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Business Briefs

Peachtree City-based Crown Andersen, Inc. announced recently that

Tom Graziano became president of its Griffin

Environmental Company, Inc. subsidiary in Syracuse, N.Y.

Crown's chairman, Jack Brady, said that Graziano is

the most highly respected filtration equipment company

executive in the U.S. and perhaps in the world.

As vice-president and general manager of Research

Cottrell's Flex-KLeen filtration subsidiary in 1984, he took the

business from two years of losses with less than $10 million in

revenues to $25 million in revenues and $2.3 million

in profits in 1990.

Crown Andersen is a manufacturer of engineered

environmental and waste management products.

RESTORx recently named Fayette County High

School graduate Vince Stuntebeck as its marketing

communications manager. Stuntebeck will work in the company's

corporate office in Tyrone and also do marketing for the

company's new branch office in Columbia, S.C.

The company is a full service fire and water damage

restoration and reconstruction company.

Stuntebeck most recently worked as a marketing

and public relations intern for Trident Health System

in Charleston, S.C.

Wm. Ronald Duffey, president and CEO of

Peachtree National Bank, recently announced that

Allan Payton has joined the company as vice president and commercial

loan officer.

"The South Metro area is a rapidly growing market

and Peachtree National Bank has a strong team of bankers to

meet that challenge. Allan's banking experience and his

involvement with the community make him a great addition to our

team," Duffey said.

Payton has more than 16 years of banking experience

in the area and is a graduate of the State University of

West Georgia with a degree in political science. He is also

a graduate of the Advanced Commercial Lending School

at the University of Virginia.

Four representatives from Coldwell Banker Bullard

Realty attended the Coldwell Banker Bullard Realty attended

the company's International Business Conference in San Diego.

Owner and president Steve Bullard, relocation

director Wanda Hughes, Susan Clowdus from the Henry County

office and Nell Greene from the Fayette County office were among

the nearly 7,000 sales associates attending the event.

Highlighting the conference was the launch of the

Coldwell Baker Concierge program and its bold, new "I Am

Coldwell Banker" advertising campaign.

The new program is a groundbreaking,

value-added program targeted to the busy home buyer and seller.

The conference also featured information-packed

educational courses and seminars which focused on helping brokers

and sales associates continue to provide the highest level

of service for their clients.

"The IBC gave us an opportunity to attend dozens of

valuable seminars that featured some of today's most

accomplished business authors and real estate industry educators," said

Bullard. "Through these educational courses, we are able to polish

our skills as real estate professionals and learn about cutting

edge techniques and technology available to us. As the real

estate industry evolves, Coldwell Banker remains focused on

the consumer."

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