Lifetime Brands Inc.
Lifetime Brands Inc. (NASDAQ:LCUT) is one of the largest US tableware, home décor and kitchenware organisations in the world. The company has a globally recognised range of brands as well as a substantial private label programme.
The head office is based in New York and the company has two fantastic show rooms. Their flagship showroom, based in Garden City, NY, has over 40,000 square foot of kitchenware products on display whilst their Manhattan showroom, based on Madison Avenue showcases the extensive Mikasa® brand portfolio as well as many other fantastic brands.
Garden City Show Room
As well being a market leader in Kitchenware and Tableware, Lifetime Brands is renowned for its culture of innovation. The company invests heavily in advance design technologies and has an impressive design resource with four company-operated design centres with over 100+ professionals in the U.S and China, a resource that Creative Tops will be able to utilise. They are also in touch with a network of thousands of independent inventors.
Revolutionary Technology
Ideate ™ design technology is a revolutionary private label web application that reduces design and engineering time by 50% please click here for the youtube demo. Innovation is at the very core of Lifetime Brands business philosophy and they have an active programme called Ideas of Ideas of a Lifetime (tm) - which encourages all employees to recommend product ideas, process improvements and actions to increase net revenue or to save cost throughout the company.
Predicting Trends
Trend forecasting is a major part of Lifetime Brands’ product innovation process and they invest heavily in this area. Please click here to review Lifetime Brands latest trend forecast for 2011.
