INDUSTRY NEWS Olympia Tile+ Stone celebrates 90 years in business Olympia Tile + stone celebrated its 90th anniversary with a spec- tacular event held at the Evergreen Brickworks, a 125-year old restored brickworks, in Toronto, Canada on May 4th. Over 3,000 people attended the extravaganza to view products and partake in the “passport-themed” event. Attendees were furnished with “passports” that traced their travels through the world of tile with over 40 vendor booths and food from 15 different coun- tries. “Flight attendants” mingled through the crowd and a flight simulator let everyone take their chance at being the next “Sully.” The event continued the fol- lowing day with a tour of the 35,000-sq.-ft. Toronto showroom and the one million-sq.-ft. break- bulk facility in Vaughn, Ontario. This main staging area for Olympia Tile+ Stone houses over 140,000 pallets of tile and 30,000 slabs of marble, granite, limestone, quartz and porcelain panels. This event provided hats-off con- gratulations to Ralph Reichmann, president of Olympia Tile Group, and the 900 employees from Olympia Tile+ Stone who go above and beyond every day for their customers. For more information, visit http:// tileletter.com/2017/06/olympia- tile-stone-celebrates-90-years-in- business/ THF celebrates 30 years in Doylestown Tile Heritage Foundation cele- brated its 30th Anniversary Gala on Friday, May 19 in Doylestown, Pa., with a party co-hosted by Tile Heritage Foundation, Bucks County Historical Society and Moravian Pottery and Tile Works. The Foundation used the Gala as a platform to present the Tile Heritage Award, which honors an individual who embodies the Tile Heritage mission in some exem- plary way: promoting an awareness and appreciation of ceramic sur- faces in the United States. The 14th Tile Heritage Award was presented to Cleota Reed, the author of the book, H e n r y Chapman M e r c e r and the Moravian P o t t e r y Olympia Tile Group president Ralph Reichmann playing “Sully” on the flight simulator at the company’s 90th anniver- sary celebration. John Beasley produced the THF 30th Anniversary tile. 98 TileLetter | August 2017