Owner: Deon Foster Location: Portsmouth, Va. Founded: 1998 What is special about The Kitchen Koop? The retailer’s customers say it is the store’s service and great selection of cookware. They come in and stay a while, enjoying the Southern hospitality. “Dropped in with my spouse after a lunch date just to look around,” writes one customer. “We spent a lovely hour or so…
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Why Your Customers Bought Your Competitor’s Product
IHA speaks with Michael Liebowitz, CEO of Magnetic Mind Studio, about his upcoming presentation at the 2017 International Home + Housewares Show. The Innovation Theater will feature 21 presentations over four days covering topics ranging from new product development to the smart home. Magnetic Mind Studio, based in California near San Francisco, is a consulting agency…
CONTINUE READINGIHA Working with the AAP Coalition to Provide Border Adjustment Tax Information
The International Housewares Association, representing the more than 1,700 housewares suppliers around the globe, is working with the Americans for Affordable Products (AAP), a growing coalition of more than 100 businesses and trade associations that represents millions of American jobs, to provide information on the Border Adjustment Tax or BAT. AAP is running a national…
CONTINUE READINGDiscovering Design: Meet Design Trifecta
Get acquainted with the people behind Design Trifecta and other companies with stylish products that will appear at the 2017 International Home + Housewares Show in Discover Design. We are speaking today with Sara Leggett, co-founder of San Francisco-based Design Trifecta, makers of the unique 360 Knife Block. Sara, where do you find inspiration when designing new…
CONTINUE READINGDiscovering Design: Meet Maia Ming Designs / Big Arrow Ceramics
Get acquainted with the people behind Maia Ming Designs / Big Arrow Ceramics and the other companies offering stylish products that will appear at the 2017 International Home + Housewares Show in Discover Design. Based in Barcelona, Spain, designer Maia Ming Fong returns to the International Home + Housewares Show to present her latest elegant tableware that appeal to…
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