Kahrs Americas employed Renee Tester as director of selling. She will probably be liable for main all advertising and marketing initiatives and driving the continued progress of Kahrs Americas’ enterprise.
Renee Tester brings greater than 20 years of expertise within the residence enchancment trade, with the final 16 years particularly within the flooring sector. In 2007, she joined Tarkett/Harris Wooden. After Harris Wooden was acquired by QEP in 2010, her tasks expanded to incorporate advertising and marketing, product, and gross sales, together with her most up-to-date position as vice chairman of selling, eCommerce, and digital. Tester has a observe report of quite a few profitable advertising and marketing and product launches, using numerous gross sales channels equivalent to direct-to-retail, distribution, and residential heart gross sales. Throughout her time at QEP, she performed a major position in growing and rising QEP’s on-line and in-store presence by means of strategic advertising and marketing campaigns, together with a deal with social media progress and revolutionary promoting instruments.
Tester is actively concerned with the Nationwide Wooden Flooring Affiliation (NWFA) and at the moment serves because the chair of the affiliation’s Rising Leaders Council. She has been acknowledged in Hardwood Flooring Journal’s “40 Below 40” awards and was featured within the “Ladies within the Trade” version of the journal.
Sean Brennan, president of Kahrs – Americas Division, stated: “We’re very excited to have Renee on board. Her depth of expertise, information, and administration capabilities will complement our crew and proceed to assist develop and strengthen our place within the Americas.”