Rubbermaid News Briefs

Rubbermaid Commercial Products Wins Grainger’s "Your Facility in Focus" Award

Rubbermaid Leadership Acknowledged.

Ontario, CA, August 22, 2005 - Rubbermaid Commercial Products was recognized by W. W. Grainger as having the best Your Facility in Focus (YFIF) presentation for the West Coast Regions. The presentation highlighted the considerable productivity benefits of Rubbermaid’s new products hitting the market in the 3rd and 4th quarters of 2005.

Receiving the YFIF award for Rubbermaid Commercial Products was Marc Serrano, Strategic Account Rep; territory managers Mike Dudleston and Kathleen Bolton were also present from RCP. The award that recognized RCP for their supplier presentation, was presented by Chris Garlieb, Grainger West Coast Regional Sales Vice President, who commented that "Rubbermaid has delivered a strong new products message to Grainger".

Rubbermaid Commercial Products - Winner of the Gold Award for 2005 Best New Product Design by IDSA and BusinessWeek

BusinessWeek Announces 2005 Winners of 2005 Industrial Design Excellence Awards

Dulles, VA. (June 24, 2005) - The winners of the 2005 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) competition, a celebration of the best and hottest product designs of the year, exhibit a new level of beauty, sustainability and craft. These were the dominant trends when the winners were announced in BusinessWeek’s July 4th issue. Winners may be viewed on the IDEA ’05 Winners Showcase www.idsa.org and www.businessweek.com.

Thirty-eight entries were awarded the coveted Gold award, 59 entries received Silver awards and 51 won Bronze awards. IDEA is co-sponsored by BusinessWeek and the Industrial Designers Society of America.

Rubbermaid Commercial Products brings home the Gold IDEA Award

Rubbermaid Commercial Products, the leader in Pedestrian Safety Products has won the IDSA Gold Award. Co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America and BusinessWeek, RCP’s Folding Safety Cone was recognized as one of the "best product designs of the year." According to Michael McCoy, IDSA, Partner McCoy & McCoy, Rubbermaid Commercial Product’s Folding Safety Cone is "...convenient to deploy and compact to store."

According to Rubbermaid Commercial Products’ Industrial Design Manager Reneau Van Landingham, "The Folding Safety Cone, designed by Owen Slater, is a business solution as well as a design success. Businesses can easily protect their employees and visitors from slips and falls, and help limit potential personal injury liability by having safety signs where they are most needed. The innovative, lightweight and collapsible signs are easy to position throughout any facility, enabling immediate caution notification at the point of hazards."

About IDEA, Industrial Designers & IDSA

The IDEA program fosters business and public understanding about the impact of industrial design excellence on the quality of life and the economy.

Industrial designers determine the form, use features and interaction qualities of manufactured products, packaging and digital media systems. They study people at work, at home and in motion to create satisfying experiences with products from the kitchen and the office to the hospital and the warehouse, shaping these to fit their customers and to make effective use of industrial processes. In this way, industrial designers have a quiet but profound presence in almost everything people encounter during the day.

IDSA is the nonprofit association that represents the profession of industrial design to education, business, government and the public and serves the profession’s needs for information and networking.

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