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Contact: Deborah A.Teschke
Manager, Media Relations & Communications
847-692-0110

Former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow to Address Industry Breakfast at 2008 International Home + Housewares Show

ROSEMONT, ILL (December 11, 2007)—Former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow will be the featured speaker at the Industry Breakfast/International Housewares Association Annual Meeting during the 2008 International Home + Housewares Show, to be held March 16-18 at McCormick Place in Chicago. Snow’s presentation will focus on “The International Outlook: An Overview and Election 2008 Update.”

The Breakfast will be held on Tuesday, March 18. Snow’s appearance continues a tradition of world-renown Breakfast speakers, including former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell (who has appeared twice, 2007 and 1999), former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former President George H.W. Bush, Madeleine Albright, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, Sen. John Edwards and Publisher Steve Forbes. The breakfast will begin at 7:15 a.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the South Building. In addition to Snow’s presentation, IHA Chairman Peter B. Cameron, chief executive officer of Waterford Wedgwood, will briefly outline the Association’s accomplishment for the past year and its objectives for the future.

Snow served as the White House Press Secretary for the George W. Bush Administration from May 2006 to September 2007. In 1991, he served as director of speechwriting and Deputy Assistant to the President for Media Affairs for President George H.W. Bush. He has spent 25 years in the news business, working in all three major media—print, radio and television. He started his career in 1979 as an editorial writer for The Greensboro Record in North Carolina and went on to write editorials for The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. He ran the editorial pages in both The Daily Press of Newport News and The Washington Times. He has written nationally syndicated columns for both The Detroit News and USA Today.

For seven years, he served as the host of FOX News Sunday, and most recently he served as the host of The Tony Snow Show on FOX News Radio and Weekend Live with Tony Snow on the FOX News Channel.

In February 2005, Snow was diagnosed with colon cancer. After successful colon surgery, he began a course of chemotherapy treatment and returned to work at FOX News in April 2005. In March 2007, 10 months after becoming White House Press Secretary, Snow learned his cancer had returned. Vowing to fight the disease, once again he underwent surgery. In April 2007, Snow resumed his White House duties and began a second round of chemotherapy treatment, which he completed just prior to leaving the Bush Administration.

“We are pleased and honored to have Tony Snow as our guest speaker this year,” said Phil Brandl, IHA president. “Having just left working in the White House, Snow will give us an insightful look at the current international political picture and the 2008 election.”

Tickets for the Breakfast are $300 for a table of 10 with preferred seating or $25 per person. They may be ordered online at www.housewares.org or by contacting Perry Reynolds, vice president, marketing + trade development, at 847-692-0109 or preynolds@housewares.org

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IHA is the 69-year-old voice of the housewares industry, which accounted for (US$)$306 billion at retail worldwide in 2005. The non-profit, full-service association sponsors the world's premier housewares products exposition, the International Home & Housewares Show, and offers its 1,700 member companies a wide range of services, including industry and government advocacy, export assistance, State-of-the-Industry reports, point-of-sale and consumer purchase data through Housewares MarketWatch, executive management peer groups, a unique Web-based community at www.housewares.org and group buying discounts on business solutions services.