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Four new directors have been elected to the board of directors of the International Housewares Association (IHA), the full-service trade association for the housewares industry.

The new directors are:

• Gregory C. Cairo, president, Groupe SEB USA
• Anthony E. Kircher, president, Winix Inc.
• Erik Reid, general manager, Kyocera Advanced Ceramics
• David Sabin, president, Kids Line

They were elected to three-year terms that begin Oct. 1 and end Sept. 30, 2014.

Also, new board officers were elected:

• Chairman – Richard L. Boynton, Jr., president/CEO, Jura Capresso Inc.
• Vice Chairman/Chairman Elect – William Reibl, president, Bill Reibl & Associates LLC
• reasurer – Michael Magerman, president/CEO, Quickie Mfg. Corp.

All officers serve one-year terms from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, 2012.

Retiring from the board are Mark Eichhorn, president/CEO, Anchor Hocking Co.; Barry Harper, Harper Brush Works, Inc.; and Robert L. Trudeau, chairman, Trudeau Corp. Re-appointed for a second three-year term was Steven Fraser, CMO, SAI Home Products Inc.

Also serving on the IHA Board are: Evan Dash, CEO, StoreBound; David E. Elliott, general manager/KitchenAid Small Appliances, KitchenAid; Steven Fraser, CMO, SAI Home Products, Inc.; Sheldon Goodman, president, Spectrum Diversified Designs, Inc.; Keith Jaffee, Focus Investments; Bruce Kaminstein, CEO, Casabella Holdings LLC and immediate past IHA Chairman; Gavin Lam, CEO, Lynns Concepts Inc.; Joseph Mallof, president/CEO, World Kitchen, LLC; Daniel Oehy, president, Swissmar; Alvise Ricoveri, managing director, De’Longhi America, Inc.; Gary Seehoff, CEO, Evriholder Products, LLC and Jenna Sellers Miller, president, Architec.

Serving on the executive committee of the board are Richard Boynton, Bill Reibl, Michael Magerman, Bruce Kaminstein and David Elliott.