1-800 CONTACTS Names Allen Hwang Chief Marketing Officer; Dave Walker, Vice President of Operations, Receives Expanded Duties
1-800 contacts logo. (PRNewsFoto)
LOS ANGELES, CA USA
DRAPER, Utah, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Allen Hwang, a former marketing executive at Procter & Gamble and Pabst Brewing Company has been named Chief Marketing Officer at 1-800 CONTACTS. Concurrently, the company also announced that Dave Walker, Vice President of Operations, has received additional executive duties.
Both personnel decisions were announced by Brian Bethers, president of 1-800 CONTACTS.
Hwang, who has been at 1-800 CONTACTS since 2005, most recently as the company's Vice President of Marketing, assumes greater marketing responsibilities including new initiatives associated with one of the country's largest retailers. In that capacity, Hwang will lead a major integration effort involving the company's phone and web services.
Hwang received a Bachelor's degree from The Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He held brand management positions at The Gambrinus Company and Procter & Gamble, and was Director of Marketing at Pabst Brewing Company prior to joining 1-800 CONTACTS.
Walker was given additional executive responsibilities associated with one of 1-800 CONTACTS major retail partners that involves personnel training. This new assignment is in addition to Walker's ongoing responsibilities managing the company's call center, distribution center and verification department.
Walker has been at 1-800 CONTACTS since 2001, where he was hired as the company's Call Center Director. In 2006, he was promoted to Vice President. Prior to joining 1-800 CONTACTS, Walker was Director of Owner Services for the Marriott Vacation Club International and also worked for Covey Leadership Center. He attended Boise State University and Brigham Young University.
Background on 1-800 CONTACTS
1-800 CONTACTS, based in Draper, Utah, is the world's largest contact lens store. The company stocks almost 10 million contact lenses and delivers over 150,000 every day directly to customers. 1-800 CONTACTS has delivered over 16 million orders to more than five million customers since the company was created in 1995. Through its easy-to-remember, toll-free telephone number "1-800 CONTACTS" (1-800-266-8288) and its Internet Web site, www.1800contacts.com, the company sells all of the most popular brands of contact lenses including Acuvue Oasys,Acuvue Advance, and Focus DAILIES. High volume, cost-efficient operations enable 1-800 CONTACTS to offer products at competitive prices while delivering a high level of customer service.
