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NEW YORK-Many of the trends in photo frames echo those seen in tabletop and other home decor categories: namely, an emphasis on color and texture. Bright metals, brushed finishes and [...]

NEW YORK-With a plethora of current events affecting all aspects of life, some manufacturers have concerns for the fourth quarter gift-giving season and are in limbo as to how it [...]

NEW YORK-Whether stainless-steel, sterling-silver or silverplated, flatware suffered a decline in sales from 2003 to 2004. Silverplated continues to dramatically drop, sterling went down almost 3 percent and stainless less [...]

Byline: Carla Webb NEW YORK-The continuing success of such designer programs as Kate Spade and Vera Wang may have accounted for the slight upswing in upstairs dinnerware in 2004. Meanwhile, [...]

NEW YORK-As improvements in design and quality in glassware continue to grow, so does the category itself, picking up 2.8 percent in sales last year over 2003. What used to [...]

Byline: Carla Webb, Allison Zisko and Barbara Thau contributed to this report. NEW YORK-Key items are going to drive the fourth-quarter shopping season, according to manufacturers and retailers. According to [...]

NEW YORK-Another year of flat sales in the tabletop category only hints at the sea change the industry has been undergoing, as well as its struggles to remain afloat and [...]

NEW YORK-Gibson USA is expanding its global reach by opening its first official warehouse and its first permanent showroom in China. 'Our international business is growing -- it's our next [...]

NEW YORK-Tabletop frame manufacturers have recently begun to hit the wall -- and have found it a successful and promising experience. Wall decor has become a popular offshoot of the [...]

NEW YORK-As traditional channels of distribution continue to dwindle due to closings and acquisitions and mergers, manufacturers are forced to look toward the road less traveled and search out other [...]

Byline: Carla Webb NEW YORK-July was good month for pfz. The Pfaltzgraff Co.'s pfz brand saw an upsurge in sales after the formation of an e-marketing partnership with The Knot, [...]

NEW YORK-With ever-increasing price competition from glass and its continuing improvement in design and quality, the crystal category has suffered. According to HFN's State of the Industry statistics, the crystal [...]

Byline: Allison Zisko, Carla Webb contributed to this report. NEW YORK-If the tabletop and giftware business has become more item-oriented, then last week's International Gift Fair at the Jacob K. [...]

Byline: Allison Zisko and Carla Webb NEW YORK-This year's listing of the leading tabletop retailers gives only a partial glimpse of what is happening in the struggling category. While a [...]

NEW YORK-ASA Selection comes to the New York International Gift Show this week with a particular feather in its cap: The German tabletop manufacturer is opening its first shop-in-shop concept [...]

NEW YORK-While not among the largest categories in giftware, religious items do provide a steady business for retailers, with the emphasis on Judaica or Christian-related items shifting demographically. 'Both categories [...]

NEW YORK-Alessi is extending its Midwest reach this fall by opening a shop-in-shop at the Marshall Field's store on State Street in Chicago. Jan Vingerhoets, executive vice president of the [...]

Byline: Carla Webb In the tabletop and gift industry, no other category does the teen and tween business quite like photo frames and albums. With the onslaught of such specialty [...]

NEW YORK-While the lion's share of dinnerware is ceramic, there is a customer and a niche for glass dinnerware, at all levels of retail and all price ranges, according to [...]

NEW YORK-After a few years of substantial growth, metalware designer Michael Aram is expanding into other home categories and even thinking about opening a retail location. 'I want to be [...]

NEW YORK-The bridal gift with purchase still proves an effective marketing tool, though its usefulness is being measured in different ways by those in the formal dinnerware and flatware categories. [...]

NEW YORK- Spiegelau Crystal has named Gerhard Vollath managing director for the brand worldwide. He succeeds Johan Nagel, who has left the company. In his new position, Vollath hopes to [...]

NEW YORK-Tabletop is a highlighted category for online retailer Home Decor Products this year, as it bulks up its assortment and creates a new Web site, DishDetectives.com. HDP already does [...]

NEW YORK-The popularity of martinis, margaritas and mojitos may have helped ring up big sales in barware in recent years, but it's stemware that drives the overall business, tabletop vendors [...]

NEW YORK-Barware business across the country is primarily driven by wine consumption and the ancillary products that go with it, according to an informal survey of vendors and retailers. The [...]

