Buck named vice president of Eastman's North America Sales.KINGSPORT, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 15, 1996--Francis K. Buck has been named vice president, North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Sales, Eastman Chemical Company Eastman Chemical Company is a United States based chemical company, engaged in the manufacture and sale of chemicals, plastics and fibers. Eastman has 16 manufacturing sites in 10 countries, supplying its products throughout the world. . The new assignment will become effective April 1. Buck joined Eastman as a marketing trainee, Dyes & Textile Chemicals. He later served as a marketing representative and subsequently became a market supervisor. He served as a district marketing manager (Mexico) and area marketing manager, Asia/Australia (Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Korea, Singapore and Australia ), Field Marketing, Kingsport. He later held the position of director, Sales, Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. , Middle East and Africa (Zug), Western Europe (Zug), Canada and Mexico. At the time of his new appointment, he was a staff assistant in the Worldwide Sales Division. Buck, a native of Milan, Tenn., received a BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. . He and his wife, the former Marcia Hanna, reside in Kingsport and are the parents of a son and a daughter. He serves on the Council of Ministries at Cassidy Methodist Church and is 1996 chairman of the Leadership Division for Friends of Scouting. CONTACT: Eastman Chemical, Kingsport Patricia C. Sutton, 423/229-6573 |
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