Whether customers come in to replace a soap dispenser or to completely renovate a master bath, they’re treated as if they are the most important people to have ever walked…
Author: Linda Longo
Editors Note May 2017
There’s Always a First Time! That time-worn cliché is actually quite true. Not only does it sum up the sentiment I heard from some of the winners in our Legends,…
LUMINARY Sales Rep: Pamela Tresp- Progress Lighting
How did you enter the lighting industry? To make a long story short, I met my husband. He owned a busy lighting design firm and I wanted a change from…
LUMINARY Retailer: Tim Stumm- Lights Fantastic
How did you enter the lighting industry? This is actually my second career. After I graduated college (with a degree in Business Administration), I was enjoying a great career working…
LUMINARY Manufacturer: Matt John Elemental LED
How did you enter the lighting industry? By chance! A group I was working with helped fund Elemental LED in the early stage. As I investigated the company and became…
LEADER Sales Rep: Kelly Casagrande- Casagrande Associates, LLC
How did you enter the lighting industry? I had been working for a lumber and building materials distributor until they closed their facility, and I began looking for another position. …
LEADER Retailer: Ric Jolie- Benson’s Lighting & Fans
How did you enter the lighting industry? While in college in the early 1970s with the goal of attending law school, I came to that proverbial “fork in the road”…and,…
LEADER Retailer: Ric Jolie- Benson’s Lighting & Fans
How did you enter the lighting industry? While in college in the early 1970s with the goal of attending law school, I came to that proverbial “fork in the road”…and,…
LEADER Manufacturer:Todd Teiber- Craftmade
How did you enter the lighting industry? I was born into the lighting industry. My dad, Bill Teiber, was a manufacturers’ rep and importer in the residential lighting business. As…
LEGEND Sales Rep: BJ Ferber Bill Ferber & Associates
How did you enter the lighting industry? I learned a lot about the home furnishings business from my dad, Bill Ferber, Sr., who established his own rep firm and had…
