15-561: Helen of Troy Limited is an American publicly traded designer, developer and worldwide marketer of consumer brand-name housewares, health and home, and beauty products under owned and licensed brands. It is the parent corporation of OXO International Ltd., Kaz , Inc., Steel Technology, LLC, and Idelle Labs, Ltd, among others. The company is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda , with U.S. operations headquartered in El Paso, Texas . The company
30-896: A continuing operations basis, as reported). As of February 28, 2018, the company employed approximately 1,489 full-time employees worldwide. The company's US headquarters and Shared Services Center is in a unique northwest El Paso building, and the company has three distribution facilities in Olive Branch, Mississippi , Southaven, Mississippi , and Arlington, Tennessee . The company also has offices in Marlborough, Massachusetts ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Cortez, Colorado ; Bend, Oregon ; New York City ; Mexico City ; Toronto ; Sheffield ; Bussigny-près-Lausanne ; Macau ; Shenzhen ; and Hong Kong . The company contracts with unaffiliated manufacturers, primarily in China and Mexico, to manufacture
45-1102: A significant portion of its finished goods for the Beauty appliances and accessories, Housewares, Healthcare, Water Filtration, and Home Environment product categories. The North American region of the grooming, skin and hair care category of the Beauty segment source most of their products from U.S. manufacturers. For fiscal years 2018, 2017, and 2016, finished goods manufactured by vendors in the Asia comprised approximately 74%, 71%, and 70%, respectively, of total finished goods purchased. Helen of Troy Limited, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, imports, markets, and distributes brand-name products in three reportable business segments: Health & Home, Housewares, and Beauty. The Health and Home segment offers healthcare and home comfort products including thermometers, blood pressure monitors and humidifiers, faucet mount water filtration systems and pitcher-based water filtration systems, air purifiers, heaters, fans, humidifiers and dehumidifiers under
60-463: Is a division of Helen of Troy Limited that produces Pur Water products. Pur's products include water filter faucet mounts, pitchers, side taps, dispensers, coolers, and filtration systems for Kenmore refrigerators of Sears Holdings Corporation . The Pur brand was created and products invented by Minneapolis -Based Recovery Engineering, Inc., which was sold to Procter & Gamble in 1999 for approximately US$ 213 million. Outdoor products under
75-552: Is named after the mythic figure Helen of Troy . Helen of Troy Limited began as a wig store in Downtown El Paso in 1968 and expanded into the hair appliance business in 1975 by supplying hair salons with hair dryers and curling irons. In 1980, the son of the company's founder Louis Rubin, Jerry Rubin, entered into a successful licensing agreement with Vidal Sassoon . Since then, the company's growth has come through years of acquiring rights to use well-known global brands in
90-715: The OXO , Good Grips , Hydro Flask , Soft Works, and OXO tot brands. The Beauty segment offers hair care appliances (both retail and professional), grooming brushes, tools and decorative hair accessories, liquid hair styling, treatment and conditioning products under the Hot Tools and Drybar brands. OXO (kitchen utensils brand) OXO ( / ˈ ɒ k s oʊ / OKS -oh ) is an American manufacturer of kitchen utensils, office supplies, and housewares , founded in 1990 and based in New York City . OXO products are made in
105-468: The PUR , Honeywell , Braun , and Vicks brands. The Housewares segment offers food and beverage preparation tools and gadgets, storage containers and organization products, household cleaning products, shower organization and bathroom accessories, feeding and drinking products, child seating, cleaning tools and nursery accessories, insulated water bottles, jugs, drinkware, travel mugs and food containers under
120-413: The "Helen of Troy Rules." In June 2004, the company paid $ 273.2 million for OXO International, a New York designer and maker of household tools. In January 2011, the company announced it has completed the acquisition of Kaz, Inc. for $ 271.5 million. Kaz provides consumer products serving health care and home environment needs including body thermometers, humidifiers, fans, and other products primarily under
135-593: The Gourmet Products Show in San Francisco , in 1990. Sam Farber sold OXO to General Housewares Corporation in 1992. General Housewares Corporation was acquired by World Kitchen LLC. in 2000. In June 2004, Helen of Troy Limited bought OXO housewares for $ 273.2 million. This United States manufacturing company–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pur (brand) Pur (styled PŪR ; pronounced as "pure")
150-654: The Pur brand were sold to Katadyn USA, and the Minneapolis manufacturing plant for all Pur products was closed in 2004. P&G sold Pur to Helen of Troy in January 2012 for an undisclosed amount. P&G maintained ownership of the products sold in various countries as a form of humanitarian aid under the Children's Safe Drinking Water program. These no longer use the Pur brand name. This product or company article
165-597: The USA and China. They provide a non-stick pro-Bakeware line that is completely made in the US. Some OXO products come with a " made in China " tag. OXO was founded by Sam Farber , an entrepreneur in the housewares industry, and his son, John Farber. Sam Farber chose the name "OXO" as an ambigram that renders the three letters in "OXO" the same regardless of their orientation, either horizontal or vertically. Noticing that his wife, Betsy, who suffered from mild arthritis in her hands,
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#1732797167678180-750: The company acquired Steel Technology, LLC, which does business under the brand name Hydro Flask , for approximately $ 210 million in cash, subject to certain customary closing adjustments. In December 2021, the company bought Osprey Packs, Inc for $ 414 Million. Since that time, the company has grown organically and through acquisition and operates in three reportable business segments. The company divested its former Nutritional Supplements business in December 2017. By order of sales contribution, these are Health & Home, Housewares, and Beauty. Helen of Troy's sales were $ 1.49 billion in Fiscal Year 2018 (on
195-433: The health and home, housewares, beauty and nutritional supplements categories, or by acquiring brands and companies outright. Those transactions have made Helen of Troy a force in the personal-care products market. The company underwent a notable tax inversion when it reorganized into a Bermuda company in 1993. This inversion prompted new federal legislation tightening the rules on inversion, which are colloquially known as
210-612: The licensed brands Vicks, Braun and Honeywell, as well as products under owned brands like Stinger, Softheat, and Kaz. In January 2012, Kaz acquired the PUR water purification products business from The Procter & Gamble Company. In 2014, the company implemented its succession plan, with Jerry Rubin stepping down as CEO, and the appointment of Julien R. Mininberg as chief executive officer, effective March 1, 2014. Mr. Mininberg had served as chief executive officer and president of Helen of Troy's Healthcare/Home Environment segment. In March 2016,
225-475: Was having difficulty gripping ordinary kitchen tools, he saw an opportunity to create more comfortable cooking tools that would benefit users. He worked with the design firm Smart Design to create the initial products in the line, including the Swivel Peeler, and Oxo continued to collaborate with Smart for many years. The first group of 15 OXO Good Grips kitchen tools were introduced to the U.S. market at
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