Zheng Zhang recruits Bannon for design 

-- Kids Today, 5/9/2008 8:38:00 AM

NEW YORK – Fashion bedding supplier Zheng Zhang USA has named Pat Bannon director of design.

Bannon has held similar posts at Thomasville Home Furnishings, Carolina Creations, and Fabrican. With her designs for textiles, decorative bedding, free standing window treatments and decorative pillows, she has also worked as a home fashions consultant. Clients have included Waverly, S. Lichtenberg, Lawrence Home Fashions, and Arlee Home Fashions.

When fresh out of F.I.T., Bannon originally started as a textile designer at Cannon Mills and Burlington Industries.

With design teams in Shanghai and the United States, Zheng Zhang USA has a core line of traditional quilts for the adult, juvenile and crib classifications. The company also produces bedspreads, comforters, duvets, coverlets, throws, bed skirts, shams, decorative pillows, and sheets. Direct sourcing is supplemented by a service replenishment business based in Edison, N.J.