{"id":22552,"date":"2011-04-06T07:30:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T14:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22552"},"modified":"2011-04-07T10:03:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:03:47","slug":"nhs-gets-a-grip-on-bud-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22552","title":{"rendered":"NHS Gets A Grip On Bud Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mr<\/a>If everyone got a Jim Phillips<\/a><\/strong> graphic as cool as Mob Grip’s<\/a><\/strong> new Sales Manager Bud “Mr. Griptape” Smith<\/strong> did when he was hired, we’d be running all kinds of business promotional news bits.<\/p>\n

“Mob Grip is first and foremost a great product,” says Bud. “When you add amazing team riders and marketing, consistent quality and an innovative high performance product offering, it truly is a complete package. It\u2019s all backed by a focused skateboard company committed to re-investing in skateboarding. I am very excited to be involved. I have no doubt the future looks bright.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sure enough.“Mr. Griptape” Bud Smith joins Mob Grip at NHS, Inc.<\/p>\n

NHS is proud to welcome Bud Smith to the sales team as Mob Grip Sales Manager.<\/p>\n

“Mob Grip is first and foremost a great product,” says Bud. “When you add amazing team riders and marketing, consistent quality and an innovative high performance product offering, it truly is a complete package. It\u2019s all backed by a focused skateboard company committed to re-investing in skateboarding. I am very excited to be involved. I have no doubt the future looks bright.”<\/p>\n

Bud is a great addition for the future of Mob Grip,\u2019 says Bob Denike, CEO\/President of NHS. When we heard he was available to help with our griptape program, it was a no brainer for us to bring him on. We look forward to working with Bud and his many established relationships in skateboarding.”<\/p>\n

Richard Novak, Chairman and founder of NHS had this to say, “Bud is Mr. Griptape and he is the final piece to our griptape puzzle. Welcome aboard Bud!”<\/p>\n

Bud will work with the existing NHS sales team to build international and domestic distribution. He will also develop strategic partnerships with other skateboard manufacturers and build the co-branded and shop Graphic Mob griptape programs. Bud states, “I\u2019m confident I\u2019ll be able to apply my knowledge, strong relationships and expertise and help grow this brand and product.”<\/p>\n

With over 25 years of experience in the skateboard griptape business, Bud Smith brings a wealth of knowledge and a lifetime of industry relationships to NHS. He is a founding member of the International Association of Skateboard Companies. He was also chairman of the organization that built the Skate Zone skate park in McHenry, IL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If everyone got a Jim Phillips graphic as cool as Mob Grip’s new Sales Manager Bud “Mr. Griptape” Smith did when he was hired, we’d be running all kinds of business promotional news bits. “Mob Grip is first and foremost a great product,” says Bud. “When you add amazing team riders and marketing, consistent quality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22552"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22572,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22552\/revisions\/22572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}