DeMoura Leaves Interface Fabrics Group
July 28, 2003
GUILFORD, Maine — Brian DeMoura left Interface Fabrics Group, a division of Interface, Inc., as CEO the week of July 21. A replacement for DeMoura, who was with the company for nine years, has not yet been named. Interface said it would name a successor shortly.
Interface Fabrics Group includes Chatham Inc., Guilford of Maine, Intek and Interface Fabrics, formerly Cambourne, in the U.K.
Interface made several other changes in the past year including naming Derrill Rice president of new business development and new businesses.
Rice is responsible for Interface Studio Group, a recently formed hospitality fabric division who will be showing at the DecoContract exhibition in Brussels. The Group's first range, Studio Line Collection, is made in America, largely from recycled fabrics.
Jim Jenkins is business manager for Interface Studio Group. He joined Rice in this new business about one year ago. Both held similar posts and worked closely together for several years at Chatham Fabrics, another Interface division.
Interface Studio Group has found a demand for its high end hospitality fabrics in the residential market, Rice said. Rice's group works closely with Interface Fabrics Ltd., in England. "We are excited about the response we have been getting from the customer to this new line," he told F&FI.
Jay Dash International is representing the Interface Studio Group collection in the U.S.A.
"The Studio Collection reflects the high quality, design and color direction that separate us from 'third-world bottom-feeders' that can only copy us but not meet the high standards, which American textiles set in the performance, not just the price,'' said Dash. ''There is a reason why the Chinese are buying American upholstery fabrics for their hotels and using American designers and architects to build them."
Interface Fabrics Group includes Chatham Inc., Guilford of Maine, Intek and Interface Fabrics, formerly Cambourne, in the U.K.
Interface made several other changes in the past year including naming Derrill Rice president of new business development and new businesses.
Rice is responsible for Interface Studio Group, a recently formed hospitality fabric division who will be showing at the DecoContract exhibition in Brussels. The Group's first range, Studio Line Collection, is made in America, largely from recycled fabrics.
Jim Jenkins is business manager for Interface Studio Group. He joined Rice in this new business about one year ago. Both held similar posts and worked closely together for several years at Chatham Fabrics, another Interface division.
Interface Studio Group has found a demand for its high end hospitality fabrics in the residential market, Rice said. Rice's group works closely with Interface Fabrics Ltd., in England. "We are excited about the response we have been getting from the customer to this new line," he told F&FI.
Jay Dash International is representing the Interface Studio Group collection in the U.S.A.
"The Studio Collection reflects the high quality, design and color direction that separate us from 'third-world bottom-feeders' that can only copy us but not meet the high standards, which American textiles set in the performance, not just the price,'' said Dash. ''There is a reason why the Chinese are buying American upholstery fabrics for their hotels and using American designers and architects to build them."