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News Release from: Silent Gliss
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 January 2007
Head of Silent Gliss UK to retire
Ray Wharton, Managing Director and Chairman of Silent Gliss , is retiring after almost 30 years with the company.
Ray Wharton, Managing Director and Chairman of Silent Gliss , is retiring at the end of the year after almost 30 years with the Company After completing his MBA in the USA in 1968, Ray moved back to the UK and into marketing with such giants as BOC, Rank and Burtons before joining the Window Treatment Industry via Rufflette in Europe
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 24 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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But it was with Silent Gliss that he fulfilled his many ambitions culminating this year with the opening of a new state-of the-art factory in Broadstairs.
A project which was very much his own and which is a fitting legacy to his work with the company.
As well as heading up Silent Gliss in the UK he has at various stages also been in charge of Silent Gliss operations in Japan, Australia and France.
He was instrumental in setting up the UK company's domestic blind subsidiary-Novatec-whose second brand name -Eclectics-has carved itself niche notoriety for contemporary blinds.
Silent Gliss is now the biggest subsidiary of the Swiss -based Silent Gliss Group and recently moved into purpose -built 60000 ft 2 (6000 m2) Head Office and Factory premises in Broadstairs,Kent-almost doubling capacity.
Hugh Gage, a director at Silent Gliss and well known in the industry, will take over as MD of Silent Gliss and Bernie Keens will continue to run Novatec .
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