Kathy Pear
Special guest
Kathey Pear opened Pear Commercial Interiors in Boulder in 1984 and became a dealer for the Haworth office furniture line. Expanding into Denver in 1989, Pear Commercial had grown annual sales to nearly $30 million with hundreds of clients throughout Colorado and nationwide. Pear was selected for the Haworth’s President’s Circle Award every year from 1993 to 1998 when Kathey left the company.
Kathey served as a manufacturer’s rep and marketing consultant in the furniture industry for several years and worked in the software services and mortgage industries. In 2004 she opened her second commercial furniture dealership, Citron WorkSpaces.
After selling Citron in 2014, Kathey created Pear Project Services, to provide planning, design and product specification, evaluation and liquidation services for corporate, hospitality, healthcare, and senior care facilities. Kathey and her team provide a wide variety of services including strategic workplace consultation—specializing in shared or co-working facilities—move management, project management, furniture appraisal, liquidation, and furniture disposition (resale/donation/ sustainable recycling of excess furniture).
Kathy Pear has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Market Meets: Kathy Pear with Pear Project Services
March 31st, 2020 | Season 1 | 32 mins 29 secs
business, business life, furniture, heidi schamber, kathy pear, market meets, market meets podcast, office, office culture, office furniture, office life, office recycle, pear project services, podcast, rachel rohrig, recycle
Pear Project Services (PPS) helps businesses solve office furniture problems. The PPS team, led by Kathey Pear, brings creativity to the complex and often messy commercial move process. We are passionate about keeping reusable office furniture from being dumped into a landfill simply because there are no good alternatives.
PPS does not have “not-for-profit” status. We call ourselves an NJFP, “Not Just for Profit”, organization. The revenue stream that we generate from facilities decommissioning and product resale must cover the cost of our labor, vehicles, warehouse facility rental, and other expenses. While our primary goal is to help businesses solve logistics problems and keep furniture in circulation, without a revenue stream we would not be able to keep our doors open or provide our clients with a way to “Save the Furniture”.
We take no-longer-needed or excess furniture from larger companies and re-home as much as possible with not-for-profit groups, start-ups, and smaller companies that need good used furniture. Every project presents a unique combination of reusable products for us to donate, resell, recycle, and repurpose.
Creativity and the sincere desire to “Save The Furniture” is our secret sauce.
We are proud to report that only a small percentage of the furniture we handle ever ends up in a landfill.