Kathy Ireland Receives 5th Good Housekeeping Seal

Los Angeles, CA, March 21, 2007--Lifestyle Designer, Kathy Ireland is celebrating the fifth Good Housekeeping Seal, awarded to her $l.4 billion a year design and marketing firm, Kathy Ireland Worldwide.

The honor is for aromatic candles. These products are from Kathy's outdoor living collaboration, Jardin du Jour, Cultivated by Landscape Designer Nicholas Walker. The candles are manufactured by Kathy Ireland Home by Hanna's Candles, which are among the best selling candles in America.

"It is a great joy and pleasure to acknowledge the success of JduJ. This extraordinary brand is led by Nicholas Walker, who beautifully brings solutions for the outdoors to every one of our customers. Nicholas' unique talent for translating the outdoor inspirations to indoor products is a special source of beauty for our company. Our candles being recognized by Good Housekeeping is greatly exciting. We are grateful to our partners at Kathy Ireland Home by Hanna's," said Kathy Ireland, CEO and Chief Designer, Kathy Ireland Worldwide.

"Supporting Kathy's mission of '...finding solutions for families, especially busy moms' is dynamic. Having the support of Good Housekeeping for our candles is a pleasure that we will always celebrate," said, Nicholas Walker, Landscape Designer and Kathy Ireland Worldwide Ambassador.

Kathy Ireland Shades of America Colorwall, carpet collection at Shaw Inc, which is a Berkshire Hathaway Company and another Kathy Ireland Worldwide specialty brand, ACafe by Chef Andre, are also recipients of this distinction.

Kathy Ireland Worldwide is recognized as one the most powerful brands in the home industry. Kathy is a recipient of an Honorary Master's Degree from American Intercontinental University and receives recognition as Mother of the Year from the National Mother's Day Committee. Leading market research acknowledges the Kathy Ireland Worldwide brand as 1st in product innovation and 2nd in greatest conversion improvement.

About Kathy Ireland Worldwide:

Kathy Ireland Worldwide (KIWW), is the design and marketing firm founded in 1993 by CEO and Chief Designer, Kathy Ireland.

Forbes Magazine reports that KIWW is a "design empire which grosses over one billion dollars annually in retail sales." This year Newsweek reported, "Annual sales run to $1.4 billion." KIWW products include flooring, rugs, home furniture, office and entertainment furniture, lighting, decorative accessories, window coverings, bedding, mattresses, candles, apparel, jewelry, blankets, leather, hand painted porcelain, fire resistant products, and top of bed fashions.

In 2000, KIWW began expanding its mission and consumer needs, with the addition of specialty brands, presenting "Design Ambassadors" ACafe by Chef Andre for food and entertaining, Jardin du Jour cultivated by Nicholas Walker for outdoor living and garden inspirations and The Quilts of Gee's Bend whose original works of art from rural Alabama are the Genesis of unique designs for home. The original Quilts of Gee's Bend gained international recognition through museum tours around the world.

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