Kitchen & Cookware

Kitchen & Cookware · Glass Bakeware

American glass bakeware built on Corning borosilicate science. US Pyrex is now tempered soda-lime glass; European PYREX (a different company) is still borosilicate.

Anchor Hocking (Centre Lane Partners) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Dinnerware & Tabletop

Laminated tempered glass dinnerware, a genuine Corning invention. Still made in Corning NY.

Anchor Hocking (Centre Lane Partners) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Glass Bakeware

Originally pyroceram glass-ceramic that went from freezer to stovetop. Pyroceram production ended around 2001; most US CorningWare today is glazed stoneware that cannot touch a burner.

Anchor Hocking (Centre Lane Partners) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Small Appliances

Viral multicooker that carried a $615M merger, a $345M dividend, and a bankruptcy on its back within four years.

Centre Lane Partners →

Kitchen & Cookware · Glassware

Lancaster Ohio glassmaker, one of the last two American glass tableware plants. The subject of Brian Alexander's Glass House.

Anchor Hocking Holdings (Centre Lane Partners) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Glassware

Toledo glassware institution, the standard-issue American drinking glass for a century.

Former lenders (post Chapter 11) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Dinnerware & Tabletop

American fine china since 1889, maker of White House services. Now an import and distribution company.

Centre Lane Partners →

Kitchen & Cookware · Flatware

The name that meant American flatware for a century.

Lenox (Centre Lane Partners) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Stainless

Copper-bottom stainless that equipped postwar America.

Corelle Brands (Centre Lane Partners) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Knives

Midwestern working knives, once made in Wauconda Illinois.

Corelle Brands (Centre Lane Partners) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Tools & Gadgets

Bronx-made cookware for 96 years. Now a name rented out by product category.

Farberware Licensing Group (Meyer + Lifetime Brands) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Nonstick & Aluminum

Toledo company that invented hard-anodized aluminum cookware.

Newell Brands →

Kitchen & Cookware · Small Appliances

Brought the food processor to America.

American Securities (Conair) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Clad Stainless

Canonsburg PA bonded cookware, the American clad standard.

Groupe SEB →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Stainless

The German stainless institution.

Groupe SEB →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

The carbon steel pan everyone recommends as the honest alternative.

Groupe SEB →

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Knives

A Thiers knife name from the early 1800s that was never one trademark.

Multiple (US license: Lifetime Brands) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Dinnerware & Tabletop

Design-house dinnerware, always an import brand.

Lifetime Brands →

Kitchen & Cookware · Dinnerware & Tabletop

Pennsylvania stoneware made in York County since the 1800s.

Lifetime Brands →

Kitchen & Cookware · Dinnerware & Tabletop

Irish crystal, or it was.

Fiskars →

Kitchen & Cookware · Dinnerware & Tabletop

Josiah Wedgwood's pottery, the founding brand of English ceramics.

Fiskars →

Kitchen & Cookware · Food Storage

The food storage brand that invented the category and the party.

Party Products LLC (Stonehill Capital, Alden Global) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Drinkware

The hundred-year thermos name behind the viral Quencher.

HAVI Group (PMI Worldwide) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Retailer

The specialty cookware retailer that survived, barely.

Marquee Brands + CSC Generation →

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Knives

The single-figure logo, not the twins.

Werhahn KG (Zwilling) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Nonstick & Aluminum

Laser-etched hybrid pans sold on celebrity and fear marketing.

Founders + Studio Ramsay Global →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Nonstick & Aluminum

Pastel ceramic-coated aluminum sold on non-toxic anxiety.

McCarthy Capital et al →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Nonstick & Aluminum

The Always Pan, an eight-in-one social media object.

Dreamers VC, Marcy Venture Partners et al →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Nonstick & Aluminum

The original healthy-ceramic nonstick brand.

Waterland Private Equity →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Clad Stainless

Kickstarter kitchenware, nine campaigns and $14M from 131,000 backers.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Nonstick & Aluminum

Millennial dutch ovens with a media-darling launch.

Meyer Corporation →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

Smooth-finish heirloom cast iron from Maryland.

YETI Holdings →

Kitchen & Cookware · Commercial & Foodservice

Restaurant-supply staple gear on every commercial shelf.

CFS Brands (The Jordan Company) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

Cast iron from South Pittsburg Tennessee, five generations deep.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

Enameled cast iron from Fresnoy-le-Grand since 1925.

Paul van Zuydam →

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Knives

Solingen forged knives under one of the oldest trademarks in the world.

Werhahn KG →

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Knives

Solingen forged knives, seventh-generation family.

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Knives

American-made knives from Olean New York, sold in the most annoying way possible.

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Knives

The oldest US cutlery maker, still cutting steel in Massachusetts.

LongCap (Longmeadow Capital) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Knives

The knife in every American commercial kitchen, made in Southbridge Massachusetts since 1818.

Affinity Group (Hardy family) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Commercial & Foodservice

Sheboygan stainless, the backbone of American commercial kitchens for 150 years.

Windway Capital →

Kitchen & Cookware · Commercial & Foodservice

The Cambro container, food service plastic that never dies.

Kitchen & Cookware · Small Appliances

The blender that gets willed to grandchildren.

