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partner profiles How does NEWH stay afloat? With the help of its corporate partners. Take a minute to get to know this month’s highlighted companies. ..... TOTO is a company committed to creating stylish, innovative, eco-conscious products that contribute to water conservation and sustainability without ever compromising performance. As the world’s largest plumbing products manufacturer, TOTO offers a full line of luxury performance fixtures, accessories, and fittings, including faucets, shower sets, high efficiency toilets, lavatories, Air Baths™, acrylic and cast iron soaker tubs, Washlet® seats, and high efficiency commercial flush valves, toilets, and urinals. Many of TOTO's high efficiency plumbing products contribute significantly to green projects and to earning LEED credits. As a result of TOTO's water-efficient product line and manufacturing processes, as well as its educational and advocacy efforts, in late 2006, the company earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s first-ever Water Efficiency Leader Award—the only plumbing fixture manufacturer to earn this honor. "There is no better forum for establishing and building relationships than NEWH,” says Mark Abbas, senior director of branding for TOTO. “We recognize the tremendous career growth opportunity that NEWH offers its members and fully support [its] educational and career advancement efforts. And we applaud and support the members in their efforts to design and build sustainable hospitality projects. We are proud and privileged to be part of NEWH.” ..... Serta International has been a leading mattress brand for the hospitality industry since the early 1990s. While mattresses are a mere commodity, everyone in the Serta family concentrates on the overall picture and are present not just at the sales end, but also at the planning, expediting, troubleshooting, delivery, and servicing stages. Serta believes that this is very important in today's business world of impersonal service, automated communications, and unreliable suppliers. “We understand that unless the most important human resource is utilized, we are no different,” says Carlos R. Canjura, the company’s national contract sales manager. In 2005, Serta became the first major mattress manufacturer to introduce FireBlocker construction in all of its sleep sets. Now, with the This Could Be Home guest purchase program, hotel guests can buy a Serta mattress to have the same great night's sleep they had at a hotel, at home. Serta mattresses have been supplied in such hotels chains as Marriott, Hilton, Mirage Resorts, and Embassy Suites. Serta also contributes to major social causes including the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. “Our belief is that many women are affected by breast cancer,” explains Canjura. “We either have wives, mothers, sisters, daughters, nieces, or friends who may have or will face this terrible disease.” ..... NLP Furniture Industries has manufactured furniture for the hospitality, contract, healthcare, foodservice, education, and residential industries for 22 years. The company offers both custom pieces as well as catalog soft-goods including sofas, sleepers, barstools, and wood chairs. With locations in both California and Mexico, NLP markets its products to a variety of customers such as wholesale distributors, buying groups, architecture and design firms, purchasing agents, office furniture dealers, and end-users worldwide. “For years the hospitality industry has been hungry for an improved way of making guests feel comfortable when they opened a Hide-a Bed sleeper,” explains Joseph Cabrera, president and CEO of NLP. “Here at NLP, we have been working for a few years to turn that dream into a reality so we have developed our own custom version sleep system sofa bed.” The new EZ Sleep Sleeper Mechanism™ is designed in three sections that when opened, the piece slides out to form a sleeper bed unit. When the bed is not in use, the unit slides back into place. The sofa bed contains no bars allowing for a comfortable night's sleep. The EZSleep Sleeper Mechanism™ sits on a combination of wood slats with a foam mattress that makes guests feel as though they slept on a regular mattress. “We became a partner in NEWH because we want to promote the design industry,” explains Cabrera. “What better way to do this then to partner up with the one organization that helps up-and-coming designers work their way up to becoming some of our industries top designers.” ..... From hotel spaces including lobbies and guestrooms to ballrooms, restaurants, and casinos, Durkan Hospitality, a Mohawk Industries brand, is as an industry leader in high performance hospitality carpeting. With state-of-the-art spectronic printers and Computer Yarn Placement (CYP) tufting technology, Durkan's line of patterned and custom carpet flooring products provide the high design, advanced engineering, and style needed for various installations. Durkan has introduced a new Durkan Quick Ship program available on their Select Print Bases. Durkan can provide up to 1,500 yards in five business days and up to 10,000 yards in 10 business days. “In today’s hectic business environment, our clients are often 'under the gun' to complete renovations and our Quick Ship Program is perfect when the need for fast turnaround presents itself," explains Lee Blair, senior vice president of Durkan Hospitality. "Over the last 17 years, I have had the pleasure of working with the NEWH organization nationally,” says Blair. He notes that the goals of NEWH, "to provide mentoring and support to up-and-coming design professionals in hospitality,” have truly helped change the lives of many professionals. “The networking opportunities that I have personally enjoyed over the years have created long lasting friendships that endure today,” says Blair. Thanking NEWH’s 2007 Corporate Partners benefactor: Ulster patron: THE HOSPITALITY DESIGN GROUP/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA; MILLIKEN CARPET/HOSPITALITY; supporting: BURTCO ENTERPRISES; DURKAN HOSPITALITY, (Mohawk Industries); INSITE LOGISTICS; MASLAND HOSPITALITY; NLP FURNITURE INDUSTRIES, INC.; S. HARRIS/FABRICUT CONTRACT; SERTA INTERNATIONAL; SIGNATURE HOSPITALITY CARPET; TOTO USA 42 september 2007 www.newh.org tel 800.593.NEWH http://www.newh.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of NEWH - November 2007

NEWH - November 2007
Table of Contents
Network Leaders
News
Sustainability Column
Sustainability: Green Luncheon
Have you Seen?
On the Scene
Cover Story: Passing the Torch
Scholarship: The Next Generation
Project: Harmonious Duet
Project: Second Act
Service: Recognizing Excellence
Save the Date
New Members
Partner Profiles

NEWH - November 2007