High Point, NC (USA) - Chadd Coltrain and Karen Shakel have joined Global Textile Alliance, Inc. sales and marketing team. Both will be based out of the new corporate headquarters in Colfax, N.C. Coltrain will have sales and marketing responsibilities for mattress ticking accounts in the Mid-West and East Coast and Shakel will responsible for mattress ticking accounts for the West Coast and Canada.

Global Textile Alliance, Inc, is an international and domestic "mill-direct" sourcing, marketing and distribution company. The new company services the upholstery, mattress ticking, contract and soft consumer goods market.