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Milliken announces new design leadership for global floor covering division

Submitted by: Caitlin Greeley on Jun 09, 2011 at 9:11 pm Tagged with: Cresta Bledsoe, Milliken, Milliken Carpet, Milliken floor covering Source: Milliken

Award-winning designer Cresta Bledsoe to direct product design

SPARTANBURG, SC – Cresta Bledsoe, a leading interior and product design professional, has been named as Milliken’s new global creative director for its floor covering division. An award-winning designer, Bledsoe will lead the Milliken design team as they introduce innovative products featuring a variety of mediums, aesthetics and functionality.

“Cresta’s move to this new position continues our mission to serve as a true design partner to the architectural and design community,” said Barbara Haaksma, vice president of marketing and design for Milliken’s floor covering division. “Her unique insight into the product design and specification processes, combined with Milliken’s capabilities, will allow Cresta and our team to lead the marketplace with inspiring and meaningful designs.”

The roots of Bledsoe’s relationship with Milliken began in 1997. In her seven years at Thompson, Ventulett, Stainbeck, & Associates in Atlanta, Bledsoe consulted and designed products for Constantine by whom she was later recruited to serve as director of design strategies for the manufacturer’s commercial division.

In 2007, Bledsoe left her position at Constantine to start Manner, an interior and design strategies company. She maintained a consultancy role with Constantine, and expanded her involvement with Milliken after the acquisition of Constantine by Milliken in 2009.

As newly named global creative director, Bledsoe explains her vision to produce relevant designs that express a fresh point of view.

“Our goal is to elevate flooring into a diverse and dynamic new material that previously no flooring manufacturer has attempted,” said Bledsoe.

About Milliken’s global floor covering division
Milliken has a rich history of delivering innovative carpet and hard surface flooring from its award-winning global design studios, research center and manufacturing facilities. Driven by a desire to bring meaningful experiences to interior environments, Milliken delivers unexpected and purposeful flooring solutions that add value to people’s lives, improve health and safety, and make this world sustainable. Headquartered in Spartanburg, S.C., Milliken is online at www.millikencarpet.com, on Twitter at www.twitter.com/MillikenCarpet and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MillikenCarpet.

About Milliken
Milliken is an innovation company that has been exploring, discovering, and creating ways to enhance people’s lives since 1865. Our community of innovators has developed one of the larger collections of United States patents held by a private U.S. company. With expertise across a breadth of disciplines including specialty chemical, floor covering, and performance materials, we work around the world every day to add true value to people’s lives, improve health and safety, and make this world more sustainable. For more information, visit www.milliken.com.