Hooker Furniture announced that it has tapped Karyn Walker Johnson for the new position of Visual Communications Coordinator. In this role, she will work closely with merchandising and marketing staff to set a consistent and compelling visual communications direction for Hooker and its Envision, Opus Designs, Bradington-Young and Sam Moore divisions. She will oversee product photography, design and production for catalogs and other marketing materials.
“Karyn’s talent and experience will enable us to visually communicate our value equation to the consumer,” said Bruce Cohenour, executive vice president-marketing at Hooker. “The retailer will soon be able to see a compelling difference in the way we communicate our product story through photography, catalogs, marketing materials and websites,.”
Johnson comes to Hooker with over ten years of experience at Stanley Furniture, where she oversaw photography, catalog design and production. A graduate of Radford University where she earned a degree in visual communications, Johnson and her husband, Joel, live in Martinsville.
About Hooker Furniture: Ranked among the nation's top 10 largest publicly traded furniture sources based on 2007 shipments to U.S. retailers, Hooker Furniture Corporation is an 84-year old residential wood, metal and upholstered furniture resource. Major wood furniture product categories include home entertainment, home office, accent, dining, bedroom and bath furniture under the Hooker Furniture brand and youth bedroom furniture sold under the Opus Designs brand. Hooker’s residential upholstered seating companies include Cherryville, N.C.-based Bradington-Young LLC, a specialist in upscale motion and stationary leather furniture, and Bedford, Va.-based Sam Moore Furniture LLC, a specialist in upscale occasional chairs with an emphasis on cover-to-frame customization. For more information visit www.hookerfurniture.com, www.bradington-young.com, www.sammoore.com and www.opusdesigns.com.