In 2010 she partnered with housewares company Ink Dish to release a line of porcelain dinnerware.

To the rescue comes Bodum, the Danish housewares company, with its Ceylon tea jug.

The funds had especially heavy losses on Sunbeam, the housewares company.

Still, most analysts had expected that the Newell Company, Rubbermaid or another housewares company would be the likely buyers.

After three years, he was recruited by Hammerplast, a Swedish housewares company that had Starbucks as a client.

At the closing bell, with the Dow industrials down 125 points, he put $300,000 of client cash into a consumer product and housewares company.

"It was like Pompeii," said Cedric Koloseus, who moved his housewares company into a building in the graveyard last year.

In 1932, he and his brother-in-law started a small housewares company.

MANY textiles and housewares companies now produce avant-garde products, but some have been doing so for years - in fact, for centuries.

IT took Bodum, the housewares company, until 2003 to begin to recover from 9/11.