Oriental Weavers names Ward, Higgins to new sales positions
-- Home Accents Today, 2/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
Oriental Weavers USA, Inc. recently named Maria Ward to the newly created position of vice president of national accounts and Scott Higgins the new business manager for the company's Home Depot accounts.
Formerly with Vantage/Leggett & Platt, Ward joins the Oriental Weavers team with more than 30 years experience in the industry. At V/L&P she was the vice president of sales and prior to that served in various roles at Milliken, including regional manager, market manager for rugs, and national accounts manager. In her new position with Oriental Weavers, Ward will work with the company's senior vice presidents of sales to develop new channels of business and grow existing account bases.
Scott Higgins comes to Oriental Weavers from Mohawk Industries where he served in various capacities including Lowe's business manager, territory sales manager and, most recently, manufacturing process control facilitator. In his new role at Oriental Weavers, Higgins will serve as the corporate liaison with Home Depot and continue to develop opportunities for partnership in the area rug category.
Ward and Higgins report to Sam Belak, senior vice president of sales.
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