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Bauscher and Tafelstern have a series of new catalogs for the American market. Do you have yours yet?
Impressive with the products and how they are presented......these great new informational tools reflect the quality....the heritage....and the culinary DNA of these legendary German brands. Get yours today and see for your self by going here: According to StockMarketWire.com, Churchill China posts pre-tax profits of £0.8m for the six months to the end of June - 22% up on last time.
Group revenues were stable at £19.2m and basic earnings per share rose 25% to 5.9p and the interim dividend is maintained at 4.8p per share. Chairman Jonathan Sparey said: "Churchill China has delivered a healthy set of results in the first half of 2012 despite anaemic economic conditions in all of its major geographical markets. We do not anticipate any improvement in these macro-economic conditions in the second half but are confident of continued measured progress based on the robustness of our business model." The Toledo Blade newspaper has reported that glassware and tableware maker Libbey Inc., a fixture in Toledo for nearly 125 years, announced Tuesday that it has signed a new lease to remain in the city for an additional 15 years at its Toledo Edison Plaza headquarters at 300 Madison Ave.
At a recent announcement in the downtown building's lobby, Chief Executive Officer Stephanie Streeter said the company headquarters will stay put despite offers from other cities and states. Libbey is being aided by $1.2 million in grants from the state of Ohio and a tax abatement from the city of Toledo. The company plans to use the $1 million grant to renovate its office space so that it will need just two floors and half of a third. "The configuration of our offices will change dramatically," Ms. Streeter said. "We're going from a very traditional office-centric design to one that's very open, collaborative, and contemporary that I think our employees will really enjoy." The new configuration will promote better employee communications, she added. "It will be a very open environment, with very few conference rooms, not many offices, and a lot of light," Ms. Streeter said. "The whole idea is collaboration, the sharing of ideas, innovation, and that kind of environment." You can read the entire article by going here: http://www.toledoblade.com/business/2012/08/28/Libbey-Inc-to-stay-in-Toledo.html To learn more about Libbey and its foodservice products, go here: http://foodservice.libbey.com/
Seth Godin We're all looking for someone to trust. People and institutions that will do what they say and say what they mean. Banks used to use marble pillars and armed guards to make it clear that our money was safe. Doctors put diplomas on the wall and wear white smocks. Institutions and relationships don't work without trust. It's not an accident that a gold standard in business is being able to do business on a handshake. Today, though, it's easier than ever to build a facade of trust but not actually deliver. "Read the fine print," the financial institutions, cruise ship operators and business partners tell us after they've failed to honor what we thought they promised. It's incredibily difficult to build a civil society on the back of "read the fine print." Emptor fidem works so much better than caveat emptor. When we have to spend all our time watching our back and working with lawyers, it's far more challenging to get anything done--and it makes building a business and a brand infinitely more difficult. The question that needs to be asked by the marketer is, "are we doing this to create the appearance of trust, or is this actually something trustworthy, something we're proud to do?" Building trust is expensive. You can call it an expense or an investment, or merely cut corners and work on trustiness instead. Trust is built when no one is looking, when you think you have the option of cutting corners and when you find a loophole. Trustiness is what happens when you use trust as a PR tool. The difference should be obvious. Trust experienced is remarkable, trustiness once discovered leaves a bad taste for even your most valued customers. The perverse irony is this: the more you work on your trustiness, the harder you fall once people discover that they were tricked. (With a hat tip to Colbert) Learn more from Seth Godin at: http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/ Tabletop as art..... illy's latest cup continues it's creative ways. As TabletopJournal continues to say...."thoughtful" tabletop design does not necessarily mean complex...or expensive.
