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Victor Group Appoints Lisa Olson-Wong to Design Director
May 12, 2010Saint-Georges, Quebec, Canada, May 12, 2010 – Victor Group, a leading North America-based textile company, announced today that Lisa Olson-Wong has been appointed to the position of Design Director for the Contract Division. In this new position, Olson-Wong will be responsible for overseeing the textile design team for the contract division and shaping the product for panel and seating fabrics for the OEM and distributor markets. Olson-Wong brings more than 15 years of industry experience to the position, including the past six with Victor’s contract design team, most recently as a senior designer and contract coordinator. She spent three years as a professor of textiles at Philadelphia University prior to joining Victor, and has a Masters Degree from the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design. I am confident that Lisa has the expertise and industry knowledge, as well as the familiarity with Victor and our products, to lead our contract design team into the future,” said Alain Duval, CEO and president of Victor Group. “I am excited about the future of this team under Lisa’s leadership as Victor continues to enhance our design capabilities for the seating market, expand our customer base, and strengthen our position as a design leader in the contract textile industry.” “Victor’s Contract Division is already known for having one of the most talented and experienced design teams in the industry and the company is a leader in the development of eco-friendly textiles,” said Olson-Wong. “With the recent expansion of eco intelligent warp platforms, novelty yarns and finishing options, I believe Victor’s contract seating can become the clear aesthetic choice as well as an established environmental choice. We are in a position, more than ever before, to address a broad range of unique design needs with our environmental seating products. I am looking forward to what I think will be an especially creative time for both the company and Victor Design.” About Victor Group Inc. Victor Group is a leading North American-based textile company specializing in sustainable and innovative fabrics designed for the contract, residential, outdoor, apparel and specialty markets. The company operates state-of-the-art mills in several Canadian and US locations, service-and-warehouse facilities in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Fall River, Massachusetts, and design studios in New York City and Fall River. Founded in 1947, family-owned Victor has a long history of serving the North American textile industry with environmental fabrics since 1980. ### MEDIA CONTACT: Jeremy Bakken, (jbakken@lambert-edwards.com) Lambert, Edwards & Associates 616-233-0500 |
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