Press Information Area
Welcome to Fiskars Garden Press Information area. Here, you can find the latest corporate news releases, special press advisories and links to additional information.
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Fiskars Garden Introduces New Generation of Garden Tools & Accessories
“This entire product line-up is built around ergonomic engineering and inventive technology that works with the human body, magnifies power and improves posture. With this product launch, we’re inviting everyone into the garden with tools that make the experience safe and satisfying for all.”
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Fiskars Garden Introduces High-Style, Low-Maintenance Pottery
“Our 2009 pottery designs have a look that’s closer to the Earth, reflecting our customers’ love of natural colors and materials, yet they also offer greater durability, lighter weight and better weather resistance than traditional pottery,” explains Paul Tonnesen, Fiskars Garden & Outdoor Living President.
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Fiskars® Introduces Rainwater Collection System
The Fiskars Rainwater Collection System can help you salvage this valuable resource, so you can use it to provide much-needed moisture for your yard, garden and even indoor plants. Designed to easily integrate into your home’s existing downspouts, the Collection System diverts rainwater from gutters into a covered barrel, where the extra water is stored until you need it to perk up your tomatoes or refresh your rose bushes.
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Fiskars® New Eco-Friendly Pottery:
Fiskars brings fashion and function to the party with its new collection of Eco-Friendly Pottery. Designed to replace wood, plastic or clay containers, these pots are made from byproducts of renewable sustainable materials such as rice straw, wheat straw, bamboo and reeds.
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Fiskars® garden tools earn Arthritis Foundation’s prestigious Ease-of-Use Commendation
The Arthritis Foundation Ease-of-Use program encourages manufacturers to design user-friendly products and packaging. The rigorous approval process includes evaluation by a team of scientists who assess each product in the laboratory, as well as a panel of people with moderate to severe arthritis who put the products to practical use.
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Hope sprouts anew on Chicago’s South Side
It was sadly ironic: In a place called Altgeld Gardens, there was no thriving garden. Only a plot of tired grass and ragged bushes struggled to grow in this challenged South Chicago neighborhood fringed with derelict steel mills and waste dumps.
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Cinema Series Celebrates Fiskars Creative Spirit
After 350 years in business, the Fiskars Corporation has plenty of stories to tell. But the one that we’re most excited about, and the one we’ve chosen to share in our new Cinema Series, is the story of Fiskars’ ongoing support for creativity and self-expression.
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Benton County’s First Rain Garden Officially Opened June 16
“Rain gardens like this one are an important tool to manage urban run-off, because they capture rainwater and allow it soak slowly into the ground,” explains master gardener Chari Cross, who developed the new rain garden along with Mark Bray and the Benton County Master Gardeners.
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Fiskars Garden Unveils Wave of New Garden Tools & Accessories
“These garden tools feature innovative technology, stylish design and increased comfort. With this exciting product line-up, Fiskars is once again redefining garden tools.”
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Fiskars Garden & Outdoor Living Continues Partnership With 2003 Project Orange Thumb Recipient
Fiskars Garden and Outdoor Living...announced today a continued partnership with The City of Sacramento with a donation of gardening tools for their Community Garden Tool Shed. The tools will be presented at the Grand Opening Celebration of the Fremont Community Garden, June 9, 2007.
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Fiskars Garden Introduces Easy Reach Pruners
Fiskars, a world leader in innovative cutting tools, is pleased to introduce two new hand pruners with extra long handles. Available with a 15 or 25-inch handles, these pruners feature our patented Power-Lever® technology - a unique design that uses levers to multiply your cutting power, making even those big pruning cuts easier.
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Arthritis Foundation Awards Ease-of-Use Commendation to Fiskars® PowerGear® Garden Tools
Nearly one in three consumers suffers from some form of arthritis. Fiskars has a solution to get those people back into the garden. Fiskars® PowerGear® line of garden tools makes gardening so much easier that the Arthritis Foundation® has awarded them with their prestigious Ease-of-Use Commendation
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Fiskars® Big Grip Cultivating Tools: Big Comfort, Big Control
With Fiskars® Big Grip Cultivating Tools, you can dig, plant or cultivate to your heart's content. That's because they feature extra-large, soft molded grips that provide added comfort and control. Gardening enthusiasts helped design these tools for maximum comfort with a wide range of uses in mind.
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FISKARS ® Cultivating Tools: Won't Rust, Bust or Collect Dust
With FISKARS® Softouch® Cultivating Tools, you can dig, plant orcultivate to your heart's content. Made of high-strength cast aluminumalloy, these remarkable tools won't rust, bend or break. Gardening enthusiasts helped design these tools for maximum comfort with a wide range of uses in mind.
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Sticks and Stones Won't Hurt the HardShell™ Kangaroo™
Bushel baskets and garbage cans are handy for weeding, gardening, lugging and planting, but when they're not in use, they take up a lot of storage space. That was until FISKARS® Kangaroo™ Container came along. Now Fiskars has taken this innovative product to the next level with the HardShell™ Kangaroo™ Container.
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Fiskars® Provides Innovative Solutions to Arthritis Sufferers–Garden Tools Receive Prestigious Ease-of-Use Commendation
Nearly one in three Americans suffer from some form of arthritis. Fiskars Garden & Outdoor Living provides a solution to get those people back into the garden. Fiskars PowerGear® line of garden tools makes gardening so much easier that the Arthritis Foundation® has awarded them with the prestigious Ease-of-Use Commendation.
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Fiskars® Launches ‘Best Fall Harvest Garden’ Photo Contest on Neighborhoodcrossing.Com
“We are excited to see what gardeners have created over the summer and hope we will see entries from a variety of gardens.”
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Fiskars® Tools Commended for Helping People Hold On to Activities They Love
In its 10th annual awards ceremony, Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) announced that Fiskars is one of just four U.S. companies to earn a prestigious Eagle award for their efforts to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities.
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Fiskars® Encourages Community Gardening
To promote sustainable agriculture, horticultural education, community involvement as well as neighborhood beautification, ten grants will be offered in 2008.
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Fiskars® Garden Unveils Wave of New Garden Tools & Accessories
Fiskars® Garden and Outdoor Living unveiled its2008 New Product collection, led by the highly anticipated Power-Pivotfamily of products.
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Exceptional Gardens Earn a Creativity Boost
In its highest form the craft of gardening can compete with any painting, ode, dance, or classical composition as a form of expression.
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