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IHA Announces gia Product Design Finalists
The 70 finalists in the IHA Global Innovations Awards (gia) for Excellence in Product Design have been announced by the International Housewares Association. Global honorees in each of the 14 categories will be announced during the invitation-only gia dinner Saturday, March 4, during The Inspired Home Show 2023, IHA’s Global Home + Housewares Market, at Chicago’s McCormick Place Complex.
Entries were judged by a panel of industry experts and news media. The finalists and global honorees will be on display in an exhibit in the Hall of Global Product Design in the Grand Concourse Lobby of the North Building as well as in the New Product Showcases located in the Buyers Club in each Show building. The Inspired Home Show opens at 10 a.m. on March 4 and runs through 3 p.m. March 7.
“Congratulations to all of the finalists for an IHA Global Innovation Award for Excellence in Product Design,” said Derek Miller, IHA president & CEO. “Product innovation is the engine that keeps the home + housewares industry vibrant and profitable. It is our pleasure to honor the brands and designers that continue to push the envelope and delight both buyers and consumers.”
The gia product design finalists are:
Bath & Personal Care
Company: Product
F&H Group A/S: Zone Denmark – TIME Bath series
Jobar International, Inc.: Clear View Digital Scale
Moso Natural: Natural Scent-Free Bathroom Spray
Prospera Corp.: RF 5 in 1 EMS Micro Current LED Light Anti Aging Massage Device
Stasher: Everyday Beauty Bag
Cleaning
Bradshaw Home: Casabella Clean Water Spin Mop
Bradshaw Home: Evercare Duo Pet Hair & Lint Remover
simplehuman: 14-oz sensor pump with caddy
simplehuman: paper towel pump
The Procter & Gamble Company: Bloom Planter
Cook & Bakeware
Clipper Corp.: Viking Contemporary Copper 4-Ply 9 Piece Cookware Set
Gourmet Kitchen Works LLC: Genetti Fan Lid
Hestan Culinary: Hestan OvenBond 5pc Set
Newell Brandss: Rubbermaid® DuraLite™ Bakeware
THE COOKWARE COMPANY (USA), LLC: GreenPan GP5 Stainless Steel Collection
Home Décor & Gifts
Be Home: Pali Recycled Leather Floor Basket
F&H Group A/S: Zone Denmark – INU Vases
INNOVATIVE FOUNTAINS, INC.: noBrn-Sustainable Luxury Home Fragrance™
TV Productions, Inc.: The Doorhickey
Wrap-It Storage: MagSnap – Magnetic Snap Wristband
Home Organization & Storage
Brabantia USA: Bo Trash Can Hi, 1.8 Gallon
Freshlink Product Development, LLC dba PREPARA: Expandable + Adjustable Utensil Organizer
Grand Fusion Housewares, Inc.: Roll-Up Drying Rack with Collapsing Utensil Holder
Polder Products, LLC: Handle-It™ Storage Canisters
YouCopia: StoraRoll™ Food Wrap Dispenser
Household & Home Electrics
BeiAng Air Tech Ltd.: Airdog MOI Mist Free Evaporative Humidifier
Crane USA, Inc.: Cool Mist Collapsible Humidifier
IRIS USA, Inc.: 360 Degree Stand Fan
Roborock (HK) Limited: S8 Pro Ultra
Zafferano America: Theta Lamp
Kitchen Electrics
Jura Inc.: GIGA 10
Lomi: Smart Waste Appliance
Ooni Limited: Ooni
StoreBound: Dash Digital Turbo Hand Mixer
THE COOKWARE COMPANY (USA), LLC: GreenPan Premiere XL Smoke-Less Grill & Griddle
Kitchen Hand Tools & Cutlery
Dreamfarm: Sharple
Evriholder Products, LLC: Bag Preservers
Gourmet Easy: Fine and Coarse Garlic Press
Gourmet Kitchen Works LLC: GEFU Four Way Grater VCUT with adjustable slice
Pro4uk Ltd: POPit Jar Opener
Kitchenware
Dreamfarm: Fluicer
Dreamfarm: Ograte
OXO: OXO Good Grips 8-Piece Refrigerator Organization Set
Progressive International Corp.: Prepworks Valencia EZ Juice
That Inventions: ChillTHAT Platter
Luggage, Travel Goods + Accessories
DripLock: DripLock
FLYYPOD: FLYYPOD® SLEEP POD
Matador: Globerider45 Travel Pack
Pang Wangle: Bug Repellent Tranquil Blanket with Insect Shield® Repellent Technology
Sherpani: Soleil AT
Pet Products
Dexas International, Ltd.: Snack & Distract Licking Mat
License-Way: SimplyCare Litterbox
Neater Pet Brands: FurDozer X6 Pet Hair Remover
Paikka: PAIKKA Cool Bowl
Trinity: TRINITY 20 Litter Box Enclosure End Table w Drawer
Smart Home Products
Chefman: CHEF iQ Smart Thermometer™
CookingPal Ltd.: Pronto and Alto by CookingPal
