Hooker Furnishings appoints Henry Williamson as new Chairman of the Board of Directors

– USA, VA –  Hooker Furnishings Corp. (NASDAQ: HOFT) today announced the election of Lead Independent Director, Henry Williamson as Chairman of the Board of Directors, succeeding Paul Toms who is retiring as Chairman of the Board, effective immediately.

Henry Williamson retired COO of Truist Financial Corp. has been a director since 2004 and Independent Lead Director since June 2016.

With Toms’ departure, the Board goes from 9 to 8 members, including:

  • Jeremy Hoff, CEO;
  • Henry Williamson, Chairman;
  • Christopher Beeler Jr.;
  • Maria Duey;
  • Paulette Garafalo;
  • Tonya Jackson;
  • Larry Ryder
  • Ellen Taaffe.

About Hooker Furniture Corporation

Based in Martinsville, Va., Hooker Furniture Corporation is ranked among the nation’s largest publicly traded furniture sources and encompasses twelve discrete operating businesses. These brands include: Hooker Furniture, Hooker Upholstery, Bradington-Young, Sam Moore Furniture, Shenandoah Furniture, H Contract, Accentrics Home, Pulaski Furniture, Samuel Lawrence Furniture, Prime Resource International, Samuel Lawrence Hospitality and HMIdea. Hooker Furnishings Corporation’s corporate offices and upholstery manufacturing facilities located in Virginia and North Carolina, with showrooms in High Point, N.C. and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Hooker Furnishings operates distribution centers in the United States, China, and Vietnam.

For more information: https://www.hookerfurniture.com/

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