Nourison Names Paquette VP Soft Home

Saddle Brook, NJ, November 21, 2006--Paula Paquette joins Nourison in a recently created position, “VP Soft Home.” Paula’s extensive retail merchandising experience includes a Senior VP position at K-Mart, where she managed Home Divisions and developed the Martha Stewart brand, and a VP Merchandising position at Linens N Things, where she created and implemented successful analytic-based merchandising strategies. Rita Karmiol, Executive Vice President Nourison said, ”Paula will assist us in our continued growth within the Soft Home market. Her position is responsible for maintaining our commitment to excellent service for retailers, delivering quality products to market and exploring and expanding innovative new product lines. We are excited with this appointment and believe we will see accelerated growth come from the area under Paula’s direction.”