Spectra Home Expands Management Team
Furniture World News Desk on
8/13/2017
Industry veteran Christine Pressley has been named to the new position of Operations Manager for both Spectra Home and Palatial Furniture.
Spectra Home recently announced that as part of the ongoing operations merger of two stationary upholstered furniture divisions of Shayne International Holdings, Ltd—Spectra Home and Palatial Furniture—industry veteran Christine Pressley has been named to the new position of Operations Manager for both Spectra Home and Palatial Furniture.
Pressley will be responsible for management of customer service, logistics and warehouse facilities. The companies will continue to maintain separate showrooms and marketing efforts.
According to Bill Cubberley, president of Spectra Home, Pressley’s extensive background in retailing and manufacturing, sales management, as well as customer service and operations make her the ideal candidate to fill the new operations role.
“Christine’s intimate understanding of retailers’ needs, combined with her considerable talents in the areas of customer care and satisfaction, as well as her experience in management and logistics will enable us to further build on the strengths of these two companies,” Cubberley says. “We are very pleased to have an executive of her caliber assume this position and look forward to the improvements she will make in each of these areas.”
Pressley began her career in the home furnishings business on the sales floor of Boyles Furniture in 1989, eventually working her way up into management of multiple store locations. She took to the road as a manufacturer’s representative for both Dan River and Southeastern Fabrics, and later, Clayton Marcus, where she also handled inside sales for Top 100 accounts like Raymour & Flanigan and Sofa Express. She has served as operations manager of Palatial Furniture for the past five years.
“I’m very excited about the opportunity to develop and merge the operational synergies of Spectra Home and Palatial Furniture, making the whole greater than either company already is individually,” Pressley relates. “We have a wonderful team of talented people coming together to grow these companies and this move is the obvious next professional step for me personally. All roads have been leading me to this moment.”
More about Spectra Home: Spectra Home designs and manufactures luxuriously comfortable, fashion-forward and exquisitely tailored upholstered furniture using time-honored construction techniques, from eight-way hand-tied coils to hand-cut and sewn fabrics and leathers. The company is based in High Point, N.C. Palatial Furniture, located in Cornelius, N.C., supplies high-quality, top-grain leather sofas, chairs and more to medium and upper-range retailers and the interior design trade. Both warehouse product in High Point, N.C. and Southern CA. For more information, visit www.spectra-home.com.