Growgreen Limited: aspara® Stylist Lite Smart Grower – Art Series
Hamilton Housewares P. Ltd: Milton Smart Range
Withings: Body Comp
Sustainable Products
Brabantia USA: Sort & Go Stackable Bin
LARQ, Inc.: LARQ Bottle Filtered
Loopy Products: Sustainable Coffee Mug – Made with Waste from Coffee Manufacturing
Magisso North America: KONNA Fly Trap
The FRESHGLOW Co.: FRESHPAPER Pick-A-Size Produce Saver Sheets
Tabletop
Freshlink Product Development, LLC dba PREPARA: ZIP LIP SALT PIG
madesmart: Dipware Appetizer Tray
Sempli: Monti-Mini Decanter + Monti-Rosso
United Sales & Marketing Inc.: Re-Gen Ontario collectio
VIVA Scandinavia: The Peaks Glass Set of 4
The judging panel for the annual IHA Global Innovation Awards (gia) included housewares buyers from retailers including Ace Hardware, Albertsons, Artichoke, The Container Store, The Cook’s Warehouse, Dreamscape, Event Network, Giant Eagle, HTI Buying Group, In the Kitchen, JCPenney, Kitchen Shop, Lekka Retail Concepts, Leon & Lulu, National Building Museum, Nebraska Furniture Mart, Pampered Chef, Quality Products, Sign of the Bear, Toque Blanche and Yestis. Other judges included consumer editors, bloggers and many distinguished industry designers.
View the finalists in each category here TheInspiredHomeShow.com/awards/gia-product/
The Inspired Home Show, IHA’s global home + housewares marketplace, will be held March 4-7 at Chicago’s McCormick Place Complex. For more information about the 2023 Show and to register for a Show badge, please visit TheInspiredHomeShow.com/register.
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New Products on Display at Atlanta Market
As Atlanta Market closes, here’s a glimpse of some of the new products that were showcased:
JURA (B2 8-869B) – For the latest in coffee brewing technology and innovation. The new E4 is a full-sized coffee machine focused on brewing café quality coffee and espresso – always freshly ground, not capsuled – plus it can deliver hot water on demand for Americano or tea. The new E6 for the best-loved specialty coffees at the touch of a button thanks to its Easy Cappuccino function. Stop by for a complimentary coffee. (Samples are limited).
Capresso (B2 8-869B) Reimagines some of its most popular products in a new contemporary color choice: White. The CoffeeTEAM GS coffeemaker that grinds beans right before brewing – the Infinity Plus Conical Burr Grinder that grinds coffee beans to specification – and the H2O Glass Rapid-Boil Water Kettle for tea, French-press coffee and more.
CDN (Kasperzak & Assoc. B2 8-876, B2 8-8120A, B2 8-881B) – Accurate temperature readings achieve the best culinary results – new Lollipop Thermometer. Plus, the Coffee Scale and Timer measures small quantities of coffee, tea, spices and more with unusual precision, to one tenth of a gram (0.1 g) – ideal for pour-over coffee aficionados – for bakers who know the benefit of exact measurements – and more.
Ankarsrum – (Synergy Sales Associates B2 8-837) – The aspirational choice in stand mixers adds a new color, Harmony Beige. The new Stainless Steel Beater Bowl, a new accessory for producing sky-high meringues, crispy-chewy macarons, luxurious frostings, or perfectly creamed butter and sugar for the tastiest cookies. (Samples are limited).
Fissler – (Kitchen 2 Table B2 8-891A) – Premium cookware, Made in Germany. Chef Lars Liebisch will demonstrate the difference exceptional cookware can make through Friday, Jan. 13. Liebisch will showcase a wide range of Fissler’s award-winning Made in Germany cookware, from the new innovations of Ceratal® Comfort Ceramic Fry Pans to healthy cooking made easy with Vitavit Premium Pressure Cookers – The Healthy Cooker.
Universal Electronics Unveils Smart Home Innovations
Universal Electronics Inc., a global leader in wireless universal control solutions for home entertainment and smart home devices, debuted its latest innovations and solutions transforming device and ecosystem control and support experiences at the Consumer Electronics Show. The company showcased how it intelligently connects, controls and supports millions of entertainment and smart home households globally.
