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| EX-10.1 - EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT - LAKELAND INDUSTRIES INC | lake_ex101.htm |
Exhibit 99.1
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202 Pride Lane SW
Decatur, AL 35603
(256) 350-3873 - www.lakeland.com
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Lakeland
Industries Bolsters Executive Management Team with Creation of New
Position for EVP Global Sales and Marketing
Steven L. Harvey, a Data-driven Multinational Sales Veteran,
Appointed as Company’s First Executive to Lead Coordinated
Global Sales, Marketing and Customer Service Strategy
DECATUR,
AL -- December 30, 2020 -- Lakeland Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: LAKE)
(the “Company” or “Lakeland”), a leading
global manufacturer of protective clothing for industry, healthcare
and to first responders on the federal, state and local levels,
today announced the appointment of Steven L. Harvey to the newly
created position of Executive Vice President for Global Sales and
Marketing, effective January 4, 2021. Mr. Harvey is a proven sales
leader with over 25 years of progressive executive responsibility
focused on managing sales organizations and utilizing analytics to
drive revenue growth from large multinational corporate accounts
and national and municipal government agencies. The EVP Global
Sales and Marketing position will report to Charles D. Roberson,
President and CEO of Lakeland Industries.
Commenting
on the executive appointment, Mr. Roberson stated, “We are
very pleased to expand the depth and strength of our executive
management team with the addition of Steven Harvey at a time when
we have been rapidly growing our top line and global customer base.
The newly created position is consistent with our continued
vertical alignment of our operational functions which is intended
to provide agility within business disciplines to capitalize on
market opportunities while yielding productivity efficiencies. As
Executive Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing, Steve will
leverage more than two decades of experience in technology and data
driven sales systems for publicly traded and private companies
larger than Lakeland.
“Under
Steve’s leadership, we will for the first time globally
coordinate and unify all sales, marketing and customer service
strategies. This effort follows similar steps we have recently
taken, including the company’s appointment of our first
Global Supply Chain Manager, to develop and implement strategies to
further enhance our manufacturing resiliency and flexibility which
we expect to attain from capacity expansions at our production
facilities in multiple international locations. These expansions
will be fungible across our primary product lines for disposable,
chemical and Critical Environment. Each of these developments
complements the others and collectively, when combined with the
continued investments in our ERP system, Salesforce CRM rollout,
and data-centric planning processes, is expected to serve as a
catalyst for continued growth while providing greater productivity
and efficiencies.”
Throughout
his career of more than 25 years, Steven L. Harvey has focused on
international and domestic sales growth, sales analytics, customer
service, customer retention and team building. Prior to joining
Lakeland, Steve spent over ten years leading global sales and
service for a multinational corporation and was heavily engaged in
strategic business development with municipal and other government
agencies. Earlier, he held sales and leadership roles of increasing
responsibility for two companies, the latter was publicly traded
with a $600 million market capitalization. He began his career with
Procter and Gamble after graduating from Indiana
University.
About Lakeland Industries, Inc.
We
manufacture and sell a comprehensive line of industrial protective
clothing and accessories for the industrial and public protective
clothing market. Our products are sold globally by our in-house
sales teams, our customer service group, and authorized independent
sales representatives to a network of over 1,600 global safety and
industrial supply distributors. Our authorized distributors supply
end users, such as integrated oil, chemical/petrochemical,
automobile, steel, glass, construction, smelting, cleanroom,
janitorial, pharmaceutical, and high technology electronics
manufacturers, as well as scientific, medical laboratories and the
utilities industry. In addition, we supply federal, state and local
governmental agencies and departments, such as fire and law
enforcement, airport crash rescue units, the Department of Defense,
the Department of Homeland Security and the Centers for Disease
Control. Internationally, we sell to a mixture of end users
directly, and to industrial distributors depending on the
particular country and market. Sales are made to more than 50
countries, the majority of which were into the United States,
China, the European Economic Community ("EEC"), Canada, Chile,
Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan, Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, India,
Uruguay and Southeast Asia.
For
more information concerning Lakeland, please visit the Company
online at www.lakeland.com.
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Contacts:
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Lakeland
Industries, Inc.
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Darrow
Associates
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256-445-4000
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512-551-9296
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Allen
Dillard
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Jordan
Darrow
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aedillard@lakeland.com
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jdarrow@darrowir.com
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“Safe
Harbor” Statement under the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995: Forward-looking statements involve risks,
uncertainties and assumptions as described from time to time in
Press Releases and Forms 8-K, registration statements, quarterly
and annual reports and other reports and filings filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission or made by management, as well
as the uncertain impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. All statements,
other than statements of historical facts, which address
Lakeland’s expectations of sources or uses for capital or
which express the Company’s expectation for the future with
respect to financial performance or operating strategies can be
identified as forward-looking statements. As a result, there can be
no assurance that Lakeland’s future results will not be
materially different from those described herein as
“believed,” “projected,”
“planned,” “intended,”
“anticipated,” “estimated” or
“expected,” or other words which reflect the current
view of the Company with respect to future events. We caution
readers that these forward-looking statements speak only as of the
date hereof. The Company hereby expressly disclaims any obligation
or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any
such statements to reflect any change in the Company’s
expectations or any change in events conditions or circumstances on
which such statement is based.