GMG Americas, the US-based office of GMG, announces they have opened an office in California to expand their presence on the West Coast. In charge of the facility is Eric Dalton, who was recently appointed Director of Sales, West Region. GMG Americas continues to see growth in the number of companies that have adopted its color management solutions (in particular, GMG OpenColor packaging installations) targeted to a wide range of graphics, printing and packaging companies. The extended product portfolio also requires GMG to offer greater attention to its customers. This has required GMG to better serve its increasing list of West Coast customers, who reside across the country from GMG Americas headquarters. Also, GMG desired a physical presence in the United States’ largest print market. In a 2015 survey, there were 63% more printing companies in California than in New York, the second most populous state for printing establishments.
FDC Graphic Films, Inc. announced Renée Thibodeaux joined the company as Vice President of Sales to lead and further develop the growth of FDC in North America. Thibodeaux will lead and direct the Sales and Customer Service teams and bring her wealth of experience in sales and marketing to continue to drive FDC’s brand vision for service, selection and reliability. Prior to joining the FDC team, Thibodeaux led sales for Mosaic Sales Solutions heading their field operations team who supported over 2,400 Samsung Experience consultants across the U.S.
Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc., a global leader in lighting and a member of the Panasonic Group, has partnered with distribution agency Lighting Control Solutions to represent the company’s complete line of innovative lighting products in Kansas and Missouri. Based in Shawnee, Kansas, Lighting Control Solutions is recognized throughout the Midwest as a premier lighting manufacturers’ representative with an emphasis on customer service. The company offers a wide variety of solutions such as LED products, exit and emergency, lighting controls, UPS inverters and power conditioning. Lighting Control Solutions will offer the full Universal line of LED solutions for commercial lighting applications, as well as replacement products for linear fluorescent, compact fluorescent, HID and eHID lighting systems. Universal has also hired Freddy Prestonas a Regional Sales Manager in its Southeast United States territory. In his new role, Preston will work directly with energy service companies, lighting management consultants, energy specialists, distributors and agents to specify Universal’s wide range of lighting solutions in projects across the region. Preston is a strong advocate for sales training and understands the importance of education, which the company supports through Universal University. Preston joins Universal with more than 20 years of experience in the industry, much of that working with architects, lighting designers and others to ensure appropriate lighting projects are specified.
