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Caraway Home sells the pan. The cupboard closes the deal.
A ceramic cookware brand found room between kitchen equipment and home decor. Its revealing invention may be the place it gives every pot when dinner is over.
The Kitchen Guy Who Turned Air Fryers Into a $5 Billion Franchise
Shae Hong bought a sleepy appliance manufacturer, wired it to celebrity culture and real-time retail data, and turned toasters and air fryers into a portfolio of top-selling brands.
The 130-Year-Old Foundry That Turned a Skillet Into a System
Lodge does not merely sell heavy pans. From two Tennessee foundries, it has built a loop of manufacturing, education, mass retail, collecting, and care that keeps a 19th-century material useful in a nonstick age.
Sur La Table
The 1972 Pike Place kitchen shop that turned selling whisks into teaching dinner - and survived a pandemic bankruptcy by betting the store on the class.
Lifetime Brands
The company behind Farberware gadgets, Mikasa plates and S’well bottles has spent decades turning the kitchen drawer into a portfolio business. Now its next act depends as much on logistics and tariffs as it does on taste.
Our Place
Our Place is a Los Angeles-based direct-to-consumer kitchenware brand founded in 2019 by Shiza Shahid, Amir Tehrani and Zach Rosner. It is best known for the Always Pan - a ceramic, PFAS-free multifunctional pan that replaces eight to ten pieces of traditional cookware and became one of the internet's first viral pieces of cookware. The company designs multifunctional, non-toxic, and design-forward cookware, bakeware, dinnerware and small appliances, and pairs its products with a mission of celebrating home cooking, cultural connection and social impact.
Material
Material is a New York-based direct-to-consumer kitchenware company building beautifully designed, non-toxic, and sustainably made cooking essentials that are meant to last a lifetime. Founded in 2017 by Eunice Byun and Dave Nguyen, the brand pairs minimalist design with thoughtful materials - Japanese steel knives, copper-core pans, and the reBoard cutting board made from recycled plastic scraps and sugarcane - to make everyday cooking simpler and more pleasurable.
Williams-Sonoma, Inc.
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is a San Francisco-based, vertically integrated specialty retailer of premium home furnishings and cookware. From a single 1956 cookware shop in Sonoma, California, it grew into a portfolio of in-house-designed brands - Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, West Elm, Williams Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation, Mark and Graham, and GreenRow - sold through e-commerce, catalogs, retail stores, and a growing B2B business. It is one of the largest digital-first home retailers in the United States, with roughly $7.7-7.9 billion in annual revenue.