World Kitchen
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| LLC | |
| Industry | Kitchenware |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Rosemont, Illinois, U.S. |
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Key people
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Carl Warschausky, President and Chief Executive Officer |
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Number of employees
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3,000 (2013) |
| Website | www.worldkitchen.com |
World Kitchen, LLC is an American kitchenware products maker and distributor based in Rosemont, Illinois. The company began as the Corning Consumer Products division of glassmaker Corning.
The division was spun off from Corning in 1998 and purchased by Borden. It acquired General Housewares and Ekco in 1999.
As part of the sale to Borden, the company was required to shed the Corning name within three years. The World Kitchen name was adopted in 2000. In 2002 the company filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 and underwent financial reorganization.
As of 2004[update], it has been privately held. Since 2013, Carl Warschausky is President and CEO. The company's website states it employs approximately 3,000 people, and has major manufacturing and distribution operations in the United States, Canada, and Asia-Pacific regions.
World Kitchen products are typically sold by high-end retailers catering to upper class consumers in most of Asia. In China, its goods are sold at Mitsukoshi, Parkson, and Sogo outlets.
World Kitchen owns/licenses such brands as:
On June 1, 2004, WKI Holding Company, Inc., which operates principally through its subsidiary World Kitchen, Inc., announced that it had completed the sale of OXO International to Helen of Troy Limited for over $273 million in cash.
CorningWare and Visions by Corning was a glass cookware line introduced in 1982 and widely popular CorningWare and Visions was a vitroceramic (aluminosilicate glass) cookware line, with glass (Pyrex soda lime type) lids. Originally, they were in an amber color, when a cranberry color version came 10 years later in 1992. After World Kitchen acquired the brand in the late 1990s, and until its reintroduction in 2009, CorningWare and Visions products, were switched to ceramic stoneware production.
In 2009, CorningWare and Visions were reintroduced as vitroceramic (aluminosilicate glass) cookware for use over the stove by World Kitchens, making it available through their outlet stores and through the web.
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