Chris Pelcher Appointed Executive Vice President - General Manager Levin Furniture and Wolf Furniture

Furniture World News Desk on 2/23/2018

Art Van Furniture recently announced the appointment of Mr. Chris Pelcher as Executive Vice President and General Manager of Levin and Wolf Furniture, brands purchased late last year by the Midwest number one furniture and mattress retailer.

In this role, Pelcher will be responsible for leading merchandising, marketing, and store operations for both Levin and Wolf Furniture representing 53 stores in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia and Maryland. In addition, Pelcher will join the Art Van senior leadership team to ensure that the company harnesses the full power of the three long-standing and successful furniture brands.

"The unique resume of merchandising, marketing, sales and store operations Chris brings will be a major asset as we continue to accelerate our company growth," said Kim Yost, president and CEO of Art Van Furniture.

Pelcher joined Levin Furniture in 2006 and recently served as Senior Vice President responsible for the complete customer experience for Levin Furniture.

"I couldn't be more excited about the future for the Art Van, Levin, and Wolf brands," said Pelcher. "We have a unique opportunity to leverage the 'Power of Three' to accelerate the growth of our combined business, and I look forward to the journey. "

More about Art Van Furniture, LLC.: Art Van Furniture, LLC is the Midwest's No. 1 furniture and mattress retailer with 184 stores in nine states operating under the following brands; Art Van Furniture, Art Van PureSleep, Art Van Flooring, Scott Shuptrine Interiors, Levin Furniture, Levin Mattress, Wolf Furniture and Gardiner Wolf Furniture. Founded in 1959, the company is headquartered in Warren, Mich. Art Van Furniture owned by Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. of Boston. For more information, visit artvan.com.


More about Levin Furniture: Founded in 1902, Levin Furniture has 35 furniture and mattress showrooms and clearance centers in Northeastern Ohio and Southwestern Pennsylvania. For more information, visit levinfurniture.com.


More about Wolf Furniture: Wolf Furniture was founded in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1902, and purchased Maryland-based Gardiners Furniture in 2015. The company has 18 furniture showrooms in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. For more information, visit wolffurniture.com.

More about Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P.: Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. is a premier private equity firm investing in middle market growth companies, headquartered in North America, exclusively in four industry sectors: Business & Financial Services, Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, and Media, Information Services & Technology. Using the firm's deep domain expertise and the internal operating capabilities of its Strategic Resource Group, THL seeks to create deal sourcing advantages, and to accelerate growth and improve operations in its portfolio companies in partnership with management teams. Since its founding in 1974, THL has raised over $22 billion of equity capital, acquired over 140 portfolio companies and completed over 360 add-on acquisitions which collectively represent a combined enterprise value at the time of acquisition of over $200 billion.