Julien, a supplier of stainless steel kitchen equipment, has added three rep firms: Luxury Marketing in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area; Stehr Enterprises for Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland and Delaware; and Hot2Cold for the Midwest.
Alsons Corp. is the recipient of a platinum ADEX award for the 7-Spray Shower Head, which features seven spray functions, including a massage, full spray for maximum water coverage and trickle setting for shampoo/soap-up.
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.