Valkanoff Named President of CR-Home

July 23, 2007  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in on July 2007 Chromcraft Revington Inc., West Lafayette, Ind., has appointed Dennis Valkanoff president of its CR-Home residential furniture division.

Valkanoff, senior vice president of Chromcraft Revington, replaced David Corbin, who has resigned from the company.

In his expanded role, Valkanoff will have overall profit/loss responsibilities for the residential furniture business, and will be responsible for the integration of the company’s residential furniture sales and marketing functions as well as management of its product life cycle. He will continue to report directly to Ben Anderson-Ray, chairman and chief executive officer of Chromcraft Revington.

“This integration will provide greater coordination and alignment between sales activities, product management and marketing activities for our residential furniture business,” said Anderson-Ray. “It parallels the structure of our commercial furniture business, and constitutes another important step in repositioning the Company in the global furniture marketplace.”

In addition, Vice President of Product Management and Merchandising for CR-Home Brenda Dillon will assume overall merchandising and category responsibility for CR-Home occasional, upholstery and bedroom product. Boyd Barnhardt continues as director of marketing. Both report to Valkanoff.

Chromcraft Revington’s home furnishings brand, CR-Home includes the Chromcraft, Peters-Revington, Sumter, Silver Furniture and Cochrane Furniture brands.