The Kitchen and Bath Industry Show (K/BIS) held at Chicago's McCormick Place in April gathered more than 900 exhibitors and thousands of attendees from around the world, focusing on the latest trends and future ideas in kitchen and bath designs.
Home Decorators Collection (HDC), which offers catalog and online sales of home décor merchandise, will become part of Home Depot Direct, the direct-to-consumer division of The Home Depot. Home Depot Direct provides home improvement and décor merchandise through in-store catalogs, mail-order catalogs and Web sites with delivery directly to customers' homes.
Franke Consumer Products announced the retirement of Thomas M. Smith, a 20-year veteran with the company who most recently served as president of the company's Kitchen Systems Division.
ISH Kitchen and Bathroom in Dubai, May 14-16, has increased by 30% since last year. Now in its third year, organizers of the event expect an overall increase of more than 50% at the time of this writing.
Blanco America has named Don Faquhar logistics and supply chain distribution manager. He had been serving the company as operations manager since 1996.
Murray Supply Co. (Winston-Salem, NC) hosted the April American Society of Interior Designers meeting at The Fuller House showroom located at the Winston-Salem branch. Cyndi Fuller, showroom manager of The Fuller House in Cary, led the discussion with the assistance of American Standard representative Erik Andrews and Elkay representatives Peter McCranie and Chuck Pearson.
Hansgrohe announced its Axor Starck X, by designer Philippe Starck, received multiple design awards in 2005, including iF design awards for its single-lever, wall-mounted faucet, the Axor Starck Waterwall shower system, the Axor Starck semi-professional kitchen faucet, the two-handle high spout faucet from the Axor Uno2 collection, the Raindance Air Royale showerhead, and the Raindance Air Rainmaker, which features a 24-inch face and five different spray modes.
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