by Peter Giannetti | May 13, 2025 | Featured News, Home + Housewares
Editor’s Note: This report has been revised to indicate that Chinese imports subject to a 25% stainless steel and aluminum tariff are exempt from the temporarily reduced 10% reciprocal tariff. Housewares suppliers said uncertainty remains a challenge despite the...
by Peter Giannetti | Jan 5, 2024 | Appliances, Featured News, Home + Housewares, Kitchen Electrics
Kitchen electrics developer and marketer Select Brands named company veteran Eric Endres president, succeeding his father, Bill Endres, who remains chairman of the company. Select Brands develops and markets kitchen electrics under such brands as Toastmaster, TRU,...
by Peter Giannetti | Mar 23, 2023 | Featured News, The Inspired Home Show 2023, Trade Shows & Associations
The housewares industry raised $1 million during the 2023 Housewares Cares Charity Gala presented by the Housewares Charity Foundation (HCF). Proceeds from the March 6 event, held at the Four Seasons Chicago in conjunction with The Inspired Home Show 2023, benefited...
by Peter Giannetti | Mar 7, 2023 | HomePage Views, The Inspired Home Show 2023, Trade Shows & Associations
Extensive follow-up from The Inspired Home Show 2023 is already beginning by suppliers, retailers and other allied businesses that attended the show. So… What did we learn at this year’s show? We learned the show came at an opportune time for an industry still...
by Peter Giannetti | Mar 1, 2023 | The Inspired Home Show 2023
For Select Brands President Bill Endres, the urgency of charity is something for which you are not always prepared. The 53-year small appliance industry veteran who founded Select Brands in 1998 has worked to cultivate for his company a charitable culture supporting...
