Fetta and Gallivan presented with 2007 Associate Member of the Year awards from CIBS

The Commercial Industrial Brokers Society of Long Island (CIBS) presented its 2007 Associate Member of the Year Awards to Chuck Fetta, president of Office Furniture Warehouse, of Islandia, and John Gallivan, president and chief executive of Waldner's Business Environments Inc., Farmingdale. The awards were presented November 1 at CIBS annual Meet Your Associates Party at the Fox Hollow Inn, a catering facility. "These men exemplify outstanding leadership and deserve recognition for their contribution to the endeavors of our professional organization," said Raymond Ruiz, president of CIBS. Eight years after developing a business at the now-defunct Roosevelt Raceway Flea Market, Fetta opened The Office Furniture Warehouse in 1987. Today, the company sells to local and national clients, including LIPA, Computer Associates, Riverhead Building Supply, Austin Travel, Viacom-MTV Networks, Cambridge/Brighton Credit Counciling, Suffolk County, Nassau County, Stony Brook University, dozens of Long Island school districts, and others. Gallivan joined Waldner's in 1984 as vice president/general sales manager, and became president in 1991 and CEO in 1999. Waldner's, established in 1939, is an office furniture distributor with annual sales of more than $90 million with three locations serving the N.Y. metropolitan area.