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Newell Brands opens Design Center in Atlanta. By: peter giannetti. Editor-in-Chief Newell Brands has opened its new Atlanta Design Center, 37,000 square feet of operations across two locations positioned as a hub of the company's design innovation strategy across its portfolio of consumer brands. Newell Brands operates such home brands as Rubbermaid, Calphalon, Oster, Mr. Coffee, Crock-Pot and Foodsaver. Other brands from Newell include Sharpie, Coleman, Elmers and Graco. The Newell Design Center comprises two distinct facilities: the Queen Tower at Concourse Office Park, located at Newell's Atlanta headquarters; and a photo and creative studio at the company's Morgan Falls location. "Design has the power to shape how consumers experience our brands and products," said Nick Hammitt, Newell's chief marketing officer. "The Design Center is a significant investment in the company's future. By bringing together design, consumer insights, brand teams, R&D, and innovation partners, we are creating stronger connections between our consumers and brands and how we bring products to market." The Design Center brings together a comprehensive set of capabilities under one roof, including industrial and brand design, advanced digital visualization, physical prototyping and AI-enhancements, Newell noted. The center includes dedicated user experience research environments enable cross-functional teams to observe how real consumers interact with products: * Kitchen UX Lab: A research environment that replicates a real-world kitchen for consumers who like to cook and create. * Kids UX Lab: A specialized research space designed to create a comfortable, engaging environment involving parents, caregivers, and children interacting with its products. "The Design Center is about bringing together talent and collaboration in one place and building the next chapter of design at Newell Brands," said Brian Rice, Newell's vice president, global head of design. "Our goal is a design capability that helps our brands innovate with greater clarity, speed, and impact. We are building a place where great designers do work that truly matters."

CommerceIQ helps Newell Brands automate product content workflows. Account based orchestration (platforms) August 27, 2026 CommerceIQ helped Newell Brands automate manual product content workflows with a custom AI Content Agent built in under 80 days. The system reduced product detail page updates from about 35 minutes to less than a minute while maintaining 100% compliance with Newell Brands' product information management standards. Newell Brands needed a way to scale product content operations that had become heavily manual and repetitive as its e-commerce business expanded. The company said updating a single product detail page created a significant operational burden for teams managing product content at scale, and it wanted automation that would still follow its PIM standards. CommerceIQ and Newell Brands worked together to design and deploy a tailored AI Content Agent for those workflows, governance requirements, and product data. According to the article, the engagement produced a 40x improvement in time saved, allowing teams to spend less time on repetitive manual tasks and more time on higher-value strategic work. About the company. CommerceIQ is a software company that provides a retail ecommerce management platform for consumer brands. Its platform applies machine learning and automation across marketing, supply chain, sales operations, content, digital shelf analytics, and retail media. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California. company spotlight Collibra. Since 2008, Collibra has been uniting organizations by delivering trusted data for every use, for every user, and across every source. Its Data Intelligence Cloud brings flexible governance, continuous quality and built-in privacy to all types of data. The Global 2000 relies on Collibra to create the critical alignment that accelerates workflows and delivers better results faster. ABM has a diverse global footprint, with offices in the U.S., Belgium, Australia, Czech Republic, France, Poland and the U.K.

Newell Brands announced the upsizing and pricing of $600 million in 6.250% senior unsecured notes due 2031. The offering is expected to close on 19 August 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. The company plans to use the net proceeds to redeem in full its outstanding 6.375% senior notes due 2027, pay related fees and expenses, and repay a portion of its five-year asset-based revolving credit facility dated 30 July 2026. The notes are being offered only to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A and to certain non-US persons under Regulation S, both exempt from Securities Act registration requirements. Newell Brands is a consumer goods company with brands including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, and Yankee Candle.