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Business Wire
5 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Cabinetworks Group CEO Serves on Panel Tackling Supplying Building Products in Today's Tariff-Shifting Market
LIVONIA, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jeff Jackson, CEO of Cabinetworks Group, the country's largest privately owned cabinet manufacturer, recently served as a panelist during The Summit 2025 in Laguna Beach, Calif. 'The recently announced tariffs will have a minimal impact on our business,' said Jackson. 'While we pass through some of these additional costs, we are actively evaluating our supply chain to identify opportunities for cost mitigation." Hosted by on May 20-21, The Summit is an annual client-only conference that brings together the industry's most influential people to discuss the current state of housing and where the industry is headed. Participants listened in on day one as Jackson spoke during a session tackling supplying building products in today's tariff-shifting policy backdrop. Jackson was joined by two other CEOs: Brad Southern of LP Building Solutions and Mitch Hires of Construction Resources. During the session, Jackson expanded on maintaining a product pipeline focused on market changes, working with customers to create affordable purchase strategies that reduce costs on both sides, investments in automation for the manufacturing plants to maximize labor efficiency, improvements to the company's team member development programs to not only find talent but develop them for future leadership opportunities, and more. 'The recently announced tariffs will have a minimal impact on our business,' said Jackson. 'While we pass through some of these additional costs, we are actively evaluating our supply chain to identify opportunities for cost mitigation. At the same time, we continue to invest in network optimization and operational efficiency to reduce costs while enhancing the overall customer experience. Our focus is on long-term resilience and sustainability, ensuring we can support our customers today and well into the future.' Jackson joined Cabinetworks in mid-2024. With more than 25 years of experience leading company transformations, he has spent the past 19 years in the building products industry, most recently as president and CEO of PGT Innovations, a manufacturer and supplier of premium windows and doors. About Cabinetworks Group As the largest privately held cabinetmaker in the United States, Cabinetworks Group is home to more than 5,700 team members; 19 locations, including 16 manufacturing facilities; and 15 brands — among them industry leaders KraftMaid®, Medallion®, Merillat® and Smart Cabinetry. Through an expansive network of major home centers, independent dealers and distributors. Cabinetworks builds life into the kitchen — meeting any customer's vision with the industry's most comprehensive cabinetry. More information about the company, its products, and career opportunities can be found at
Sydney Morning Herald
6 days ago
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
The Summit restaurant has reopened. Is it any good?
So what do you make of this place, a restaurant with a lot of ambition but also a degree of obligation to be all things to all people? Because that's a very hard thing to pull off. And The Summit gets pretty close. Machin says the menu will change format in the coming weeks, switching to a more traditional a la carte selection, with a degustation option. And that seems sensible. For many Brisbane locals, this will be an occasion restaurant where they've been summoned for a group dinner. A la carte better suits these kinds of situations with disparate diners, and cuts off the risk of cuisine clash on the share plates (for us, it was purposeful, but an everyday punter could've done with a bit of guidance from waitstaff). Machin has mellowed since his Urbane days but isn't one to suffer fools, and you suspect he'll happily walk if someone or something messes too much with his execution. But if Mantle can get him to stick around while continuing to fine-tune the already engaging service, The Summit will prove a restaurant fit for its location.
The Age
6 days ago
- Business
- The Age
The Summit restaurant has reopened. Is it any good?
So what do you make of this place, a restaurant with a lot of ambition but also a degree of obligation to be all things to all people? Because that's a very hard thing to pull off. And The Summit gets pretty close. Machin says the menu will change format in the coming weeks, switching to a more traditional a la carte selection, with a degustation option. And that seems sensible. For many Brisbane locals, this will be an occasion restaurant where they've been summoned for a group dinner. A la carte better suits these kinds of situations with disparate diners, and cuts off the risk of cuisine clash on the share plates (for us, it was purposeful, but an everyday punter could've done with a bit of guidance from waitstaff). Machin has mellowed since his Urbane days but isn't one to suffer fools, and you suspect he'll happily walk if someone or something messes too much with his execution. But if Mantle can get him to stick around while continuing to fine-tune the already engaging service, The Summit will prove a restaurant fit for its location.
Time Out
7 days ago
- Time Out
Brisbane's newest restaurant might have the most breathtaking backdrop in the entire city
The River City is gunning for gold in Australia's dining scene, with a slew of world-class restaurants opening in recent months. But Brisbane's latest claim to fame? One of the city's newest riverside eateries, Supernormal Brisbane, was just named among the world's best new restaurants of the past year. And the city's culinary scene is showing no signs of slowing down, welcoming its latest dining venue, The Summit Restaurant, atop Mt Coot-tha last month. Perched on the edge of Brisbane's highest peak, The Summit Restaurant boasts some of the most sublime views of the city skyline out to Moreton Bay. The multi-million-dollar revitalisation of the heritage-listed venue – including a refined dining room, a vibrant brewpub-style public bar and an expansive verandah – has been brought to life by Mantle Group, whose resume includes The Charming Squire, The Sound Garden, Babylon and Tai Tai. At the kitchen's helm is Queensland hospo legend Kym Machin, who brings more than 30 years of culinary experience from top venues, such as Urbane, Bare Bones Society and Same Same But Different. Sustainability and seasonality are at the heart of the menu, which traverses Queensland's diverse climates, regions and native ingredients. Diners are encouraged to journey through themed sections titled Sea, Air, Land, Earth and Garden, with small plates to start and sweets to round out the experience. Machin said, 'When you're standing at The Summit, you can see for miles – from the city to the bay and out to the hinterland – and we wanted the menu to reflect that sense of scale and beauty.' Bread is baked in-house daily and paired with cultured butter, smoked salt and honey harvested from The Summit's own beehives. Other standout starters, including Elliott Heads' spanner crab salad and ocean trout gravlax, are served with fresh herbs picked from the restaurant's edible garden. Mains are best enjoyed as a share-style feast, with highlights including Moreton Bay prawns topped with native herb chimichurri, roast duck smoked over paperbark, almond-fed pork with pickled apples and pumpkin agnolotti in brown butter sauce. If you get decision anxiety, the kitchen can take the reins with two chef-curated tasting menus ($79 and $99). Or you can simply drink in the ripper views with a cocktail and a casual bite from the bar menu. The opening of The Summit Restaurant marks just the first stage of this multi-million-dollar transformation at Mt Coot-tha summit. While still in the planning stage, the team hopes to deliver the full transformation ahead of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games – complete with a two-level Pavilion venue, a boutique gin distillery and a cultural tourism experience that honours the mountain's rich history and significance.