The illy Art Collection designed by Daniel Buren for Monumenta 2012 – four espresso cups in limited edition – draws on a visual pattern chosen by the artist in 1965 and which subsequently became his signature: alternating white and colored stripes (8.7 centimeters wide), inspired by the pattern of a type of drapery that was very popular at the time, and commonly used on awnings, deckchairs and pillows. The artist employs this “outil visuel” (visual tool) to redefine space and force the viewer to establish a new relationship with disparate places, monuments or objects and thereby changing the perception of reality. Today Buren's “visual tool” decorates four black espresso cups with their increasingly wide saucers, akin to a tale being slowly unveiled, first revealing the white and then, with a twist, the green, yellow, red, and blue. The colors are "hidden" underneath the saucers themselves and re-draw both the single object and the whole composition. To learn more about illy's Art Collection and it's Daniel Buren designs, go here: http://www.illy.com/wps/wcm/connect/en/art/the-latest-cup THE AGE FROM MELBOURNE GOOD FOOD GUIDE WINNERS
CHEF OF THE YEAR Michael Ryan, Provenance RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR Vue de Monde BEST NEW RESTAURANT Pei Modern REGIONAL RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR Provenance (Beechworth) BEST NEW REGIONAL RESTAURANT Gladioli (Inverleigh) THE AGE YOUNG CHEF OF THE YEAR Mark Briggs, Sharing House WINE LIST OF THE YEAR Coda BEST SHORT WINE LIST Casa Ciuccio REGIONAL WINE LIST OF THE YEAR Ten Minutes By Tractor (Main Ridge) SOMMELIER OF THE YEAR Travis Howe, Coda SERVICE EXCELLENCE AWARD Ainslie Lubbock, Pei Modern LEGEND AWARD Alla Wolf-Tasker THREE-HAT RESTAURANTS Attica, Jacques Reymond, Vue de Monde and Royal Mail Hotel Congratulations to all the winners! To read the entire article go here: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/and-the-winner-is--20120827-24wao.html#ixzz24kDRpNXH TabletopJournal has written before about the creative ways of the Glass Studio designers & artisans and the custom showplates done St. Regis Saaidyat Island are another fine example. Banquet service is often associated with elegant dining setting, tasteful food presentation and bespoke service. When it comes to banqueting in a luxury hotel setting, the stakes are high in the aim to create a truly extraordinary and memorable experiences. Tabletop design plays the key role in creating that special, festive mood, and thoughtfully designed tableware truly comes to light. In this post we share with you our custom dinnerware designs for the banqueting service at the St. Regis Saaidyat Island hotel.
The show plates design features a soft geometric pattern that mimics the elegant motive on the ceilings. Show plates feature a combination of clear glass with gold rim and gold pattern that compliment the yellow/beige color scheme of the tabletop design. At the center of the design is the St. Regis signature logo, which helps create a memorable connection between the banqueting occasion and the bespoke experience provided by the hotel. To learn more aobut Glass Studio and their creative ways, go here: http://www.the-glass-co.com/
A company that doesn’t often get included in the mix when discussing tabletop companies is Bon Chef. However, since 1972, Bon Chef has been upgrading the art of food presentation with tabletop items such as melamine platters, glass square and oval serving platters, metal bakers and servers, and even cutlery/flatware.
With a catalog of over 400 pages, they is something for everyone in the current Bon Chef catalog. You can get your own copy of their catalog and see the entire lineup of Bon Chef tabletop products by going here: http://www.bonchef.com/ Two of tabletop's heavy hitters - RAK Porcelain and Libbey - teamed up to create a "mix & match" brochure that is targeted at the catering segment for the European markets. "Putting Libbey's extensive glass together with RAK's creative line of porcelain simply made so much sense," says RAK Marketing Manager Bertrand Lecante. "It shows the opportunities to utilize RAK Porcelain's serving pieces in even more creative ways."
RAK products and innovations are perfectly suited to the hospitality market and have proven their extremely high level of technical, functional, and economic performance in a record-breaking time. Libbey offers a diverse range of glassware that is ideally suited for the demanding foodservice operator. They offer a large selection of glassware for hotels, caterers, and restaurateurs worldwide. You can view the entire range of RAK Porcelain products for the hospitality industry by going here:
http://www.rakporcelain.eu/ You can see the Libbey lineup of foodservice products by going here: http://foodservice.libbey.com/ |
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