Trade-Link.com - connecting interior designers with both clients and industry design partners.

IN OUR BUSINESS,
THE RIGHT CONNECTIONS MEAN EVERYTHING
Trade-Link.com is an interactive web portal that connects interior designers with both clients and industry design partners - some of the biggest names in the industry.

For only $55 a year, members:
 • Create a customized web page
 • Get exclusive products updates from our Industry Design Partners
 • Receive special promotions and discounts
 • Receive invitations to industry events
 • Automatically update your business profile with our Industry Design Partners

It's a 360 degree business model that revolves around you, the Trade-link.com member, both by generating new customers through your Web Page and providing the products and support from the industry's top manufacturers and suppliers so you can give your customers the very best.

A DECADE IN DESIGN
Trade-Link.com is proud to be part of an organization that has been working in the design and decorative trade industry for over 14 years. Our organization's two other services, Credit Link and PDF Systems are already highly respected members of the interior design community.

CREDIT LINK
Our Industry Partners have been using Credit Link to process new account applications, establish terms of sale and evaluate credit for design professionals for over a decade. We are the defacto industry standard for exchanging information. Learn more at www.Credit-Link.net

PDF Systems
PDF Systems designs proprietary software systems exclusively for our Industry Design Partners. PDF Systems is customized for each company and helps them run every aspect of their business more efficiently. Many of our Credit Link customers are also PDF customers. Learn more at www.pdfsystems.com.

Through Credit Link and PDF Systems, we've built strong business relationships and a strong and ethical reputation with our Industry Design Partners. And as a member of Trade-Link.com, you will reap the benefits of those relationships. No other website can offer this strong connection to both new customers and the interior design industry.

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Steve Hagen - President

Steve graduated in 1975 with a B.S. in Mathematics from the University Of Scranton. He started his career as a freelance programmer. Enjoying the freedom, he and Thomas Fulton founded their own company, PDF Systems, in 1977. Located in mid-town Manhattan, PDF Systems is a software development company that creates custom software for textile distributors, steel distributors, post-production facilities, pharmaceutical companies and mail order houses. The company has installed over 50 software systems for textile distributors located in the US and Canada. PDF Systems also created Order-Track Software for sales representatives to view real time order and product information posted on the Web by the distributors they represent. PDF is currently working on creating Web-based showroom applications.

In 1992, Steve formed Trade Management Services with Bill Peterson. TMS's main product is Credit Link, a service that allows Home Furnishing Companies to share Credit information. He designed and created the software for Credit Link and continues to make improvements and enhancements to the service.

Steve is married with 3 children and lives in New Jersey.

William Peterson - Chairman

Bill Peterson has B.S. in Finance from the University of Connecticut and an M.S. in Accounting from the University of Hartford. He is a Certified Management Accountant by trade but an entrepreneur by design. He started his career at Colt Industries in their Financial Management Training program and later moved on to a successful finance career at CONDEC Corporation, International Marine Industries and UMC Electronics, where Bill was Chief Financial Officer.

Bill next took an ownership interest in China Seas Inc. He led the company's reorganization and sold it to DSM International, where he became an owner, Senior VP and Board Member.

Bill left DSM in 1992 to start Trade Management Services, Inc. with Steve Hagen, but continued to provide management consulting services for the wholesale home furnishings industry. Recently he managed the acquisition of the Donghia Companies for a group of European investors led by Rubelli s.p.a. and is currently involved in the post-acquisition re-organization.

Bill is married with 2 children and resides in Connecticut.

Marcia Bell - Executive Vice President

Marcia Bell graduated with a B.S. in Marketing from Michigan State University. Since then, she has worked for Herman Miller and Steelcase, has had great success in textile sales, and has taken on numerous business consulting jobs with residential interior designers.

While at Steelcase, she was responsible for the Citibank and IBM accounts and traveled extensively around the world as the Global Account Manager for those accounts. Marcia worked with many designers from many cultures and countries on 5 continents. While in textile sales and through her many consulting assignments with designers, Marcia developed a passion for the world of residential designers and trade showrooms. Marcia joined Trade Management Industries in 2005 to head up the US marketing of Trade-Link.com.

Marcia lives in New York City with her two poodles, Sophie and Elliott. While she loves New York, she still holds on to her Mid-West roots.