HearthDistribution.com featured its new pizza oven/outdoor-cooking center (www.hearthdistribu tion.com/product/SNH-OCC.html), along with a sampling of its flavored cooking pellets, at the HPBA Pacific Dealer Round-Up, held May 4–6 in Folsom, California. The company also displayed its wide variety of outdoor firepit burners, log sets, and hearth pads.

The demand for grills and firepits offered by HearthDistribution.com has thrust the company into the need to show the products to dealers all over the country. With its just-in-time philosophy, HearthDistribution.com appeals to dealers seeking financial rewards through cost-effective purchasing.

Company executives are reviewing existing product lines to determine which new products…

The World Food Championships and Bull Outdoor® Products announced recently that the Bull Burger Battles have been fired up for a third season in 2015. Bull Burger Battles are a nationwide series of live-event burger cookoffs held to find the best burger cooks and chefs across the country. The champions of this year’s five Burger Battles will be invited to compete (as part of Team Bull) at the World Food Championships in Kissimmee, Florida.

The Bull Burger Battles series started in 2013, with battles taking place in San Diego, California; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Chicago, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma…

C.R. Plastic Products Inc. recently purchased a new 300,000–square-foot manufacturing facility and corporate headquarters in Stratford, Ontario. For the past 21 years, C.R. Plastic Products has been designing and manufacturing premiumquality casual furniture from postconsumer recycled plastic. What started as a small flea-market business has grown into a global enterprise, with product distribution on nearly every continent. Jamie Bailey, founder and president, says, “We are ecstatic that our product quality, customer service, and environmental mission have resonated so strongly with our customers from all over the globe. We are expanding not only our operations, but also our presence as a…

Phifer has expanded its current stock line of indoor/outdoor furniture fabrics to include an additional 30 luxurious, fashionable GeoBella®cushion and Phifertex®sling fabrics. Timeless or trendy, classic or contemporary, Phifer’s Designed Fabrics feature the style, performance, and quality required by discerning customers.

The new stock line includes styles in bold, rich, and fresh tones, as well as soothing neutrals that easily mix and match—for a host of color-coordinated options. The 2015–16 stock line is also influenced by the need for cleaner lines, larger scales, and strong pattern elements. This mix of ideas and colors helps make it easy to create…

The casual/outdoor section of Las Vegas Market will be unveiled on August 2–6, 2015, on two new floors in Building C of the Las Vegas Market campus. As the fastest-growing segments in the home-furnishings category, outdoor furniture and accessories now have a new exhibit home in this biannual show.

Launched as a furniture market almost 10 years ago, Las Vegas Market is quickly becoming the most comprehensive furniture, home-decor, and gift market in the United States, providing a onestop shopping experience for a broad base of retailers and interior designers. Encompassing 250,000 square feet of fully built-out contiguous space,…

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – Looftlighter is offering a buy nine, get one free special for Father’s Day. The offer is valid until June 21, 2015. To order, contact a local distributor or sales rep, or write to: order@looftlighter.com.

The first step toward the Looftlighter was taken in 1997 when Richard Looft barbecued a whole chicken while having people over for dinner. When it was finally done, the chicken only tasted of lighter fluid which resulted in anger and a phone call to the nearest pizza place.

He knew he could come up with a better way to light a…

VACAVILLE, CA - M&G DuraVent is making a push for Ventinox Rigid in the marketplace. The Ventinox family has been expanded to offer rigid liner for use in existing or new masonry chimneys.

The rigid stainless steel liner is used to mend and improve masonry chimney liners that vent Category solid, liquid or gas-fuel (coal, wood, oil, etc) fired appliances.

Ideal for use when the clay liner of an existing chimney is damaged. Ventinox Rigid is available in 5” up to 8” diameters in 304-type stainless steel.

Ventinox features include:
• excellent resistance to corrosion;
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BOULDER, CO – Fruehauf’s Patio & Garden, featured in the July/August 2007 edition of Patio & Hearth Products Report, and based in Boulder, Colo, issued the following statement on behalf of Mary Fruehauf.

Dear Friends of Fruehauf’s,
It is with great sadness with which we inform you that Mary Fruehauf has passed away due to a long battle with cancer. Mary was a very hardworking, dedicated, and passionate person.