United States
Responsible for all facets of the business. Kindel includes a variety of luxury furniture collections, Karges and Truex American Style. Kindel was founded in 1901 in Grand Rapids and continues to be a family owned american-made brand. Our scholarship, craftsmanship and artisan approach to bench-built, hand-carved, hand-sanded, hand-finished and hand-polished furniture is applied today as it was in 1901. We are the last of the high end residential furniture manufacturers still producing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This same approach is used for all Kindel products and associated brands.
Support clients with supply chain expertise through Supply Chain Solutions, Able to quickly help clients create improved free cash flow in deployment of supply chain and operational improvements.
Supply Chain Solutions is a global 3PL and Supply Chain Management Consulting firm. We combine know how, process and information technology to help our clients achieve significant savings in any activity related to logistics. We typically find 15-25 % savings and generate improved free cash flow within 6 months. We are able to perform diligence, assessment, solution development, implementation and turn key support for our clients. We support companies from 2 B in sales to under 5 M. We engineer solutions to meet client needs and provide high return to effort opportunities that are very attractive for companies desiring quick improvements in liquidity. We are particularly attractive to private equity fund managers and private equity owned companies.
Led reduction in EBITDA loss by 11 M USD over 2 year period. Stabilized declining sales in big box category and brought updated product designs to traditional retail product portfolio. Drove improvement in home theater seating sales and profitability. Berkline was owned by Sun Capital.