QuickSet Cloud provides a scalable platform for simplifying onboarding and control across entertainment and smart home devices and has been adopted by many of the world’s leading brands. With a run rate of over 288 billion transactions annually, this platform has helped customers discover over 1.6 billion devices during 2022. During this period, QuickSet’s discovery and setup capabilities are estimated to have saved TV operators and their installation partners over 4 million hours of programming time by automating the device discovery and set-up process and increasing the automated discovery and set-up success rate of new devices connected to Smart TVs by an estimated 80 percent.
QuickSet is an integral component of major TV and TV operator systems and is the primary solution for easy discovery, setup and control for millions of entertainment and smart home devices. Today, QuickSet smart home services are the technology behind the Home Dashboard of LG TVs and provide a complete and simplified control experience for millions of households. The platform has continuously expanded with new capabilities including enhanced communication protocols, such as Matter, IP, Zigbee 3.0, Zigbee RF4CE, CEC and infrared.
QuickSet is a Matter Certified Software Platform. Matter, announced by the Connectivity Standards Alliance, is a new industry-unifying standard that enables smart devices to work together seamlessly. QuickSet, with the addition of Matter, will benefit from greater interoperability. Additionally, QuickSet 6.0 will bridge non-Matter devices into the Matter ecosystem and enable automation across the whole home, covering existing and newly installed devices.
The company showed its enhanced interoperability features on UEI’s white-label products such as the new UEI TIDE thermostats and its smart home gateway, Nevo Butler. In addition, the company announced the expansion of its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE connectivity silicon and module line-up with the new bare metal UE51 QuickSet Widget.
As more and more connected products are introduced and expected to work together, the challenge of onboarding, troubleshooting, and supporting all these devices inside the different ecosystems increases. To address this, the company has expanded its device and system knowledge base beyond just control and introduced several services to help consumers.
As part of the company’s commitment to providing customers with the best possible support experience, the company has launched , a turnkey white-label companion app and SDK for onboarding, troubleshooting and controlling its devices. Available as a bundled service on many UEI products, including the new UEI ETERNA remotes and UEI TIDE thermostats, this service helps customers quickly install and set up their devices.
UEI Virtual Agent, an innovative self-service support solution, simplifies device onboarding by allowing customers to seamlessly hand-off the process from a large screen (SmartTV) to a smaller one (mobile phone). With QuickSet integration, UEI Virtual Agent provides automated steps for onboarding, feature discovery and troubleshooting capabilities and is available both as a web-based application and a TV app for integration into existing infrastructures. UEI Virtual Agent, when bundled with a set of UEI NetReady services for remote diagnostics and customer support, will further enhance the support experience for millions of currently deployed products in the home.
“Our software product teams have developed next-generation software services that make connectivity work seamlessly with many platforms and standards in the consumer device industry. We are proud to showcase groundbreaking solutions for consumers and customers that eliminate the headaches associated with everyday connectivity issues,” said Arsham Hatambeiki, SVP of Product and Technology.
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InventHelp Client Develops Self-Sustaining Dehumidifier for Bath, Kitchen
A Boynton Beach, Fla., inventor has developed a self-sustaining, remote controlled dehumidifier.
“I wanted to create an automatic means of maintaining the humidity level in a kitchen or bathroom,” said the inventor, who was not identified by InventHelp. “My design would offer ambient air humidity control to eliminate moisture and mold growth.”
The patent-pending invention provides an improved dehumidifier for under bathroom and/or kitchen sinks. In doing so, it helps to maintain lower levels of ambient air humidity. As a result, it helps to reduce the growth of mold and mildew and it enhances safety and convenience.
The invention features an automatic design that is easy to use so it is ideal for households and businesses.
The original design was submitted to the Fort Lauderdale sales office of InventHelp. It is available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers. For more information, write Dept. 21-FJK-206, InventHelp, 217 Ninth Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368. Learn more about InventHelp’s Invention Submission Services at http://www.InventHelp.com.
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Hamilton Beach Brands CFO Resigns
Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company announced that Michelle O. Mosier, senior vice president and chief financial officer, has accepted the chief financial executive role at another public company and has resigned effective Jan. 13.
Gregory H. Trepp, president and chief executive officer, said, “I would like to thank Michelle for her leadership, dedication and many important contributions to the company. As a key member of our executive management team, Michelle has played an integral role in positioning Hamilton Beach for growth as we continue to make progress with our strategic initiatives. An additional part of Michelle’s strong legacy is the outstanding Finance team she has built. We wish Michelle the very best as she embarks on a new opportunity.”
Mosier said, “It’s been a privilege to be part of an outstanding organization and I thank the entire Hamilton Beach team for their support. I’m pleased with our many accomplishments and leave with confidence that Hamilton Beach is well positioned for continued growth and success.”
Mosier has overall responsibility for the company’s finance, accounting, internal and external financial reporting, treasury, tax, risk management and investor relations. The company will begin a search for Mosier’s successor immediately.
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