Glen Raven Custom Fabrics names Greg Voorhis as design team manager

Responsibilities include Sunbrella design team management, fabric exclusives

Casual Living Staff -- Casual Living, 2/25/2011 10:36:59 AM

GLEN RAVEN, N.C. — Glen Raven Custom Fabrics announces the promotion of longtime employee Greg Voorhis to design team manager with management responsibilities for the team of fabric designers dedicated to the Sunbrella brand.

Greg VoorhisVoorhis' responsibilities will include the planning, development and evaluation of new fabric lines. He will also work with the Glen Raven Custom Fabrics market managers and sales teams to oversee exclusive fabric design work for the company's broad customer base. Voorhis will continue to report to Gina Wicker, design and creative director for Glen Raven Custom Fabrics.

Voorhis earned a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts from Lander University in Greenwood, S.C., and began his career with Dickson SA, which merged with Glen Raven in 1998. His overall tenure with the companies includes 14 years of fabric design and development.

Celebrating 50 years of innovation in 2011, the Sunbrella brand revolutionized the way the world thinks of beautiful performance fabrics with its entrance to the marketplace in 1961. Today, durable, easy-care Sunbrella fabrics are available in thousands of sophisticated styles, patterns and colors for wherever people live, work and play.

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