Lakeland Industries, Inc. Appoints Nikki Hamblin as Class III Director, Effective April 13, 2021
February 24, 2021 at 09:01 am EST
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On February 22, 2021, Ms. Nikki Hamblin was designated to fill the vacancy created by the Board of Directors’ increase in the number of directors constituting the entire Board of Directors of Lakeland Industries, Inc. from six to seven. Ms. Hamblin will serve as a Class III director, effective April 13, 2021 (term expiring in 2022). Ms. Hamblin is independent under The NASDAQ Stock Market Rules and the Company’s criteria for determining director independence. Ms. Hamblin, has served as the Director of Advisor Service at Manning & Napier Advisors, LLC, and is a member of Manning & Napier’s Committee for Diversity & Inclusion. Ms. Hamblin was the Director of Retirement Plan Services at GRP Financial California, LLC, a retirement plan consulting firm, from September 2017 to August 2019 and served as Vice President, Key Accounts at Manning & Napier from January 2013 to August 2017. Prior to her experience at Manning & Napier, Ms. Hamblin served as an investment banker specializing in middle-market private and publicly owned mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions.
Lakeland Industries, Inc. manufactures and sells a line of industrial protective clothing and accessories for the industrial and public protective clothing market. Its product categories include firefighter protective apparel and accessories, high-end chemical protective suits, limited use/disposable protective clothing, durable woven garments, high visibility clothing and gloves and sleeves. Its products are sold globally by its in-house sales teams, its customer service group, and authorized independent sales representatives to a network of over 2,000 safety and industrial supply distributors. Its authorized distributors supply end users, such as integrated oil, chemical/petrochemical, automobile, transportation, steel, glass, construction, smelting, cleanroom, janitorial, pharmaceutical and high technology electronics manufacturers and scientific, medical laboratories and the utilities industry. It offers structural firefighting, wildland firefighting and technical rescue helmets.
LAKELAND INDUSTRIES, INC. 
