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New Kyocera Duo: 3-Inch Paring Knife with Vertical Double Edge Peeler
Kyocera creates a natural add-on sales opportunity with a new set that pairs two popular kitchen essentials: the Kyocera 3-Inch Paring Knife with Vertical Double Edge Peeler. Both feature ultra-sharp blades made of Kyocera’s exclusive advanced ceramic, which stays sharp 10 times longer than metal blades.
These tools stand out for their beauty and lightweight, ergonomic design. Comfortably curved handles with a contoured grip – available in black, red or green – make cooking prep easier.
The pure white ceramic blades will never rust, corrode or transfer a metallic taste or smell. Kyocera’s one-of-a-kind advanced ceramic, Zirconia 206, is strong and dense, 50 percent harder than steel, yet typically half the weight of steel.
“Peelers and paring knives are two of the most requested items in kitchenware. Our new set gives consumers a reason to trade up to higher quality and double their purchase with two everyday essentials packaged together,” said Denise Bernstein, Marketing and Sales Manager at Kyocera.
The Vertical Double Edge Peeler peels with either a forward or backward motion, for twice the utility of a single edge blade. It provides an optimal cutting angle to glide effortlessly through carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, apples, pears, cheese, chocolate and more. Because of its superior design and materials, there is no need to blanch tomatoes before peeling them.
The 3-Inch Paring Knife is a mainstay of the Kyocera Ceramic Cutlery collection, ideal for fruits, vegetables, herbs and boneless meats. It is created with a combination of technological innovation and the skills of master craftsmen, who hone the razor-sharp blades by hand on a fine diamond wheel.
The Kyocera 3-Inch Paring Knife with Vertical Double Edge Peeler comes in a boxed package with a suggested retail price of $29.95. It is available for immediate shipment.
For additional information, visit www.KyoceraAdvancedCeramics.com.
New Microplane Elite Box Grater Reimagines Traditional Four-Sided Design
Expanding its signature Elite Series collection of innovatively designed hand-held rasp and paddle shaped graters, Microplane® introduces its new Elite Box Grater (model 34009). Maximizing the functionality of traditional box graters, which typically include 2-4 different blades, the new Elite Box Grater is a space-saving 5-in-1 grating tool sporting five made in the USA stainless steel Microplane blades: Fine, Coarse, Ultra Coarse, Ribbon, and Large Shaver.
One of the two larger panels cleverly combines two blades – Fine and Coarse. The Fine blade is perfect for grating lemons, oranges and other citrus to create flavorful zest without any bitter white pith, and for transforming chunks of hard cheese, such as Parmesan, into pillow-soft, fluffy mounds. The Coarse blade offers a larger texture grating of all types of hard cheese, carrots, coconut, and other ingredients for savory and sweet dishes.
The second large panel is reserved for Microplane’s largest blade style, the Ultra Coarse, which is ideal for grating cabbage, zucchini, potatoes, apples, and other ingredients that require a larger grating surface.
One of the two narrower side panels of the Elite Box Grater features Microplane’s popular bi-directional Ribbon blade for grating chocolate and soft cheese, such as mozzarella and ricotta salata, with greater ease and speed. On the opposite side panel, cooks can use Microplane’s Large Shaver to effortlessly shave bars of chocolate, hard cheeses, cucumber, ginger, and other ingredients.
The Elite Box Grater features a contemporary ergonomic design that is both stylish and durable for long-lasting use. The non-slip handle and rubberized bottom provides maximum comfort, leverage, and stability when grating a myriad of ingredients on any of the five blade surfaces.
For added convenience, the Elite Box Grater includes a removable bottom tray to catch grated ingredients and eliminate messy clean up, as well as a clear window on the sides with measurement markings up to 2.5 cups capacity for accuracy when following recipes.
Crafted in black, the Elite Box Grater is dishwasher safe.
Available now exclusively at Williams-Sonoma for $39.95 suggested retail, the new Microplane Elite Box Grater will be offered at other retail stores nationwide in August 2015.
For more information on the Elite Box Grater and other premium quality kitchen tools from Microplane, consumers are welcomed to visit the company’s website: www.microplane.com, or call toll-free 800.555.2767.
Babs Blair Named Dallas Market Center Director of Leasing
Babs Blair has been named director of leasing by Dallas Market Center. In her new position, Blair is responsible for overseeing the growing Dallas Temp Show categories of Furniture, Home, and Luxury Home.
“Babs brings extensive experience, strong industry ties and a great understanding of our business,” said Cindy Morris, COO, Dallas Market Center. “Her enthusiasm and genuine passion for customer success will be instrumental as we continue to grow our temporary resources and reinforce our position as the best wholesale marketplace for buyers and exhibitors around the world.”
“Dallas Market Center is a thriving marketplace with tremendous positive momentum, and I am thrilled to be a part of its continuing success and to serve an industry and marketplace I know well,” said Blair.
Blair brings nearly 30 years of experience to Dallas Market Center in business development, prospecting, sales, and business promotion. Her entire career has been devoted to the home furnishings and accents trade show industry.
Blair is a marketing management alumna of the University of Mississippi. She has served as co-chair of a committee responsible for the west coast fundraising of the City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment hospital. Together with her husband, they have five sons and eight grandchildren.
The growing Dallas Temp Show offers 24 distinct, easy-to-shop locations spanning more than 500,000 square feet, and is located in high-traffic areas during Total Home & Gift Markets. The expanding product categories offer unmatched buying opportunities from furniture, housewares and holiday to gift, apparel, accessories, and much more – with 93 percent of buyers shopping eight or more categories. The thousands of temporary exhibitors join the more than 1,200 permanent showrooms that call Dallas home.
