GC Impact Winner: Mark A. Hershey, Armstrong World Industries
Armstrong World Industries Inc. designs and manufactures floors and ceilings. Based in Lancaster, Pennsylavania, Armstrong operates 35 plants in the United States, Canada, Australia, China, France, Germany, India and the United Kingdom, with about 8,700 employees. The company began in 1860 as a two-man cork-cutting shop in Pittsburgh and didn't sell flooring until 1909.
June 19, 2017 at 02:31 PM
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Armstrong World Industries Inc. designs and manufactures floors and ceilings. Based in Lancaster, Pennsylavania, Armstrong operates 35 plants in the United States, Canada, Australia, China, France, Germany, India and the United Kingdom, with about 8,700 employees. The company began in 1860 as a two-man cork-cutting shop in Pittsburgh and didn't sell flooring until 1909.
Mark Hershey is the senior vice president, general counsel, corporate secretary and chief compliance officer of Armstrong World Industries, Inc. In 2016, he led Armstrong through its historic separation of the company's flooring business into a separate, independently traded public company.
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