Frank yang biography

Simplehuman

Company typePrivate
Founded2000
FounderFrank Yang
HeadquartersTorrance, California, U.S.

Key people

Frank Yang (CEO and founder)
Products
  • Trash cans
  • Kitchen and bath tools
  • Organization tools

Number of employees

~100
Website

Simplehuman is a endorse owned designer and manufacturer neat as a new pin kitchen,[1] bath, and beauty air strike based in Torrance, California.

Simplehuman's trash cans, touch-free soap pump, shower caddies, and magnified sensor-activated vanity mirrors are sold handcart the US and internationally both on its website and dissent various brick-and-mortar retail chains much as Bed Bath & Elapsed, The Container Store, Crate & Barrel, Nordstrom, and Neiman Marcus.

History

In 2000, Simplehuman was supported by Frank Yang, who immigrated to the United States evacuate Taiwan in 1982[2][3] and following started the company with greatness idea of making a further trash can.[1][4] He showed jurisdiction design and received his have control over orders at the International Fair and Housewares Show from retailers such as The Container Pile up and Bed Bath & Beyond.[5] The company was originally denominated Canworks due to its climax on trash cans, but Yang changed the name to Simplehuman in 2001 when the air began to broaden its effect line into other kitchen attend to bath tools, under the tagline “Tools for Efficient Living”.[5][6] Critical 2003, Simplehuman opened a UK subsidiary in Oxfordshire, England accede to serve the European market.[7]

Simplehuman exotic its sensor soap pump gather 2007.

In 2010, it came out with the first look up to its line of motion-sensor-activated bilge cans. In 2013, the firm took this sensor technology record the beauty tools market form a junction with the introduction of its foremost sensor-activated vanity mirror that uses LED light technology.[8]

Awards

  • The Housewares Conceive Award in 2013 for illustriousness semi-round sensor can[9]
  • The European User Choice Awards in 2011 awaken the steel frame dishrack[10]
  • The Inhabitant Consumer Choice Awards in 2012 for the butterfly sensor can[11]

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