Zoku Character Pops Countertop Display Unit
New from Zoku, a colorful Character Pops countertop display unit is now available to promote and merchandise this creative collection of traditional ice pop molds in fun shapes. The whimsical cast of eight characters beacons consumers from the front panel.
The compact CDU holds 24 units, three each of eight charming designs, including Bunny, Frog, Hedgehog, Kitty, Owl, Princess, Songbird and Turtle. Zoku Character Pops make it fun and easy to create homemade ice pops from fruit juice, flavored yogurt and more. Each reusable stick has a built-in drip guard and is specially designed to match each character. After freezing the pop in the freezer, just pull up on the stick to hear it release with a “pop” sound – no rinsing required.
The display unit encourages consumers to collect all eight designs, with suggestive selling and brightly colored images of all the Characters on each individual box. Zoku Character Pops turn ice pops into collectibles that make everyday snacks and desserts fun and festive.
Zoku Character Pops have a suggested retail price of $7.99 for each of the eight different designs. Zoku Character Pops and the Character Pops Countertop Display Unit are available for immediate shipping.
For more information, visit www.zokuhome.com or contact info@zokuhome.com.
IMC Announces Management Changes in Gift & Home Leasing
International Market Centers (IMC) today announced that Terence Morris has been promoted to Vice President for Gift Leasing. In addition, Vice President of Leasing for Home Décor, Lee Hershberg, expands his role to assume responsibility for leasing at the Las Vegas Design Center (LVDC) in addition to existing responsibility for home décor leasing in Las Vegas and at the International Home Furnishings Center in High Point. In addition to these two changes, which are effective immediately, Jared Worrall joins the Home Décor team as Leasing Director, moving from the furniture side of the business as of August 1, 2015.
“These changes come at an exciting time for Las Vegas Market as we continue to grow and expand the gift and home décor side of our business,” said Dorothy Belshaw, President of Gift & Home Décor for International Market Centers. “By calibrating key positions within the Gift and Home Décor leasing team we can most effectively support accelerated leasing activity in those categories and drive IMC’s long-term strategic goals. We’ve established a strong talent pool internally that we can draw from to fulfill these new positions, with current employees who are well-prepared for their expanded roles. It’s gratifying to watch.”
With his promotion, Terence Morris will be responsible for managing permanent gift leasing on floors C1, C8, C9, C10 and C11. These floors comprise 560,000 rentable square feet and include such categories as holiday/seasonal/ floral; toy/plush; baby; personal care/fragrance; stationery/publishing; fashion; accessories; trend/novelty; tabletop/decorative accessories; gourmet/housewares; candles; inspirational/religious and handmade/artisanal. Morris, who brings 25 years of direct industry experience with the last two at IMC, also assumes management of temporary tradeshow leasing at Las Vegas Market.
As Vice President of Leasing for Home Décor, Lee Hershberg expands his role to assume responsibility for the LVDC on A1-2 in addition to managing permanent leasing on floors A3-4, B3-4, C3-7 in Las Vegas and International Home Furnishings Center (IHFC) floors 2-4 in High Point. Across both campuses, these floors comprise 1.8 million feet and feature portable lighting; accent furniture; floor coverings; textiles; decorative pillows; wall art; permanent botanicals; garden décor/statuary and window coverings. Hershberg has been with the company since 2008.
Jared Worrall will join the Home Décor team as of August 1 as Leasing Director for four home décor floors in Las Vegas (B3, C3, C4 and C5), which set new precedents in the industry for lifestyle merchandising. With IMC for five years, Worrall will work closely with current director of home décor Boyd Tasker, who is leaving IMC at year-end to pursue new opportunities. Worrall’s strong leasing experience and knowledge of the home furnishings channel will afford IMC the opportunity to develop new synergies between home décor and furniture leasing. In his new role, Worrall will report to Lee Hershberg. Both Hershberg and Morris will report directly to Belshaw.
Both Morris and Hershberg have been instrumental in achieving Las Vegas Market’s strategic evolution into the most comprehensive buying platform for buyers in the western United States. The three-phase plan, which began in 2013, has been marked by the introduction of new product categories such as specialty tabletop, home textiles and lifestyle collections, fashion accessories and artisanal crafts, as well as expansion of existing categories and re-merchandised presentations. Since 2013, Las Vegas Market has experienced dramatic growth in the furniture, home décor and gift product categories, with 850,000 square feet of new and expanded showrooms and more than 1,200 new lines. The transformation and growth in gift and home décor categories resulted in the highest attendance numbers in Las Vegas Market’s nearly 10-year history at the recently-concluded Winter Market, with overall attendance gains of 10 percent from the previous year, and a colossal 21 percent jump in attendance in the gift and home décor category.
Highlights of the upcoming Summer Market include a celebration of the Market’s 10-year anniversary, creation of C11 – a new showroom floor for gourmet housewares, tabletop and specialty food, as well as the continuing growth of C5, another new permanent showroom floor for boutique home décor, high-end home textiles and accessories, and the repositioning and reimagining of the Market’s temporary exhibits as The Pavilions at Las Vegas Market, a dramatic, freestanding, climate controlled temporary tradeshow space showcasing some 90,000 net square feet of innovative and emerging gift and home décor resources. Summer Market also will mark the premiere of a casual furniture market in Las Vegas, with 250,000 square feet of permanent showrooms and temporary exhibit space on the 12th and 13th floors in Building C devoted to the casual/outdoor category.
For more information, visit www.imcenters.com.
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