HFA to Honor Trade Leaders with 2025 Awards at Excessive Level Market

The Residence Furnishings Affiliation (HFA) will current the 2025 Trailblazer Award to Todd Wanek, CEO Ashley Furnishings
Industries, LLC, the Producer of the Yr Award to Surya Inc and Companion of the Yr Award to Synchrony in three
completely different award celebrations on the upcoming Spring Excessive Level Furnishings Market. The HFA cordially invitations trade
press representatives to attend the award celebrations.

These Residence Furnishings Affiliation Awards is an annual recognition of the house furnishings trade’s highest
achievers. Nominated by the trade and judged by a panel of friends, these awards honor trade professionals.

Todd Wanek Wins HFA’s 2025 Trailblazer Award

HFA CEO Shannon Williams will current the HFA 2025 Trailblazer award to Todd Wanek, CEO of Ashley Furnishings
Industries, LLC, in an award celebration on Saturday, April 26 at 3:00 pm EST within the Ashley
Furnishings Showroom situated at IHFC – H900, Hamilton, Flooring 9.

“I’m deeply honored to obtain the HFA Trailblazer of the Yr award. This honor displays the unbelievable work of our
total Ashley group throughout the globe. For 80 years, Ashley has been dedicated to delivering the world’s greatest house
furnishing values, choice and repair, and we proceed to innovate and evolve to fulfill the altering wants of our
clients. This award is not nearly trying again at what we have completed; it is about our ongoing dedication to
transferring the furnishings trade ahead by means of expertise, steady enchancment and customer-focused options. We
are deeply grateful to the Residence Furnishings Affiliation for this honor because it fuels our ardour to proceed
pioneering improvements that can form the way forward for house furnishings.”

Surya Inc Wins HFA 2025 Producer of the Yr

HFA CEO Shannon Williams will current the HFA 2025 Producer of the Yr award to Satya Tiwari, President of Surya
Inc. in an award celebration on Saturday, April 26 at 10:00 am EST within the Surya Inc Furnishings
Showroom situated at Showplace – 4100, Flooring 4.

“Successful the HFA’s 2025 Producer of the Yr award is a real honor and a mirrored image of the robust
partnerships that drive us ahead. At Surya, we’re dedicated to delivering distinctive merchandise and repair,
working hand in hand with our clients and trade companions to create significant, lasting magnificence and worth. This
recognition is a testomony to the fervour and dedication of our group, and it evokes us to proceed elevating the bar
for innovation, high quality, and collaboration within the house furnishings trade.”

Synchrony Wins HFA 2025 Companion of the Yr

HFA CEO Shannon Williams will current the HFA 2025 Companion of the Yr award to Tony Foster, SVP, Synchrony’s
Residence & Auto, in an awards celebration on Sunday, April 27 at 10:00 am EST within the Residence
Furnishings Affiliation Useful resource Middle at Plaza Suites, first ground, I-527.

“At Synchrony, we imagine in equipping retailers with the progressive instruments and assets they should keep
aggressive in a dynamic market,” stated Curtis Howse, EVP and CEO, Synchrony’s Residence & Auto
platform. “Being named the Residence Furnishings Affiliation’s 2025 Companion of the Yr is an amazing honor
and underscores our deep dedication to offering progressive and versatile financing options that empower
companies, drive gross sales and improve the shopper expertise. We’re extremely grateful to HFA for this distinction
and look ahead to persevering with our work with its members to form the way forward for house retail financing.”

Ashley Furnishings Industries, LLC

 Ashley Furnishings Industries, LLC (Ashley) feels that each particular person deserves extra worth for his or her cash. Established in
1945, Ashley is the biggest producer of house furnishings on the earth and was named one in every of America’s Most
Reliable Corporations by Newsweek in 2023. From design by means of achievement, Ashley is dedicated to delivering the
world’s greatest house furnishing values, choice, and repair and incomes the loyalty and belief of its clients
each day. Go to Ashley on-line at www.ashleyglobal.com and
“like” Ashley Furnishings Industries on Fb.

Surya Inc

 Surya Inc. is an progressive house furnishings model catering to a wide range of life. Surya’s thoughtfully
curated design-forward furnishings, rugs, textiles, lighting, and wall decor can be found worldwide by means of main
retailers, inside designers, and on-line shops. The Surya Inc. household of manufacturers consists of Surya, International Views,
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, Livabliss, and RST Manufacturers.

About Synchrony

 Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier shopper monetary providers firm delivering one of many trade’s most
full digitally-enabled product suites. Our expertise, experience and scale embody a broad spectrum of
industries together with digital, well being and wellness, retail, telecommunications, house, auto, out of doors, pet and extra. We
have a longtime and various group of nationwide and regional retailers, native retailers, producers, shopping for
teams, trade associations and healthcare service suppliers, which we consult with as our “companions.” We
join our companions and customers by means of our dynamic monetary ecosystem and supply them with a various set of
financing options and progressive digital capabilities to deal with their particular wants and ship seamless,
omnichannel experiences. We provide the fitting financing merchandise to the fitting clients of their channel of alternative.
For extra data, go to www.synchrony.com.

About Residence Furnishings Affiliation

 The Residence Furnishings Affiliation (HFA), with roots relationship again to 1920, is North America’s largest group
devoted particularly to the wants and pursuits of house furnishings retailers, with greater than 1,400 members
representing greater than 10,000 storefronts globally. HFA supplies members with packages, assets, providers, and a
unified voice in authorities relations by collaborating with house furnishings trade suppliers, distributors,
associates, and different organizations. For extra data on the HFA, go to www.myhfa.org.