Mark Adkison, President of Kuhn Rikon

This week on CEOs You Should Know, we host Mark Adkison, President of Kuhn Rikon.

Episode Transcript

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iHeartMedia presents the Nashville Chamber of CommerceCEOs you should know in the studio,
Mark Adkisson, president of Coonricon,tell us a little bit about yourself.
Married to my wife about twenty fiveyears. We have a daughter that lives
here in Nashville. Her and herhusband new grand baby. So born and
raised in Arkansas. But been inthis industry for put together now over two
decades. Have been in the housebur'sindustry, working developing products, selling brands

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that are known kind of throughout theindustry. What is the mission of your
business? So, our company missionis to bring joy into the kitchen through
innovative and high quality products that makelife easier and also protect the environment.
Describe what your business is about.Coonricon is a family owned company based in
Switzerland. Coun was the original familyfounding name and Recon is the small village
in Switzerland where we still have ourmain offices and also have a factory there.

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Our business is about providing those greatkitchen products, but our core values
is doing kind of high quality products, functional products, things that you actually
could use in the kitchen and notbe something you putting in a drawer and
never use again. We want themto be pulled out, be used on
a regular basis, everything from afive dollars Swiss peeler that's made in Switzerland
all the way up to handmade,hand painted fondue pots. Our primary business

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is through sales to key retailers.So if you go into a Williamson Noma,
you go into a Creighton barrel,you would see our brand of products
there. And then, of coursewe sell direct to consumers via our website
and in our new store here.Mark Adkison, president of Coon Recon.
Where can people find out more?They can come to our website at coonrecon
dot com, or they can comesee us at our store here in Nashville
at the new Tanger Outlets. Thishas been the Nashville Chamber of Commerce CEOs

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