Sea Gull Lighting Appoints Jim Finkel to Director of Business Development – Builder Sales

Riverside, New Jersey (December 20, 2006) -- Sea Gull Lighting Products, LLC (www.SeaGullLighting.com) announced today that Jim Finkel has been named Director of Business Development – Builder Sales. Finkel will be responsible for advancing the company’s builder sales initiatives with an emphasis on total supply chain integration with its channel partners.  Along with the company’s existing builder sales team,  his appointment to this post further layers Sea Gull Lighting’s sales initiatives and fortifies its commitment to the new construction market. 

“Jim has an A to Z knowledge and appreciation for the complexities involved in servicing lighting customers,” says Spencer Bolgard, Vice President, Sales.  “Jim sets the gold standard when it comes to delivering service and customer satisfaction to residential builders.”

Finkel joins the industry’s leading lighting supplier to the residential construction market and begins a new chapter in his 31-year lighting career.  Most recently he served in a senior management capacity at Lamps Plus Centennial where he was National Sales Manager.  Prior to Lamps Plus, Finkel founded Centennial Supply, Los Angles, California where he pioneered the supply chain process with large and small home builders in the west.  With a strong understanding of the industry, products, and demand forecasting, Finkel co-developed a superior software system that reduces transactional costs in the supply of lighting products to residential builders.

Finkel currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife Karen and daughter Haylee who is attending the University of Nevada, Reno.  

Headquartered in Riverside, New Jersey, Sea Gull Lighting Products, LLC, a Generation Brands company, is a leading manufacturer and marketer of decorative and functional lighting for residential, commercial and architectural applications. The 87-year-old company provides more than 3,500 product designs spanning 15 categories to a multi-national network of electrical distributors, lighting showrooms, furniture and gift specialty stores as well as various niche markets. These products are marketed worldwide under the Sea Gull Lighting®, Ambiance® Lighting Systems, PGA TOUR® Home Collection brand names. The company also offers the industry’s most expansive line of ENERGY STAR products with more than 500 ENERGY STAR lighting fixtures and ceiling fans included in its product line.