Monday February 5 2018 THE NATIONAL MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM, BIRMINGHAM
show news Ambiente in numbers
• 142,000 buyers from 154 countries attended the five-day fair. That’s almost a 4% increase over 2016’s 135,988 from 142 countries.
• The Frankfurt fair covered 308,000 square metres. • 3,744 visitors came from the UK and Ireland: an increase of around 4% from last year.
• Next year’s Ambiente will be held from February 9 to February 13, with the spotlight on Dutch design.
Fiskars marks 50 years
Fiskars celebrated the 50th anniversary of its orange-handled scissors at the show. More than a billion pairs have been sold since 1967. The orange colour scheme came about purely by
accident. The first scissors were produced in the same factory that manufactured Fiskars juicers, where the orange colour was left in one of the machines by accident. When it came to the final vote to decide the colour of the handle, orange beat black by nine votes to seven.
GreenPan celebrates tenth anniversary
The Cookware Company commemorated the tenth anniversary of ceramic non-stick cookware brand GreenPan at Ambiente. The supplier is now onto its fifth generation of Thermolon ceramic non-stick coating: Infinity Professional. GreenPan is the brainchild of two Belgian school friends: Jan Helskens and Wim De
Veirman. Having discovered that traditional PTFE non-stick pans released toxins when overheated and used PFOA during the manufacture of the coating, they set out to create an alternative. After a long search, they found the material for their cookware range: a ceramic coating called Thermolon.
Five years ago this month in Housewares Magazine…
• Selfridges was named best department store in the world by The Intercontinental Group of Department Stores.
• Caroline Gordon, joint managing director of the Kitchen Kapers Cookshop chain in Surrey, was elected national president of the British Independent Retailers Association (bira).
• Kate Smith of Cooking Marvellous in Shrewsbury was voted CHA (Cookshop & Housewares Association) Young Retailer of the Year.
• The Cook Shop at Barton Grange Garden Centre in Lancashire was honoured in the Global Innovation Awards (gia) programme for housewares retail excellence, run by the International Housewares Association (IHA) of the US and the International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago.
• TV presenter Gok Wan launched a Channel 4 TV series and tie-in book exploring Chinese home cooking entitled ‘Gok Cooks Chinese’.
May 2017 •
HousewaresLive.net
• Divertimenti was the winner of ‘Housewares Magazine’s mystery shopper report on Knightsbridge in London, beating Harrods and The Conran Shop for being ‘a must for serious cooks’.
• Emma Bridgewater’s Diamond Jubilee range, I O Shen knives, Maxwell & Williams Slice & Dice six- piece black and white knife block set and La Cafetiere 8-cup glass refills were among best sellers cited by four independent retailers across the country.
• Department store group John Lewis opened two more John Lewis At Home branches in Newbury and Chichester, bringing the total to eight. Meanwhile, sister chain Waitrose extended its housewares offer with ‘The Cooking & Dining Range’, exclusive to the supermarket multiple.
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Source: Housewares Magazine May/June 2012
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