Malkiewicz Heads Americas Mart Rug Leasing

September 20, 2011  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Executive Changes on September 21, 2011

Kevin Malkiewicz has been named vice president of AmericasMart Atlanta area rug leasing and sales with full responsibility for all area rug category management.

Malkiewicz most recently served as executive director of area rug leasing, tradeshows and buyer relations, and continues a 12-year tenure dating to his 1999 appointment as area rug buyer relations manager. He will direct the leasing of the 350,000-square-foot AmericasMart area rug center, and will help to lead sales of the National Oriental Rug Show, the area rug temporaries staged in partnership with the Oriental Rug Importers Association during the January Atlanta International Area Rug Market. The area rug center and temporaries together comprise the nation's single-largest collection of area rug product.

"Kevin brings to his new role experience and expertise perfectly matched to the needs of exhibitor and buyer customers and to the industry at large," said Jeffrey L. Portman, president and chief operating officer of AmericasMart Atlanta and its AMC Inc. parent entity. "He is a superb steward of our customers' business and of the resources we continue to invest in an industry of vital importance to our marketplace and the greater home furnishings community."