Barry Tatelman, CEO of Jordan's Furniture, Joins Reebok International Ltd.'s Board of Directors.Business Editors CANTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 2002 The Board of Directors for Reebok Ree´bok` n. 1. (Zool.) The peele. International Ltd. has elected Barry Tatelman, chief executive officer of Jordan's Furniture  This article in sections 2 through 5 is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , as a board member. Tatelman's appointment, which became effective at the company's regularly scheduled board meeting on October 29, was unanimous. Tatelman, age 51, joins eight other Reebok Board members, including Norman Axelrod, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Linens `N Things; Paul Duncan, retired executive vice president, Reebok; Richard Lesser, senior corporate advisor, TJX Companies; Geoffrey Nunes, retired general counsel, Millipore Corporation; Deval Patrick, general counsel and executive vice president, Coca-Cola Company; Dorothy Puhy, chief financial officer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; and Thomas Ryan, president and CEO, CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. . Reebok International Ltd. now has seven of its ten directors from outside the Company, which complies with obligations passed recently by Congress and the NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange for public companies to maintain a majority of independent directors by the end of 2004. "Barry's 30 years of experience in retail sales, operations, management and marketing will be an extraordinary asset to the Reebok Board," said Paul Fireman, chairman and CEO, Reebok International Ltd. "Jordan's Furniture has established a solid reputation for its high quality products and creative marketing and these are two areas that are integral to the continued success of Reebok. We are very excited to have the benefit of Barry's extraordinary success." Tatelman has been in the furniture business with his brother Eliot since 1972. Jordan's currently has stores located in Avon, Natick and Waltham, Massachusetts, and a fourth store in Nashua, New Hampshire Nashua is a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA. As of the 2000 census, Nashua had a total population of 86,605[1], making it the second largest city in the state after Manchester. As of 2005, the population is estimated to be 87,986. . Plans are underway to open a fifth Jordan's location on the North Shore in 2004. Tatelman is the vice president of the Anti-Defamation League Anti-Defamation League B’nai B’rith organization which fights anti-Semitism. [Am. Hist.: Wigoder, 33] See : Anti-Semitism , is heavily involved with Team Harmony and is on the board of the Genesis Fund. He is also on the board of the MA Adoption Resource Exchange and is an honorary board member of the Massachusetts 911 Fund. Reebok International Ltd., headquartered in Canton, MA., is a leading worldwide designer, marketer and distributor of sports, fitness and casual footwear, apparel and equipment under the Reebok, Rockport and Greg Norman Brands and footwear under the Polo Ralph Lauren Polo Ralph Lauren (NYSE: RL) is American fashion designer Ralph Lauren's luxury lifestyle company. Polo Ralph Lauren specializes in high-end casual/semi-formal wear for men and women, as well as accessories, fragrance, and housewares. Brand. Sales for 2001 totaled approximately $3.0 billion. |
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