We were not physically at the Houston Quilt Festival but we were there in spirit and with our Velocity irons supporting the One Million Pillowcase Challenge booth put together by American Patchwork & Quilting. Volunteers made 1,027 pillowcases to donate to Houston Children’s Charity! Way to go everyone! If you haven’t already done so, now is a good time to pull together a local group of sewing friends to make some pillowcases for the holidays. Donate them to a local charity and put a smile of comfort on someone’s face. Be sure to record how many you make on the One Million Pillowcase Challenge website to help reach the goal. http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases/
Happy Thanksgiving! 
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Kimberly Calder on
February 8, 2011 | Posted in
New Products, New and Exciting, Steam Cleaning, Trade Shows and What People Think of Us |
Tags: Chemical-Free Cleaning, Houseware Show, Houswares, IHA, International Home & Housewares Show 2011, Steam Cleaner, Trade Shows.
Our EnviroMate TANDEM was selected by the International Housewares Association (IHA) reviewers to be included in the Design Directions: Going Green display at the upcoming International Home & Housewares Show 2011! This display will be located in the Lakeside Center lobby (a highly visible and high traffic area at the show). There will be approximately 60 examples of products and packaging from exhibitors (there are over 2000 exhibitors) featured as a snapshot of exhibitors’ sustainability efforts.
This display is meant to give buyers and media a “greener” view at the Show.
The EnviroMate TANDEM will be included in a brochure that will list participants by company and booth number. This brochure will be distributed at the display and in the News Center to help buyers and media find the Show’s sustainable products.
About the IHA Show:
The International Home & Housewares Show is the world’s premier housewares marketplace, features more than 2,000 exhibitors from 34 countries, and more than 20,000 buyers from over 100 countries around the world. The 2011 show is in Chicago at McCormick Place March 6-8.
EnviroMate TANDEM Chosen by IHA
Reliable team at our first ISSA Show
So much hand sanitizer to test, so little time…We’re back in Toronto after 4 days in Orlando at the ISSA (International Sanitation and Supply Association) Interclean Trade Show. This was our first foray into the realm of janitorial and sanitation supply. Our EnviroMate PRO certainly held it’s own and some in the green cleaning category. Steam cleaning was a hot topic and we were in the thick of the action. Great show! Wonderful to meet so many new people too. Special thanks to John Hayes from Enviro-Solutions for sending us the group shot!
On the topic of CLEAN: here’s a link to an interesting article about germ hotspots in the home from yourhome.ca.
It’s pack up your bags time for us again, this time to one of our favorite cities… Chicago.
The show this year will be a first for us on a few fronts. Number one, we are finally moving our booth to a brand new space in Lakeside (yes! away from the wall). We’ve doubled our space from previous years; we now have a full 600 square feet of space to fill. We’ve also built a brand new booth that is really magnificent. It’s been six months in the making. Can’t wait to see it on Saturday when we arrive.
Number two, we are launching five of our six new products for 2010 at the show. While they still need to be under wraps for a little while longer, I can tell you that there’s a lot of excitement here about these new projects, and we are thrilled to be showing them for the first time in Chicago.
As always, we look forward to seeing old friends at the show, and making new ones. Plus, we get to sample some of Chicago’s finest cuisine.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Hardware Show 2009
It’s 4º C in Toronto this morning, so the thought that I’ll be in a desert in less than two weeks is a very warming thought.
It will be interesting to see what kind of turnout we get at the National Hardware Show 2009. In spite of assurances from the Houseware Association, attendance was clearly down from last year. There’s a slight feeling of recovery that is in the air, so I remain hopeful that Hardware 2009 will be well attended.
If you are planning on coming to the show, I hope you will drop by our booth. We will be demonstrating the new Digital Velocity V100 compact vapor generator iron, and the new Enviromate E3 and E5 steam cleaners. We’ll also have the latest IronMaven J420 ironing station on display. Lot’s of new stuff. Look forward to seeing you there.
I’m pleased to say, that we’ve survived yet another Housewares show. The much publicized event was definitely slower this year in terms of overall attendance, but we kept ourselves busy, particularly on day 1 and day 2. Day 3 was a different story. I guess many companies decided to save on the extra nights stay and brought their staff home early.
It’s always a very stressful week, getting the final touches to the booth ready, preparing promotional material, and making sure all of the last minute details have been looked after. After this years show I am more determined then ever to hire a company to do our booth set up and tear down. It’s not that we do so many shows any longer (we don’t), but it’s a very long week as it is, without having to deal with the booth itself. I’ll try to remember this for next year (note to self, remember this).
We did get a chance at the show to say hello to many of our new reps that have come along with Dave at NRPP. A special hello and thank you to the reps that spent time with us, learning about the products and getting to know who we are.
The response from our customers and reps for our new products was very rewarding. We’ve spent a great deal of time on these new items, and I was delighted by the positive feedback.
And of course a special thank you to Alice, Art and Martha for all of their help during the week. We’ve got quite a team here, and they stepped up to the plate like they always do.
Chicago was as schizophrenic as it usually is. One day hot, one day freezing windy cold. You’d never know there was a recession by the line-ups at the restaurants in Chicago. One hour minimum. But the wait is always worthwhile, and our normal spots didn’t disappoint. Can’t wait to do it all over again next year.
It’s official. We’ve got four weeks to go, and we’re off to Chicago for the 2009 Housewares show.
Chicago is one of my favorite places to visit. Whenever we’re there, the first restaurant on our list is always Cafe Iberico. I guess it’s the favorite of a few others as well, as it ’s always packed solid with hungry tapas fans.
On the show front, we’ve got a few surprises this year with some great new products and a brand spanking new booth. As always, you can find us in the Lakeside Building, booth L11033.
Please make sure you come by to say hello. And if you’ve got some favorite Chicago restaurant spots of your own, I’m sure the foodies that are reading this would like to hear your choices. in our comments section. See you in Chicago.
