Ashley's Gilstrap Wins Tupelo Market Award

August 22, 2010  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Markets on August 23, 2010

Ashley Furniture's Danny Gilstrap has received the fall Tupelo Furniture Market's manufacturer's rep award, the Northeast Mississippi Journal reported Sunday.

Gilstrap, a casegoods senior marketing specialist and a 41-year industry veteran has worked with Ashley for 20 years.

s and has been with Ashley for 20 years. His long career and his continued support of TFM made him stand out for this award, said Wilson Jeter, a recipient of the award and the chairman of the selection committee.

"Danny was an outstanding salesman in his territory with his dealerbase and his peers," selection committee Wilson Jeter said in the report.

Gilstrap was Ashley's casegoods division 2006 salesman of the year.

Gilstrap started his industry career with Simmons Bedding, moving to Serta Bedding and then Riverside Furniture Corp. before joining Ashley.

He served as president of the Mississippi Home Furnishings Association in 1989, and was the association's salesman of the year in 1995.