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Sprinkles, formerly sales and marketing manager of John Thomas Furniture, has been named national sales manager for the Whitewood Inds. division. Sprinkles will focus on expanding John Thomas Furniture's nationwide retail distribution network. Sprinkles joined Whitewood in a sales and marketing role in 2006.
Brendle, who joined Whitewoodww in 2010 as marketing coordinator, has been promoted to marketing administrator for John Thomas Furniture and Whitewood. In her new position, she will serve as project manager for all of John Thomas' marketing initiatives, including catalogs, videos and the company's recently enhanced Web site.
"In recent years, as our Select program has expanded, my energies have been increasingly focused on sales," Sprinkles said. "At the same time, we've been offering more and more marketing support to retailers. It was time to split up these two functions so they each receive our full attention."
The new management structure will enable Sprinkles to better support retailers on the sales side with product development, training and other services, he said.
In her new role, Brendle will be able to focus more time on developing creative merchandising and point-of-purchase materials "to help stores better promote our products and capture more consumer attention," Sprinkles said.
John Thomas introduced the Select casual dining program in 2005. Select offers 36 paint or stain options on a variety of solid-wood products available for delivery in four to six weeks.
"Select has become the core part of our business in the past few years, and we see great potential to grow it even more going forward," Sprinkles said. "Our goal is to continue enhancing the program through fresh products, finishes, and fabrics with our independent retailers and continue developing new opportunities with Top 100 stores and major buying groups."