Kitchen & Cookware · Bakeware

The Bundt pan people, Minneapolis, three generations of Dalquists.

Kitchen & Cookware · Bakeware

Consumer bakeware from the world's largest commercial bakery-pan maker.

Bundy Baking Solutions →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Clad Stainless

US-made clad stainless from Clarksville Tennessee, sold as Heritage Steel and Hammer Stahl.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Stainless

Wisconsin stainless cookware, fourth-generation Reigle family.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Stainless

German stainless and pressure cookers from Idar-Oberstein.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Clad Stainless

Belgian heavy-gauge stainless, the technical ceiling of the category.

Werhahn KG (Zwilling) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Copper

Copper cookware from Villedieu-les-Poêles, seven generations.

Kitchen & Cookware · Ceramics & Stoneware

Burgundy ceramic bakeware, six generations of the Henry family.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Nonstick & Aluminum

Danish cast-aluminum nonstick, made in Ryomgaard.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Stainless

The best value-per-dollar cookware on most shelves.

Kitchen & Cookware · Boards & Wood

Butcher blocks and boards from Effingham Illinois since the 1880s.

Kitchen & Cookware · Boards & Wood

Composite cutting boards from the TrueRide skatepark founders.

Kitchen & Cookware · Flatware

The only flatware made in America, from the factory Oneida walked away from.

Sherrill Manufacturing →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

Lightweight vintage-style cast iron, US foundries.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

Machined-smooth cast iron from Allentown Pennsylvania.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

Michigan cast iron, family-run.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Clad Stainless

The DTC brand with actual factories behind it.

Kitchen & Cookware · Small Appliances

Rice cookers and vacuum flasks engineered like heirlooms.

Founder family (Ichikawa) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Pressure Canners

The only metal-to-metal-seal pressure canner in the world, cast in Manitowoc since 1930.

Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Enamelware

Austrian enamelware, ninth generation, made with the factory's own hydropower.

Kitchen & Cookware · Dinnerware & Tabletop

Fiestaware, made in Newell West Virginia since 1936, by the company formerly known as Homer Laughlin.

Wells family →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

Precision enameled cast iron from a Nagoya family foundry.

Aichi Dobby →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

Lightweight pans, US-cast and finished in Conestoga Pennsylvania.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

Cast iron poured in-house from 100 percent recycled iron in Owego New York.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

Shropshire spun-iron cookware, self-funded family firm.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

Hand-forged German iron pans since 1857.

Kitchen & Cookware · Pressure Cookers

Swiss pressure cookers from Rikon since 1926.

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Knives

Ohio kitchen knives, hand-finished by the same family since 1902.

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Knives

Forged carbon steel kitchen knives, made start to finish in Portland.

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Knives

Colorful high-performance knives from a self-funded Wyoming maker.

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Tools & Gadgets

The world-standard Japanese mandoline.

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Tools & Gadgets

The rasp grater that redefined the category, photo-etched in Arkansas.

Grace Stakeholder Investments (ESOP) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Tools & Gadgets

The Thermapen company, the thermometer every serious cook ends up buying.

Kitchen & Cookware · Glassware

Pressed glass from Cambridge Ohio, the last US factory of its kind.

Kitchen & Cookware · Ceramics & Stoneware

Midcentury California dinnerware, still made in Sausalito.

Bailey/Petravic →

Kitchen & Cookware · Ceramics & Stoneware

Crocks and fermentation ware from Zanesville, one of the last US commercial potteries.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Copper

The only US heavy-gauge copper cookware maker.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

Hand-forged carbon steel from a two-person Seattle studio.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware - Cast Iron & Carbon Steel

One-piece wrought iron pans from Australia, with a US-made line.

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Tools & Gadgets

German stainless kitchen tools since 1888.

Kitchen & Cookware · Commercial & Foodservice

French commercial kitchenware, the professional standard for carbon steel and pastry gear.

Kitchen & Cookware · Ceramics & Stoneware

Asheville stoneware with a cult following and a venture cap table.

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Knives

Iowa-made budget knives sold through church and school fundraisers for 76 years.

St. Martin Holdings →

Kitchen & Cookware · Bakeware

Spokane-made pizza and bakeware pans, the pizzeria standard.

CFS Brands (The Jordan Company) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Food Storage

The German canning jar with the strawberry on it.

Aurelius Group →

Kitchen & Cookware · Commercial & Foodservice

Foodservice smallwares on every restaurant shelf.

PPC Partners (Pritzker Private Capital) →

Kitchen & Cookware · Kitchen Tools

Universal-design kitchen tools, gadgets, and food storage. The POP containers and the swivel peeler are the reference products. Mass-premium pricing, sold everywhere.

Helen of Troy →

Kitchen & Cookware · Drinkware

Insulated stainless bottles, tumblers, and coolers. Premium pricing in a category it created and no longer controls.

Helen of Troy →

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware

Polished cast iron and hand-forged carbon steel cookware in the pre-war style. Skillets, Dutch ovens, roasters.

Kitchen & Cookware · Cookware

Alsatian enameled cast iron. The cocotte is the flagship.

Zwilling J.A. Henckels (Werhahn KG) →