by Peter Giannetti | Feb 25, 2025 | Appliances, Home + Housewares, Kitchenware, Organization & Cleaning
Housewares industry sales management veteran David Pearlman recently passed away unexpectedly. He was 59. Pearlman spent more than 35 years in the housewares industry. After a short period as a housewares sales sub-representative, Pearlman founded his own sales...
by Peter Giannetti | Jan 14, 2022 | Cleaning Tools, Organization & Cleaning
Housewares and supermarket industry veteran Edward Spitaletta, who pioneered Clip Strip point-of-purchase merchandising, passed away this week. He was 91. Spitaletta’s career started in 1955 as a route driver for a wholesale rack jobber in Jersey City, NJ. He later...
by Peter Giannetti | Aug 30, 2021 | Dinnerware, Featured News, Furniture, Tableware
Alan Heller, who brought affordably priced, sophisticated design to American homes for half a century, is remembered as a visionary housewares innovator and provocateur who marked a creative era. Heller died in his New York City home on August 13; he was 81....