Five industry veterans have been elected to the board of directors of the International Housewares Association. The new directors are Alexander Gransbury, founder and CEO, Dreamfarm; Lauren Greenwood, president, YouCopia Products, Inc.; Henry Liu, president & CEO,...
Key housewares supplier executives will sit in the Housewares Hot Seat during the International Housewares Association’s Chief Housewares Executive SuperSession 2024 (CHESS), September 24 and 25 in Rosemont, IL. The Housewares Hot Seat panel — “Strategies for a...
KitchenSupply has named gourmet housewares veteran Karen Chandler western sales manager. KitchenSupply markets kitchenware under such brands as Escali, The London Sip (pictured above), Joyce Chen and Cold Stone Pizza Kitchen. Chandler has 13 years of experience in...
The Kitchen Supply Family of Brands has named Debbie Povia senior sales manager. Povia joins Kitchen Supply with more than a decade of housewares sales management experience with such companies as Stone Lain, Instant Brands, Browne, Smeg and Oliso. “(Povia) brings a...
Things looked grim on the transportation front when Amtrak announced on September 14 that it had suspended long-distance passenger service for September 15 and the National Retail Federation issued a warning about the crippling impact of a nationwide rail strike...