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Hestan Unveils Campania Pizza Oven
Hestan has unveiled its latest product for the residential outdoor kitchen, the Campania Pizza Oven. Inspired by the region of Italy recognized for the invention of pizza, the Campania Pizza Oven marries rustic, artisanal quality with modern innovation and exceptional design.
Comprised of a heavy gauge stainless steel exterior, interior double-walled body construction, a 3/4″ thick ceramic cooking hearth stone, and an efficient and powerful gas-fired radiant burner, the Campania Pizza Oven achieves and retains optimal cooking temperatures quickly with industry-leading efficiency. Its heavy-duty ceramic hearth stone creates a charred artisan crust, while the oven’s unique dome shape traps and recirculates heat for an even cook.
The 449-square-inch ceramic cooking surface accommodates both shareable and personal-sized pizzas, and can be removed from the unit for a thorough cleaning between uses. Its radiant burner technology not only creates natural convection heat for perfectly-baked pizza, but also produces high-intensity infrared rays for roasting or searing meats and vegetables.
The oven comes equipped with an attractive stainless steel cooking cavity front cover, topped with an elegant wood handle, to protect the inside of the oven when not in use, as well as an artisanal stainless steel pizza peel to help you safely insert, remove, and rotate pizza or other food items around the oven.
The Campania Pizza Oven is available in a classic stainless steel finish, or in Hestan’s 12 signature color and finish options, and can be installed as a countertop unit to complement a full outdoor kitchen, or built into a non-combustible structure.
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Grohe Releases Plan to Curb Plastic Waste
Every year, eight million tons of plastic waste fill the world’s oceans and the pollution of the oceans by plastic waste alone has increased tenfold since 1980. Grohe, part of Lixil, a global manufacturer of water and housing products, has released a three-step Less Plastic Initiative in its efforts to tackle the global waste problem and its impact on water by continuously improving its products, processes and services.
“With water at the core of our business, it is our responsibility to care for every drop of this precious resource and commit to paving a pathway for clean water worldwide. GROHE’s Less Plastic Initiative will bring us a step closer to this goal,” said Trey Northrup, Leader, Lixil Americas. “As a purpose-driven business, we are wholly dedicated to reducing the use of plastic within our own footprint and encouraging our customers to live more sustainably. Our belief is that it’s critical to give our planet the utmost care and attention now and into the future.”
In 2022 and beyond, Grohe will greatly contribute to tackling the global plastic waste problem with its three-step Less Plastic Initiative:
- Removal of Plastic from Packaging – To date, Grohe has removed and replaced all unnecessary plastic from product packaging. This has resulted in savings of around 37 million items of product packaging made of plastic.
- Development of Grohe Blue Water System – The Grohe Blue Chilled & Sparkling 2.0 water system provides chilled, filtered and, if desired, carbonated water straight from the kitchen tap – with a perfect taste.
- Partnership with everwave – Since 2019, Grohe has supported the non-governmental organization (NGO), everwave—an interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers and marine biologists developing active and passive clean-up technologies for rivers, to collect waste before it pollutes the oceans.
To learn more about Grohe’s sustainability initiatives, please visit https://www.grohe.com/sustainability/
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Kitchen, Bathroom, Office Design Contest Open
2020 and Compusoft are accepting submissions for their Global Inspiration Contest for kitchen, bathroom and office designers. The design contest provides a platform for 2020 Design Live, 2020 Fusion Live, 2020 Office, Winner and Innoplus users to be recognized for creative, functional and aesthetic design skills.
This year’s contest is sponsored by 9to5 Seating, Caesarstone and ARAN Cucine. There are 12 categories:
2020 Design Live
• Kitchen
• Bathroom
• 360° Panorama (Any Space)
2020 Fusion Live
• Kitchen
• Bathroom
• 360° Panorama (Any Space)
2020 Office
• Educational Space
• Large Office Space
• Small Office Space
Winner and Innoplus
• Kitchen
• Bathroom
• Showcase 360 (Any Space)
Multiple submissions are encouraged; each submitted design must be original. The winners will be chosen by a panel of guest judges including Business of Furniture Editor Rob Kirkbride, NKBA Director of Member Relationships Alan Dove, KBB Review Editor Rebecca Nottingham, and President of ESPRITMEUBLE Gaëtan Ménard. Grand prizes will be awarded by the sponsors as well as a Voters’ Choice prize based on votes.
The design contest closes on May 23. Winners will receive Amazon gift cards varying between $500 and $1,000 (awarded in the winners’ country currency).
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Shoulberg to Receive Gift & Home Industry Achievement Award
Gift for Life, the gift and home industries’ sole charitable organization, will honor business journalist Warren Shoulberg with its 2022 Gift for Life Industry Achievement Award on June 22 in Dallas.
Gift for Life’s Industry Achievement Award, which has been presented at Gifts & Decorative Accessories’ Retailer Excellence Awards since 2009, recognizes overall excellence and contribution to the gift and home industry – whether as a thought leader, standard-bearer or overall industry influencer.
“Warren’s journalistic excellence in the home and gift industries makes him so deserving of this special recognition,” said Cole Daugherty, chair of the Gift for Life board. “His keen observations and analysis over the decades have been a catalyst for business leaders and companies to outperform expectations and to improve manufacturing, retail and wholesale.”
As the former editor in chief for several leading business-to-business publications specializing in home furnishings retailing, Shoulberg has chronicled the good, the bad and the ugly of the business in a career spanning four decades. He has been a regular contributor to The Robin Report, Forbes.com and The Business of Home as well as his own blog Warrensreport.com.
Shoulberg served as a board member for Gift for Life for more than a decade, ending his term in 2017.
“Gift for Life is the Real Deal, and I am just thrilled to be honored by an organization I’ve been involved with as a board member, supporter and just fan of for close to two decades,” Shoulberg said. “Having this happen is really a triple treat: Besides my connection to Gift for Life, I also spent a chunk of my career with Gifts & Decorative Accessories and I am a huge supporter of José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen work around the world.”
Hosted by Gifts & Decorative Accessories, the Retailer Excellence Awards recognize excellence in seven retail awards categories, as well as the vendor and manufacturer’s rep of the year distinctions.
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Weber’s Smokefire Stealth Earns Red Dot Award
Weber Inc., a global leader in outdoor cooking innovation, technology, and products, announced ]its SmokeFire Wood Fired Pellet Grill, Stealth Edition, has been awarded a Red Dot in the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2022.
The Red Dot Design Award, established in 1955, is one of the world’s largest design competitions to recognize excellence in Product Design, Communication Design, and Design Concept, receiving more than 20,000 annual submissions from approximately 60 countries worldwide.
The SmokeFire, Stealth Edition grill, which features a sleek all-black exterior, received a Red Dot in the coveted Product Design category for its innovative and high-quality design..
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