Bruce Boylen Appointed to Chairman of the Board and Timothy E. Hall Appointed to Treasurer and Assistant Secretary of Flexsteel Industries, Inc.
21 December 2000
Bruce Boylen Appointed to Chairman of the Board and Timothy E. Hall Appointed to Treasurer and Assistant Secretary of Flexsteel Industries, Inc.
DUBUQUE, Iowa--Dec. 21, 2000--At the December Board of Directors meeting of Flexsteel Industries, Inc., Bruce Boylen, a member of the Board since 1994, was named Chairman of that Board. He will replace John R. Easter, who will retire in March, 2001.Boylen was named to the Flexsteel Board in 1994. He was then recently retired from Fleetwood, a leading manufacturer in the recreational vehicle industry that Flexsteel is a leading supplier of specialized seating to.
John Easter was named Chairman of the Board in 1998. Prior to joining the Board in 1994, Easter had a long career at Sears in home furnishings merchandising as a vice president.
"Flexsteel has been very fortunate in the leadership provided by these two men," said K. Bruce Lauritsen, Flexsteel's president and CEO. "John Easter's knowledge of the home furnishings market has been intensely useful, while Bruce Boylen's background is extremely helpful to us in both the recreational vehicle and commercial seating markets."
Timothy E. Hall joined Flexsteel as Corporate Controller in 1995. Prior to that he had held various accounting positions at Deloitte & Touche. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Business Administration from Wartburg College. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
Lauritsen explained that Flexsteel's national reputation as a seating specialist is based on over a century of manufacturing fine upholstered furniture, plus decades of experience in contract and recreational vehicle seating. Recently, it was selected by Forbes' magazine as one of the "200 Best Small Companies" in America, based on the company's five-year record of sales and earnings.
Headquartered in Dubuque, Iowa, the company has nine factories across the United States, and had sales last year of $286 million.