Management Changes:
Trion Industries Inc. (Wilkes-Barre, Pa., manufacturer of store and p-o-p fixtures) has hired James Castellino as director of sales and marketing.
Davaco Inc. (Dallas provider of retail services and solutions) has named Matthew Meholic director, national accounts and promoted Doyle Gage, Thomas Currier and Tom Motschull to senior project managers.
NS Studios, The Miller Group (Toronto visual marketing firm) announced that Dale Ducic has joined its sales and marketing team.
LS3P Associates Ltd. (Charlotte, N.C., and Charleston, S.C., architecture firm) has named Rich Gowe and Willie Murphy studio leaders in Charleston and Craig Norsted studio leader in Charlotte. The firm also announced the following new principals: in Charleston, Richard Bing, Ken Harkins, Marc Marchant, John Reuter, David Rice and Allen Taylor; and in Charlotte, Dan Hartley, John Kincheloe, David Loy, Shawn Mottern, Craig Norsted and Brian Tressler.
Relocations:
Envisio Visual Marketing (St. Paul, Minn., visual marketing firm) to 289 E. Fifth St., Ste. 208, St. Paul, MN 55101. Phone: 877-526-6473, 651-486-8739; fax: 651-222-2720.
Business Briefs:
Fitzpatrick Intl. Group (New York retail design firm) has been hired to redesign and reposition E*Trade Financial's branch offices. The first of the new designs has opened in La Jolla, Calif., and a second will open soon in Chicago. Fitpatrick has also designed a new full-line department store in Guatemala for Siman Almacenes and is designing stores for the chain in Nicaragua and El Salvador. And Weathervane, a New Britain, Conn.-based retail chain targeting teen girls, has retained Fitzpatrick to design its new retail concept.
The Container Store (Dallas home-organization retailer) is one of five companies featured in the “Tom Peters: Re-Imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age” TV special that's scheduled to appear on Public Broadcasting Service stations this month.
New Metal Crafts (Chicago lighting design, renovation and manufacturing company) opened a 300-square-foot gallery in the Dallas Market Center's Hemisphere Accent Gallery.
Color Kinetics Inc. (Boston manufacturer of intelligent solid-state lighting systems) has entered into an agreement to use its technology to power the Soft-LED drapery for entertainment applications produced by Main Light Industries Inc. (Wilmington, Del., fiberoptic lighting firm).
Associations:
P.A.V.E., The Planning and Visual Education Partnership (St. Louis non-profit organization promoting the study of retail design and visual merchandising) will have a display in the Windows of the Magnificent Mile event in Chicago. Students from the Laboratory Institute of Merchandising (New York) and the Illinois Institute of Art (Chicago) will design, decorate and install the window at 980 N. Michigan Ave. with the theme, “The History of Visual Design: Past, Present and Future.” The exhibition runs from May 14 to June 13.
The International Interior Design Association (Chicago organization promoting the interior design field) has named the winners of its “Ten to Watch” campaign: Viveca Bissonnette, Carrier Johnson, San Diego; Mark Bryant, Gensler, Los Angeles; Amy Hursh Lopez, WHR Architects, Houston; William Lyons, Perkins & Will, Minneapolis; Melissa Mizell, Gensler, San Francisco; Angela Peterson, Susman Tisdale Gayle, Austin, Texas; James Pollet, Richard Pollack & Associates, San Francisco; Jason Rosenblatt, Perkins & Will, Chicago; Kimbery Sacramone, HLW, New York; and Peter Wang, Gensler, New York.
Awards:
Architectural Systems Inc. (New York distributor and marketer of architectural materials) received the HD/IIDA Best Product Award in the flooring/hard surface category at the 2004 Hospitality Design Show for its Stone Marquetry Collection.
Trimco Inc. (Brooklyn, N.Y., visual marketing company) announced that president Richard Stolls has been honored by the High School of Fashion Industries (New York) for his support of the school's visual merchandising program. Stolls, who is also treasurer of P.A.V.E., The Planning and Visual Education Partnership, was instrumental in obtaining a $10,000 grant from the Joe Powers Memorial Fund to establish a mobile computer lab for the visual merchandising program.