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FROM THE EDITOR KITCHENWARE NEWS & HOUSEWARES REVIEW n JANUARY 2018 n www.kitchenwarenews.com Periodicals postage paid at Tucson, AZ and additional mailing office. Kitchenware News & Housewares Review (USPS012-625) is published 12 times per year (Jan., Feb., March, April, May, June, July, Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec.) by Oser Communications Group, 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ, 85715 520.721.1300. Publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material or prices quoted in newspaper. Contributors are responsible for proper release of proprietary classified information. ©2017 by Oser Communications Group. All rightsreserved Reproduction, in whole or in part, without written permission of the publisher, is expressly prohibited. Back issues, when available, cost $8 each within the past 12 months. Back issue orders must be paid in advance by check. Kitchenware News & Housewares Review is distributed without charge in North America to qualified professionals in the retail and distribution channels of the upscale kitchenware and tabletop trade. For subscriber services, including subscription information, call 520.721.1300. Printed in the USA. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Kitchenware News & Housewares Review, 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ 85715. PUBLISHER Kimberly Oser SR. ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Jules Denton-Card jules_d@oser.com EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Lorrie Baumann lorrie_b@oser.com EDITOR Micah Cheek micah_c@oser.com SR. ASSOCIATE EDITOR Robin Mather ASSOCIATE EDITOR Greg Gonzales greg_g@oser.com ART DIRECTOR Yasmine Brown GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jonathan Schieffer CUSTOMER SERVICE Caitlyn McGrath MANAGERS caitlyn_m@oser.com Sarah Glenn sarah_g@oser.com CIRCULATION DIRECTOR Tara Neal CIRCULATION MANAGER Jamie Green jamie_g@oser.com Kitchenware News & Housewares Review is a publication of Oser Communications Group Inc. 1877 N. Kolb Road • Tucson, AZ 85715 520.721.1300 www.kitchenwarenews.com www.oser.com FOUNDER Lee M. Oser OSER COMMUNICATIONS GROUP editor from the Greetings and welcome to the January issues of Gourmet News and Kitchenware News! In these issues, we hope you'll notice that we're making a few changes while staying true to what our readers enjoy about Gourmet News and Kitchenware News. First: Kitchenware News, where the changes are easier to see. We've eliminated our Small Electrics department this year in recognition of the reality that market changes have prompted many specialty kitchenware shops to devote less shelf space to their selections of small appliances. Instead, we're putting more emphasis on the trends in the food industry that are driving your customers to your stores. We want you to have the industry experts' point of view on the questions that are on your customers' minds, so that you can decide how you'll respond to them, both as you provide customer service on your sales floor and as you make your merchandising decisions in your offices. For Gourmet News, you might notice that over the course of this year, we'll be taking a bit more of a themed approach to the overall issues. You will already have noticed that Gourmet News has gradually moved in the direction of a greater recognition that eating is an agricultural act and that we are all dependent for our food supply on our farmers and the same Mother Nature that rules their days. As a society, we've grown more aware of the power of the purse and public opinion, and we're using that power to make greater demands on our farmers to produce the kind of food that we want to eat. In general, that means that we're no longer satisfied with mere calories. Nor are we as inclined as we once were to assign cachet to our food based simply on its country of origin or its price tag. Now we assign value to our food based on what we can know about where it came f rom and how it was made and the apparent motives of the people who stand behind it. That all means that everyone in the supply chain has a greater responsibility for communicating all that information to our consumers, and we like to think that Gourmet News is an important link for that communication. So what you'll probably actually notice about Gourmet News this year is that we're taking a further journey along the path we've already been traveling, and we hope that you'll continue to honor us with your approval for that. Finally, there's one more change that I'd like to note: I recently attended the South Carolina wedding of our Senior Associate Publisher, Jules Denton, to Mr. Jonathan Card. All of us here offer our sincere congratulations to the couple, and our wholehearted wishes that they'll have a long and happy life together. And being just back f rom South Carolina, it feels entirely natural to say to them on this occasion, "Mazel tov, y'all.". KN Lorrie Baumann, Editorial Director 4 KITCHENWARE NEWS & Housewares Review