by Peter Giannetti | Oct 21, 2025 | Featured News, Trade Shows & Associations
GC Buying Group announced the retirement of its founder and president, Janis Johnson, who has sold the 44-year-old buying organization for independent housewares retailers to gourmet retailing veteran Doug Huemoeller. Huemoeller, a past member of the GC staff, is the...
by Peter Giannetti | Dec 17, 2024 | Retail Articles, Trade Shows & Associations
GC Buying Group has announced its 2025 advisory board of retailers, assembled to provide insight into challenges and opportunities for GC independent kitchenware retail members and GC vendors. The 2025 GC retailer advisory board is: Angela Skogen, Cooks on Main,...
by Mike Duff | Mar 17, 2024 | Cookware, Home + Housewares, Kitchenware, The Inspired Home Show, The Inspired Home Show 2024
With a focus on iconic design and superior functionality, Joseph Joseph is celebrating its 20th anniversary in business with the debut of Space, its first cookware collection. It will showcase the new collection at The Inspired Home Show. Five years in the making,...
by Mike Duff | Nov 30, 2023 | Featured News, Retail Articles
After enduring pressure from an investor and ousting CEO Jonathan Johnson, Beyond, the former Overstock now operating online as bedbathandbeyond.com, announced Camping World chief Marcus Lemonis will join Allison Abraham as co-chairs of the company board of directors....
by Mike Duff | Nov 6, 2023 | Featured News, Retail Articles
Jonathan Johnson, who steered Overstock.com’s transformation into the new Bed Bath & Beyond, has departed the company on the day, November 6, it officially changed its corporate name to Beyond, Inc. Johnson, as Overstock CEO, oversaw the acquisition of Bed...
