ABOUT WORLD KITCHEN, LLC One of the nation’s leading housewares companies, World Kitchen, LLC, and its affiliates manufacture and market bakeware, dinnerware, kitchen and household tools, cookware, kitchen storage and cutlery sold under the world’s best known brands, including Baker’s Secret®, Chicago Cutlery®, Corelle®, CorningWare®, EKCO®, Magnalite®, Pyrex®, Revere®, and Visions®. OLFA® another of World Kitchen’s international brands, markets precision cutters, knives, blades, rulers, mats, and accessories. Most recently, the Snapware® brand, a leader in the food storage and home organization industry, was acquired in December 2010 by World Kitchen Holding Company, Inc. an affiliate of World Kitchen, LLC, and is now part of the company’s extensive housewares portfolio. World Kitchen’s family of brands has been in the vanguard of the housewares industry since the 19th century, beginning with the EKCO brand of metal bakeware, first introduced in 1888. Revere Ware tea kettles were introduced in 1892. Pyrex glass bakeware was first introduced in 1915. The Chicago Cutlery brand was established in 1930. Snapware Corporation was founded in 1994, beginning with its signature product – the Airtight Canister. EKCO Housewares Company, Corning Consumer Products Company and General Housewares Corporation were all forebears of the World Kitchen, LLC, family of companies. World Kitchen, LLC, was formally launched in 2000. With corporate offices in Rosemont, Ill., World Kitchen employs more than 3,200 people, and has major manufacturing and distribution operations in North America and Asia-Pacific regions. In the U.S., the company’s key manufacturing plants are its glassware plant in Charleroi, Pa., its Pressware plant in Corning, N.Y., where Corelle® dinnerware and CorningWare® SimplyLite bakeware are made, and now the Snapware plant in Mira Loma, California. For more information on the company, visit www.worldkitchen.com. .