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Global internet artist-activist Blcksmth goes viral with Detroit art installation
Michael Schneider has gone viral yet again – this time, direct from Detroit. Known around the world by his internet handle Blcksmth, he is known for his whimsical, witty and thought-provoking typographical art that writes out both fun and profound quotes using balloons, flowers, leaves and/or LED lights. Commanding nearly a million followers on Instagram, almost every post he makes goes around the internet like a lightning bolt; if you've been on any major social media platform in the last few years, you've seen his work. Schneider's most recent work was done right in the heart of the Motor City during his first visit, and he confessed to the Free Press that he's fallen in love with Detroit. He was brought to town to create several installations around the campus of The Summit, a four-day event that convened business executives, major arts and music figures, and some of the most celebrated thinkers of the day to connect, collect and collaborate. One display he created here, a Campus Martius flower installation reading 'If being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked by now,' has racked up more than 23,000 Instagram likes since it was posted on Friday, June 7. He became so enamored with Detroit that he also created two different video montages chronicling his experiences in the city. Schneider, 51, first went viral in 2018 – before the balloons and flowers – with his 'Box Wine Boyfriend' series. 'I'd had a bad breakup,' he explained, 'and so I constructed a replacement boyfriend out of the boxes of wine that I used to self-medicate after the breakup. And we posted in all these different scenarios that I would fictionally do with my boyfriend. So we were grocery shopping together, and reading the paper in bed together, and it was just a silly, ridiculous series but it was actually pretty fun to do.' The following year came the balloon messages, which blew up during the 2020 Covid lockdown when celebrities began sharing his images. 'I love typographic art,' he said, 'and so it's always been fun to just play with words and quote art. My friend Johnny says, 'One day, I lived in a world without seeing balloons on a wall. And then I saw balloons on a wall, and then I never saw anything else.' 'So I'm sorry if they are a constant presence on your social media feed,' he added with a laugh. As the United States moved deeper into the pandemic era and the first Donald Trump presidency, Blcksmth's posts notably began drifting into themes of social activism and self-empowerment. Now, it's a regular occurrence to see posts with such phrases as 'You still haven't met all of the people who are going to love you' (a sign he recreated while in Detroit) or 'PBS didn't become 'woke,' you grew up to be a bad person.' The pinned post on Schneider's Instagram page reads, "When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus,' and he has also created signs that directly refer to Trump. 'My lean into activism was inevitable,' he said. 'As a queer, half-Mexican descent artist, my very life is political. That bled into my art, and quote artworks are so powerful to convey succinct messages. Unfortunately, they can also be interpreted differently by a great many people, but I feel like I have an obligation and a mission to amplify voices and words that would maybe not necessarily be amplified as much. My favorite thing is to collaborate with other artists and activists in communities that aren't seen as much as I am.' More: Detroit's 'best art show in 50 years' closing soon at Carr Center See also: Theaters, arts organizations across Michigan facing crisis after Trump's NEA cuts He initially worried that taking a political stance at this uncertain moment in American history would close a lot of doors for him. Instead, he found the opposite to be true. 'At the beginning of this year,' he said, 'I was facing a very difficult decision, because I knew that I would book less jobs if I still remained politically outspoken. For a few weeks, I did even archive a great number of my politically oriented posts to make my social media presence appear more universal and more neutral. 'And when the week of the inauguration hit, I was gripping my phone in my hand tightly, and I was like, 'F that. I'm not going to do that.' And I unarchived all of those, and then I did a post that directly addressed the inauguration.' The trade-off? Schneider quickly booked three jobs in a row. 'I intend to let my audience – who is, for the most part, aligned with my values – know where they should shop and where they should put their money, that they are worth people putting their money towards them and giving them their business,' he said. 'I had no preconceived notions of Detroit when Summit invited me out here, and since I have been here, I have been really, really charmed by the history of the city, a lot of the buildings. I find parallels between Detroit and Portland, honestly. I feel like they both have a really thriving art scene. Half of the people who have come up to approach me and say hi are artists! 'I went to the Eastern Market to do an installation, and there's an endless supply of colorful walls and murals that I could overlay my balloons on, so it was hard to pick one. And, again, everybody is so friendly, it also feels similar to Portland. I think both cities are coming from difficult recent pasts, and there's a sort of spirit of optimism in the air and hope for a brighter future. And, you know, anytime you visit a new city as a tourist, it's going to roll out the red carpet for you, and you're always going to find yourself being like, 'I could live here.' This is a great city, but I really do feel that about Detroit.' To follow Blcksmth and see more of his work, go to This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: An internet superstar fell in love with Detroit and went viral here
