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Housewares Industry Veteran Mark Eichhorn Named New CEO of the Oneida Group
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Housewares industry veteran Mark Eichhorn has joined The Oneida Group as the company’s new CEO as the global leader in tabletop and kitchen solutions continues to chart a positive course forward, buoyed by a committed ownership group. Having previously served as President and CEO of The Oneida Group’s core business, Anchor Hocking, from 1994-1999 and its predecessor company, EveryWare Global, Inc., from 2004-2012, Eichhorn has returned to accelerate the company’s focus on innovation, operations, customer service and strategic growth. The news comes on the heels of the closing of a $50 million capital ... |
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AMERICASMART® Continues Support Of Museum Store Association
ATLANTA – November 2, 2018 – The Museum Store Association returns to AmericasMart®with its celebrated international shopping campaign, Museum Store Sunday, setting the stage for The Museum Collective product presentation reprise at the January 2019 Atlanta International Gift and Home Furnishings Market. The Museum Collective opens just weeks after Museum Store Sunday, for which AmericasMart will again serve as a Founding Sponsor. Set for Sunday, November 25, 2018, the annual shopping event builds on the success of its inaugural presentation in 2017 with more than 800 museum stores in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, 10 countries, and three continents offering inspired ... |
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Sysco Corporation Celebrates 2018 Supplier Excellence Awards and Names General Mills Foodservice Supplier of the Year
HOUSTON, Nov. 02, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sysco Corporation (NYSE:SYY), the leading global foodservice distribution company, today announced the winners of the 2018 Sysco Supplier Excellence Awards. This program recognizes the commitment, support and partnership of suppliers and brokers who help best deliver Sysco’s vision of being our customers’ most valued and trusted business partner. The 2018 award recipients were selected based on sales growth and support, operational excellence and other key business performance metrics laid out by Sysco’s merchandising, quality assurance and supply chain departments. Winners are recognized as Gold, Silver or Bronze. “Our customers are at the center ... |
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Gift for Life To Honor Vera Bradley’s Barbara Bradley Baekgaard
October 11, 2018—Gift for Life, the gift and home industries’ sole charitable organization, will honor Barbara Bradley Baekgaard, Co-Founder of Vera Bradley, during the 27th annual Party for Life, Monday, February 4, in New York City. At the evening event, to be held during NY NOW, the market for home, lifestyle & gift, Baekgaard will be awarded Gift for Life’s Chuck Yancy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Barbara Bradley Baekgaard Family Foundation and Very Bradley have also jointly pledged a $50,000 donation to kick off the 2019 Party for Life fundraising campaign, which last year raised more than $225,000. In 1982, ... |
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Farmstead Now Making Bay-Area Grocery Deliveries Via Autonomous Vans
SAN FRANCISCO and SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 29, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- From Groceryshop 2018, Farmstead, the nation's first AI-powered digital grocer that sources and delivers fresh foods from farm to fridge in 60 minutes, announced that via a new partnership with Udelv, it's one of the first grocers in the country to make deliveries using autonomous delivery vehicles. Farmstead began a pilot with Udelv, the world-leading autonomous delivery van (ADV) company in September 2018, testing the customer experience of delivering via self-driving vans on select routes in the Bay Area. The process for customers is simple: Customers who have opted-in to autonomous delivery are ... |
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Ambiente 2019 To Display Interaction Between Analogue and Digital in Special Point of Experience Exhibit
Success for high street retailers – made simple with state-of-the-art technology For quite a while now customers have been expecting more from shops than the provision and presentation of products. Good customer service requires perfect interaction between analogue and digital. Ambiente, the world's leading trade fair for the consumer goods industry, is holding a special presentation called Point of Experience for the second year running. The show will demonstrate how analogue and digital will eventually be combined in the world of shopping. The special presentation Point of Experience has been planned by Design- und Realisierungsbüro Gruschwitz GmbH together with the ... |
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SIAL Paris 2018 Achieves Record Attendance
The Planet Food Commitment to Taste - True - Meaning! So now it's over… Well, not quite! Although SIAL Paris 2018 closed its doors on Thursday 25 October, the ideas, discoveries and inspirations proposed by this year's edition will continue to resonate for a long time to come on Planet Food. The Paris-Nord Villepinte exhibition venue, the stage for SIAL Paris, has been the scene of five truly action-packed days! 5 days bubbling over with ingredients, recipes and flavours, in a "Frenchy" atmosphere but with a distinctly international feel. 5 days to offer the world's biggest showcase to Planet Food, ... |
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Lenox Corporation Appoints Mads Ryder as Chief Executive Officer
BRISTOL, PA—(October 26, 2018)—Lenox Corporation (“Lenox”), America’s leading tabletop brand, today announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Mads Ryder as Chief Executive Officer. Mads joins Lenox after holding multiple leadership positions at top European consumer companies, including IC Group, Royal Copenhagen, Weightwatchers, and LEGO Group. Marc Utay, Chairman of the Board of Lenox, commented “We admire Mads’s impressive track record building brands and effective organizations. While he was CEO of Royal Copenhagen, we watched Mads reposition one of the tabletop industry’s most prestigious, though aging, brands into what is now a highly relevant and vibrant brand in Denmark ... |
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2018 Sweets & Snacks Expo Showcased Innovative Trends and Transparency Initiatives
Washington, D.C. (June 21, 2018)—The 2018 Sweets & Snacks Expo, the annual trade show hosted by the National Confectioners Association (NCA) and the premier event for the candy and snack industries, was held May 22-24 in Chicago. With 18,000 professionals from the confectionery and snack industries and 810 exhibiting companies, including more than 100 first-time exhibitors, attendees experienced new or soon-to-launch innovative products, flavors and packaging, most of which will be available to consumers by fall 2018. The Expo provided companies of all sizes the opportunity to promote their latest products. Thousands of products debut each year at the Expo ... |
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Gruyère AOP Announces Winners of 2018 Scholarship Contest
Pringy, Switzerland – Today the Interprofession du Gruyère is pleased to announce the winner of their 2018 ‘Scholarship’ Contest, launched in December of 2017. In fact, part of the news is that there is again, as in 2016, not just a single winner. This year, we have two! The judges felt that the quality of the competition, held among American Cheese Society Certified Cheese Professionals®, was so extraordinary that choosing multiple victors was the only way to properly honor the endeavor. The winners will receive a trip to the Gruyères Region of Switzerland in the autumn of 2018, where they ... |
