CONOVER, N.C. – Luxury furniture manufacturer Vanguard Furniture has reorganized its case goods team, adding two industry veterans to the mix and promoting a third.
The company recently hired 30-year industry veteran Carl Bundy as vice president of case goods product development and merchandising, a new position. Before joining the company, he was vice president of product development at Caracole and also worked in similar capacities at Fine Furniture Design, Drexel Heritage and Lexington Home Brands.
In his new role, he reports to company president Andy Bray and will be responsible for case goods development and product engineering.
Randy Sigmon joined the company this past July as quality control manager of case goods and was recently promoted to director of case goods operations, also a new position. Also reporting to Bray, he will be responsible for day-to-day case goods operations at Vanguard.
Before joining Vanguard, he was manufacturing manager at SpartaCraft for four and a half years and previously worked for Bernhardt and Hickory Chair.
Megan Barrett, who joined the company in July 2017 as product development manager, has been promoted to director of design, also a new position. She reports to Bray and will coordinate the creation of designs internally and externally with outside designers such as Thom Filicia and Michael Weiss.
Before joining Vanguard, Barrett was director of design at Sherrill Furniture and also was a lead designer at Heritage Home Group. She also has received the WithIt 2017 “WOW Future Leader Award.”
Bray noted that the changes are timely given the increasingly global nature of the industry.
“Vanguard is in the design and fashion as much as it is in the furniture business,” Bray said. “This is further complicated by the increased importance of global sourcing and supply chain management, the integration of multiple designers, and the complexities assembling and finishing parts from different locations. New talent requires both hard technical skills and soft interpersonal relationships.”
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