Employee Spotlight #1

Name: Josh
Title: Director of Project Management
What he likes best about his job: the people he works with. Every day is different and has something new.
Born: Salt Lake City
Education: California State University, Chico- bachelor's in marketing and management
Places lived: Utah, California, and Oregon
Favorite candle: Minus Wicks, fresh peach scent
Favorite place to shop: Pac Sun
Last good movie: Pursuit of Happiness
Likes to watch or read: KSL updates / current events
Favorite pig out food: Ben & Jerry's half baked ice cream
Favorite music or artist: country
Person he admires: parents because they taught him everything he knows
Three words that describe him: coolest guy ever
Spare time: snowboard, wakeboard, ride dirt bikes at the dunes
If I've learned something in life, it is: Proper planning prevents poor performance (the 5 P's of business)

Updates

Surprisingly, our art department had different opinions about the movie they saw last Friday.

Shane, an artist, said, "It was awesome!"

Anita, another artist, said, "It sucked! It was a guy’s movie!” She said she would have preferred to see "Wild Hogs" instead.

Willard, an artist, said, "I thought "300" was good."

"300" is a war movie about the Spartans and some battle.

It has been really quiet with our sales staff gone to the Housewares Show in Chicago.

Phyllis, our administrative assistant, said, "I miss the bustle and banter, but it’ll be exciting when they come back tomorrow and we hear how well the show went."

Paul, our CEO, and Dan, in our planning department, are at the Kohl's vendor summit meeting today and tomorrow, getting more training on our partnership with Kohl's. It’s really amazing how much it takes to ship to large companies like them! There are so many details that all have to be completed and come together just right and just in time in order for the relationship to work. And it’s the same with all the other key account customers we ship to. Kohl's is our largest customer.

New OEM Technology

We were very busy last week at For Every Body. A vendor told us about a new odor eliminating technology, and our art department worked frantically to create labels and posters for it. The Housewares Show in Chicago is this week, and we didn't want to miss an opportunity to show our new products with this new technology.
It is an exciting tecnology. It is called OEM (Odor Eliminating Molecules). We added OEM to a pet shampoo, our Minus Wicks line and a few others. OEM completely eliminates odors. It is so powerful that it can even eliminate skunk odor! It was tested on dogs that were sprayed with skunk odor. They washed the dogs twice with shampoo that had OEM in it, and they didn't smell like skunk after two washes! It is pretty powerful!
Our administrative assistant, Phyllis, said she was amazed how it killed the odor so quickly. She said, "Frankly, I can’t wait until we start producing it, because I want some. I’m especially excited that we sell a fragrance-free version for those of us who are sensitive to fragrance."
Our art department did an excellent job designing the labels and posters for the show. They did such a great job that they went to celebrate at the movies on Friday afternoon! They saw the movie called, "300."