People – August 2004

• John Hamby joins Bonsal American Co. as area sales manager for Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. He previously owned Hamby Tile and Stone in Dallas.
• Hugo Vega joins Georgia Marble Dimension Stone as sales and marketing manager. Before joining the Tate, Ga.-based company, he worked for parent company Polycor as sales manager for North America and Europe for the quarry division in Canada.
• Creative Materials Corp., an Albany, N.Y., regional and national distributor of architectural tile, brick and stone, names Robert H. Smythe as manager of finance and operations, and Brendan P. Reuss as national account sales representative
• Park Industries of St. Cloud, Minn., adds Gary Loidolt to its customer-service team for the architectural division; and, in the interiors division, Tim Hommerding and Neil Martin as field-service technicians, and Brian Novitzki as field-service installer.