COMPANY PROFILE: Koziol

Koziol is a German plastics manufacturer that has been in business way longer than I’ve been alive (est. 1927!) When we started Fun Housewares 4 years ago, Koziol products comprised the majority of our lineup. Each Koziol product is brightly colored and functional, yet many take on the shape of an animal or a little character that also makes the product fun to look at. This is the essence of our website: each product MUST be both functional and fun. Koziol nailed it on the head for us which is why we were and still are so taken with their design sensibilities. Some of our best sellers were Koziol’s Audrey tea strainers and Tim and Tweetie, both dish brushes. (All of those products are now sold out!)

Our most popular product ever was a little liquid soap dispenser shaped like an abstracted bird that Koziol called Salto. That particular product was installed in the kitchen of TV’s Alton Brown, which drove sales of the product through the roof. Regretfully 2 years ago, Koziol’s US distributor closed it’s doors and we lost the ability to easily order and reorder the Koziol products. We successfully ordered all of the remaining Saltos as our distributor was clearing out their CT warehouse, but those few hundred Saltos sold out pretty quickly. Now Salto has joined the growing ranks of discontinued Koziol products. Each Koziol product is phased out after a while so they remain collector’s items, unlike other household products which are usually just thrown out and forgotten about. Likewise for the differently colored plastics: Koziol seems to phase in differently colored plastics with the changing seasons, often releasing limited runs of their current products in more rare colors.

We still have dozens of different Koziol products in stock but our inventory is beginning to run low now, so if you have an interest in this fun line of housewares, please do take a peek at our website soon!