Lifetime Brands (LCUT)

The Company’s customers’ internal efforts to design and manufacture products may compete with similar products of the Company.

Some of the Company’s existing and potential customers continuously evaluate whether to design and manufacture their own products or purchase them directly from outside vendors and distribute them under their own brand names. Although, based on the Company’s past experience, such products usually target the lower price point portion of the market, if any of the Company’s customers or potential customers pursue such options it may adversely affect the Company’s business.

The Company’s customers’ internal efforts to design and manufacture products may compete with similar products of the Company.

Some of the Company’s existing and potential customers continuously evaluate whether to design and manufacture their own products or purchase them directly from outside vendors and distribute them under their own brand names. Although, based on the Company’s past experience, such products usually target the lower price point portion of the market, if any of the Company’s customers or
potential customers pursue such options it may adversely affect the Company’s business.

The Company’s customers’ internal efforts to design and manufacture products may compete with similar products of the Company.

Some of the Company’s existing and potential customers continuously evaluate whether to design and manufacture their own products or purchase them directly from outside vendors and distribute them under their own brand names. Although, based on the Company’s past experience, such products usually target the lower price point portion of the market, if any of the Company’s customers or potential customers pursue such options it may adversely affect the Company’s business.

Some of the Company’s existing and potential customers continuously
evaluate whether to design and manufacture their own products or purchase them directly
from outside vendors and distribute them under their own brand names. Although, based on
the Company’s past experience, such products usually target the lower price point
portion of the market, if any of the Company’s customers or potential customers
pursue such options it may adversely affect the Company’s business.