BREA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Evriholder Products LLC, a leading provider of impulse products worldwide under the Evriholder and Joie brand names, today announced that it has acquired Progressive International, an industry-leading product innovator and marketer of kitchen tools, kitchen organization, and food storage products.
The acquisition provides Evriholder and Progressive with opportunities to cross-sell their product offerings domestically and internationally to their complementary customer bases.
“We are thrilled to partner with Progressive,” said Ivan Stein, Evriholder CEO. “They have an excellent reputation in the industry and are known for developing unique, innovative, and functional products backed by their best-in-class product development engine,” added Stein.
Both companies’ customers will have access to a broader range of state-of-the-art products and merchandising programs. They will also benefit from the robust supply chain capabilities of the combined company.
Progressive’s core strength of developing unique, everyday kitchen tools by focusing on the needs of end consumers will be enhanced as more resources will be allocated to product development.
Progressive President Lance Hood will join the Evriholder executive team and will be responsible for the growth of this division. “Progressive is super excited to provide customers with new high-quality products and programs offered by Evriholder and Joie,” said Hood. “This is a win/win for us as we will benefit from Evriholder’s 27-year history of impulse category leadership, their international customer base, and industry-leading, low-cost supply chain,” he added.
This partnership will further strengthen Evriholder’s and Progressive’s reputation as a strategic vendor to many nationwide and international retailers. “There are fantastic opportunities ahead of us with our customers and suppliers. Evriholder and Progressive remain fully focused on continuing to deliver outstanding customer service and sales growth that are the hallmarks of our companies,” Stein concluded.
ABOUT EVRIHOLDER PRODUCTS LLC
Evriholder Products LLC was established in Brea, California in 1995. It is an innovative company that specializes in a wide variety of household categories including kitchen, produce, baking, barware, bath and beauty, cleaning, pet, storage & organization, toy, seasonal, and more. Evriholder is an impulse industry leader and has innovative products in nearly all retail channels including specialty, mass merchants, supermarkets, drug stores, hardware stores, club, catalog, online, and more. The Company has a strong international foothold with markets in Europe, Australia, and Latin America.
To learn more, visit https://www.evriholder.com/, https://www.facebook.com/evriholderproducts and https://www.linkedin.com/company/evriholder-products-llc/.
ABOUT PROGRESSIVE INTERNATIONAL
Progressive is an innovative provider of kitchen gadgets and food storage based in Kent, WA. As a long-standing company, established in 1973, it has an excellent reputation in the industry for innovative, high-quality products that make consumers’ lives easier in the kitchen. The Company sells to department stores, specialty houseware chains, independent gourmet and cookware retailers, national and regional mass merchants, mail order companies, and online retailers.
To learn more, visit https://progressiveintl.com/, https://www.facebook.com/progressiveintl and https://www.linkedin.com/company/progressive-international/.