eye on?

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From a product design perspective, we really don't
pay too much attention to current trends. We are
a fashion-driven and designed product line, so
our inspiration comes from travel, experiences,
conversations, incubation and collaboration. On
the operations side of the business, we are keeping
a close eye on how technologies can be adapted to
deliver our business goals. In particular, we are
focusing on how transparently and in real time we
can provide information to our customers when
and how they need it. We are also continuing to

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keep a pulse on the continuing evolution of the
light bulb; what once was a very small selection,
has gotten much more comprehensive and at
times, confusing. We want to be able to help our
customers smoothly navigate that territory when
specifying our product.

What is your company's philosophy?

We live by our mission statement, "To serve
our customers, owners and employees in an
exemplary manner through a culture, which
encourages all to flourish."

What do you look for in a good
partnership? How do you ensure strong
partnerships?

It goes back to our mission statement: we look
create a culture which encourages all to flourish.
Many times the strongest partnerships have
evolved to where it's hard to tell where our services
stop and theirs begin; it just works as one welloiled machine. Many of our customers log into
their account on curreyandcompany.com, place
their order and know it will be there as specified
without having to think twice about it.

What's one thing people probably don't
know about your company?

When you specify Currey & Company, you are
getting a product and a partner that is one of a
kind. Predominately, our products have been
specified for residential projects, but we are also
a very viable partner for hospitality projects. Our
manufacturing process allows us to quickly adapt
and scale a majority of our product offering to fit
small and large projects for hospitality settings.

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