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Cuisinart Wins IACP Award for Recipe Widget
Stamford, CT – Cuisinart has been selected as a 2009
IACP (International Association of Culinary
Professionals) Award of Excellence Winner for its
recipe widget. The Cuisinart widget provides home
cooks with access to the company’s entire recipe
database, and consists of multiple applications,
including video recipes and the ability to email the
widget to friends.
Selected as the best in the Corporate Marketing
Campaign category, Cuisinart’s recipe widget provides
home cooks with access to the company’s extensive
recipe database, and offers 26 video recipes featuring
both master chef Hubert Keller, and chef and author
of The Wine Club, Maureen Petrosky. Cuisinart will
continue to add new video recipe material throughout
the year to expand the offering for consumers. In
IHA Council Extends Support
for Independent Retailers
Rosemont, IL – The Gourmet Trade Development
Council, an advisory group to the International
Housewares Association (IHA) made up of industry
suppliers who are IHA members, affirmed its mission to
offer support to independent retailers at its meeting just
before the International Home + Housewares Show
(IH+HS) in March. As a step in that process, the Council
announced that it will author a series of Best Practices
Reports detailing processes and activities that have been
shown to be the most effective in relationships between
buyers, sellers and sales representatives. The Council is
currently recruiting sales representatives who are active
in gourmet trade and will share the results with the
industry. The documents will be available later this year.
The Gourmet Trade Development Council was
established in 2008 after several IHA members and
addition, the company’s widget can be sent to friends
with the click of a button and allows users to send
ingredient lists or full recipes to smartphones or mobile
internet devices for convenience in the grocery store.
“The IACP is one of the most prestigious and respected
culinary associations in the world, and we are honored
to have received their Award of Excellence for our
recipe widget,” said Mary Rodgers, director of marketing
communications for Cuisinart. “Our goal in creating this
widget was to provide our customers with the latest tools
to help make their lives easier in the kitchen.” She
added, “The company’s new recipe widget engages
consumers and perpetuates the sense of family and
community that customers have come to expect from
Cuisinart.” To experience the Cuisinart Recipe Widget
firsthand, visit www.cuisinart.com/recipes/widget.
concerned industry participants suggested that more
resources were needed to support participants in the
gourmet category. The Council sponsors IHA’s
Specialty University held the day before the IH+HS,
free consulting to independent retailers offered during
the Show and IHA’s partnership in an annual retailer
education conference.
“IHA and the Council are dedicated to providing
support for this very important segment of the
housewares industry,” said Robert Laub of Harold
Imports who chairs the Council. “These Best Practices
documents will go a long way toward developing more
effective working relationships between retailers and
reps and between reps and suppliers.” A list of
Gourmet Retailer Development Council members is
available on IHA’s Web site, www.housewares.org.
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KITCHENART BY FOX RUN CRAFTSMEN
Dual Twist Mill
[tel] 800-372-0700
www.kitchenart.com
www.foxruncraftsmen.com
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VIC FIRTH INC.
Waverly & Cascade Mills
[tel] 800-894-5970
www.vicfirthgourmet.com
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KYOCERA
Everything Mill
[tel] 714-428-3710
www.kyoceraadvancedceramics.com
LINDEN SWEDEN
Tulip Spice Grinder
[tel] 952-465-0052
www.lindensweden.com
JASCOR HOUSEWARES INC.
Vic Firth Distribution in US
Mark McEwan Mill
[tel] 905-477-5420
www.jascor.com
www.vicfirthgourmet.com
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[tel] 877-777-5914
www.psp-peugeot-usa.com
CHEF SPECIALTIES COMPANY
Beer Bottle Mill
[tel] 800-440-2433
www.chefspecialties.com
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