Kalamazoo, MI – Landscape Forms has announced that new appointments have been made in positions created for the development of sales in the key markets of Education, Transportation, Municipalities and Healthcare. Vince Kleyla joins Landscape Forms as New Business Development, Team Leader.

Vince Kleyla

Vince Kleyla will lead sales growth in the key markets. He will work with the Sales Team conducting training programs for Strategic Selling, New Business Development and Presentation Skills. He will also lead the growing staff of New Business Development Representatives.

Kleyla comes to Landscape Forms from the contract furniture industry with an illustrious career as a Leader in Sales Skills Training with Herman Miller, Westinghouse Furniture Systems and Allsteel. Most recently he served as Vice President of Education and Manpower Development for Drummond American, a division of Lawson Products.

Michele Shoemake

Michele Shoemake joins Landscape Forms as New Business Development Representative in Colorado, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. Ms. Shoemake has had experience in the furniture industry in Colorado at Rocky Mountain Desk and, most recently, with Corporate Environments. Both companies are office furniture dealerships in the Denver area.

Michele Batchik

Michele Batchik begins her new role as Landscape Forms’ Direct Sales Representative for the State of Tennessee on March 1, 2008. Ms. Batchik has served as Landscape Forms International Sales Service representative for several years, and is also the company’s current GSA Contract Administrator.

Ms. Batchik will be relocating to Nashville in late February

 Landscape Forms is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of commercial outdoor furniture and accessories, and has won numerous design awards during its 40-year history. The company’s product list includes exterior seating systems, benches, tables and chairs, umbrellas, wheelchair-accessible picnic tables, planters, litter receptacles and ash urns. Clients include such well-recognized companies as Boeing, Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard, Harvard University, Disney, Chrysler, Mayo Clinic, Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, Sprint, American Airlines, LaGuardia Airport, Microsoft, Nike, Kellogg’s Cereal City USA and many others. Visit Landscape Forms on the web at www.landscapeforms.com.

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