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NXTI News Next Inc. Announces New Vice President of Planning and Development; Position to Focus on Maximizing Operational Efficiencies
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 2005--Next Inc. (OTCBB:NXTI) an emerging leader in the sportswear and promotional products industry today announced that Mr. Rick Talbert has joined the Next Inc. team as V.P. of Planning and Development.
Rick, a high impact leader with a record of implementing change and achieving results in multiple settings, joins Next Inc. after spending the last 10 years with Honeywell International working as a Critical Projects Manager with integrated supply chains in addition to being an Operations Team Leader in a significant business unit. His background is in Program/Project management, Operations Management and Supervision. He holds an MBA from Purdue University, Krannert Graduate School of Management.
Rick will be taking over the responsibility of analyzing inventory needs, purchasing, and learning the general facets of Next Inc. with a focus on maximizing operational efficiencies, overall business potential and increasing bottom line profitability.
Jason Assad, Director of Investor Relations commented, "We're extremely pleased to welcome Rick to the company. As the company continues to expand, it's imperative that we continue to add quality personnel to facilitate and oversee that growth. Rick's skill sets are perfectly suited to fill a vital roll within Next as we aggressively focus on making sure our strong revenue growth translates into bottom line profits. We firmly believe he will compliment existing management in addition to providing very tangible results for the company and its shareholders."
Next, Inc. is a creative and innovative sales and marketing organization that designs, develops, markets, and distributes licensed and branded promotional products and imprinted sportswear primarily through major college and university, motor sports and other major promotional key licensing agreements and the Company's own proprietary designs. Next is one of the dominant companies in the highly fragmented licensed promotional products and imprinted sportswear industries.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which contains a safe harbor for forward-looking statements. The Company relies on this safe harbor in making such disclosures. The statements are based on management's current beliefs and assumptions about expectations, estimates, strategies and projections. These statements are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements.