NEW YORK-Barware performs well across all retail channels of distribution and across all seasons, but there are definite areas of strength on both counts, according to HFN statistics. Specialty stores [...]

NEW YORK-United Kingdom-based housewares company Typhoon is making its way to the states, hoping to carve out a niche and create brand recognition while bulking up its tabletop category. 'We [...]

NEW YORK-While the rest of the world is caught up in the stemless wine tumbler craze, Bormioli Rocco is focusing on water. The Italian glassware maker has added a water-tasting [...]

Byline: Carla Webb and Allison Zisko NEW YORK-Engaged couples readily place everything from lawn mowers to camping equipment on their bridal registries. But according to some vendors and retailers, they [...]

PORTLAND, Maine-Lifetime Brands' recent move to acquire The Pfaltzgraff Co. not only expands Lifetime's tabletop reach, but may also give new life to the struggling tabletop manufacturer. Jeffrey Siegel, Lifetime's [...]

NEW YORK-It's been a good year for designer Marc Blackwell. After an up-and-down 2004 -- during which one of the factories his company, Marc Blackwell New York, was using closed, [...]

Byline: Carla Webb NEW YORK-Everything old is new again in tabletop. Well, at least some things are. While many manufacturers are looking to the next new thing, some are sticking [...]

Byline: Carla Webb and Allison Zisko NEW YORK-Dinnerware and beverageware have melamine and acrylic promotions for the summertime, but what about flatware? Without a warm-weather counterpart, other than plastic-handled versions, [...]

NEW YORK-Whether it be in material, color or pattern, many of the photo frame introductions at last week's National Stationery Show here highlighted looks and ideas from the fashion world [...]

LAS VEGAS-It may not be the beloved San Francisco, former home to the Gourmet Products Show, but Las Vegas is no schlub in the fun-cities-to-visit department. Tabletop vendors assembled here [...]

LAS VEGAS-Along with the new name, the new location and the new venue for the Las Vegas Gourmet Housewares Show this week, there will be new (and returning) tabletop vendors [...]

NEW YORK-Maybe it's because there needed to be another hot item after the coffee craze, or possibly it's due to the ever-important influence of Europe. Or maybe it's in response [...]

NEW YORK-J.P. Products has been showing off its newest incarnation, J.P. Designs, at its latest round of trade shows. J.P. Designs is the brainchild of David Mackrell and Timothy Feeney, [...]

NEW YORK-Designstyles, formerly Framestyles USA, has not only changed its name, the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company has changed its product assortment, its look and its packaging in hopes this will translate [...]

Byline: Carla Webb YORK, Pa.-Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff Co. said last week that it will explore the sale of its Pfaltzgraff tabletop division, as well as Susquehanna Media Co., two of its [...]

NEW YORK-There are no big-name introductions expected at the Spring Tabletop Show here this week, but there is a solid roundup of new product. The emphasis will continue to be [...]

NEW YORK-Tienshan has joined forces with designer Trish Richman to create a new line of dinnerware and accessories, which the company is highlighting at next week's tabletop show here. Trish [...]

NEW YORK-Two weeks before the New York Tabletop Show, the showroom landscape was still shifting and changing. The fact that there is a new showroom building in town shouldn't be [...]

CHICAGO-From bell-bottoms to VW Bugs to ponchos, everything is coming up '70s. Even in the world of tabletop, where a renewed interest in reactive glazes reminiscent of the hand-thrown pottery [...]

CHICAGO-Many tabletop manufacturers at last week's International Home & Housewares Show were still trying to adjust to the change in the show's timing, while some were concerned about its close [...]

CHICAGO-Precidio is coming to the International Home & Housewares Show here this week with a new brand that showcases a new design direction for the company. After years of melamine [...]

Chicago-After a one-year absence from the International Home & Housewares Show, Zak Designs is back this week with a product lineup that highlights the company's push into adult tabletop. While [...]

CHICAGO-When a trend is around for a long time, it becomes a classic. Which is just what happened with the contemporary, modern trend. The sleek lines, organic and geometric shapes, [...]

CHICAGO-Judging from the range of looks and styles -- and products -- that Circle Glass is showing here at the International Home & Housewares Show this week, it's clear that [...]