GLOBAL DESIGN TEAM CZECHS IN TO LIRA Larson-Juhl’s global design team, which is based in Atlanta, regularly visits our factory in Lira in the Czech Republic as part of its new product development remit. During the most recent visit, team director Kiva Connor was interviewed about the collaboration across the sites. Kiva Connor
What was the reason behind your latest visit to Lira? Our product team went to Lira for two main reasons. The first was to review progress of a specific new range that is in the pipeline. It’s vital that we don’t miss the chance to adjust the final appearance on the back of feedback from the sales and marketing team. These products comprise of hand-finished mouldings, so a big emphasis is placed on personal inspection of the first batch off the manufacturing line in order to achieve the optimum result for all production to follow. Another reason was to talk about totally new projects. We have design suggestions for 2019 and 2020 and we wanted to discuss our ideas and give the team in Lira some insight about new trends which we have gathered from the global marketplace. The team in Lira also comes up with great ideas, and sharing all this creativity is very important if we want to deliver the very best portfolio.
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