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Art Van Names Bruni "Buyer of the Year"
October 18,
2012 by in UnCategorized 
By Home Furnishings Business in Furniture Retailing on October 19, 2012
Art Van Furniture has named veteran mattress buyer George Mattress George Bruni the furniture retailer's 2012 Art Van Furniture Buyer of the Year.
Bruni is responsible for purchasing 10 brands of mattresses for 70 mattress stores including
Art Van PureSleep and
Mattress World.
Mattresses had the largest percentage of sales growth year to year and drove the largest amount of traffic into our stores, said Kim Yost, Art Van Furniture CEO. It was a record breaking year for mattress sales at Art Van and Bruni led our team for our sales growth.
According to Senior Vice President of Merchandising Bob Price, Bruni was selected as the 2012 Buyer of the Year based on his sales results, profit contribution and exceptional degree of teamwork exhibited during 2012.
Our mattress business is critical to our success, said David Van Elslander, vice president of Art Van Pure Sleep. Brunis expertise in merchanding our Art Van Pure Sleep business and our Matress World business is unparalleled.
Bruni leads a four-member team and has been with Warren, Mich.-based Art Van Furniture for 23 years as the senior buyer for mattresses.
Art Van operates 34 stores throughout Michigan, a full service e-commerce Web site, plus six freestanding Art Van PureSleep bedding stores in Canton, Troy, Rochester Hills, Brighton, Ann Arbor and New Hudson, Mich.