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When Freddie Georges was a little girl,
her parents would constantly return home to a redecorated home. Not
once, not twice, Ms.
Georges’ “home”-work
was an ongoing occurrence her parents came to expect, and eventually, to enjoy.
Ms. Georges’s natural inclinations were further nurtured when she entered
Virginia
Commonwealth University’s Department of Interior Design—a program
recognized by Interior Design magazine as one of the top five in North America.
After graduating
with a Bachelor’s Degree, Ms. Georges expanded her work from interior
design to include innovative museum exhibits and installations.
Her first job was with the prestigious firm Design and Production, Inc., based
in Lorton, Virginia, which specializes in museum design, fabrication and installation.
After a few years of straight museum work, Ms. Georges was able to expand into
the trade show business, through D+P’s small trade show division. Her first
project was the AT&T booth at Comdex. Ms. Georges spent five years at D+P,
developing an expertise into the world of trade show design and production. When
Giltspur, now known as the ExhibitGroup/Giltspur (EGG), a Los Angeles-based trade
show exhibit firm recruited Ms. Georges in 1985, she headed west—where
she has resided ever since. From the time she started at EGG, Ms. Georges was
consistently the firm’s top producer.
After five extremely successful years with EGG, she started thinking about
her next move. After interviewing with a few companies, she had an epiphany—she
remembered back to 1981, during her first interview for Design and Production—when
she was asked the standard interview question, “What are your long term
goals?” She quickly responded that she wanted to own her own company.
So, she enlisted several of her EGG colleagues and Premier Displays and Exhibits
was formed. The company quickly grew and gained blue chip clients including:
Bausch and Lomb, MGM, Fila, Pharmacia, Rainbow Media Holdings, King World and
Upjohn.
Ten years later, Ms. Georges reached a new milestone when she created the Freddie
Georges Production Group (FG|PG).
Identifying a need for a new kind of company whose mission was to produce
innovative interior environments, museum displays, trade show exhibits and corporate
events with a higher level of service and a new kind of economic value to the
client, FG|PG launched with five key clients who had previously done business
with Ms. Georges, including Rainbow Media who has been a client for more than
17 years.
A serial entrepreneur, Ms. Georges also is a partner in FormDecor, a classic
modern furniture rental business that offers the collections of Charles and Ray
Eames, George Nelson, Mies Van Der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Harry Betoia as well as
other well-known mid-century designers.
FG|PG is a woman-owned business committed to supporting other women-owned and
operated businesses. Ms. Georges is an active member of the National Association
of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and Exhibit Designers and Producers Association
(EDPA) as well as Women in Cable and Telecommunications (WICT) and Cable and
Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM).
Ms. Georges is also a world traveler, with Africa, Europe, China, Japan and
the Middle East among the places she has explored. She uses her extensive travel
as “on-going education” enabling her to bring a global perspective
to the way she approaches business.
FG|PG is proudly associated with the following organizations:
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