October Marks 12th Annual Window Covering Safety Month

PEARL RIVER, N.Y., Oct. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- This October, the window covering industry, with the support of the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission is celebrating the 12^th annual Window Covering Safety Month.  Manufacturers, retailers, designers, workrooms and installers join forces to raise awareness of the potential dangers posed to young children by window treatments with cords, urging consumers to replace older window coverings with today's safer products, or to get free retrofit kits from the Window Covering Safety Council (www.windowcoverings.org) to help make older products safer.

"Raising awareness is an ongoing issue as new families and households are created every year," says Joe Jankoski, Corporate Vice President of Merchandising for Hunter Douglas, "Not only do we support Window Covering Safety Month every year, but window covering cord safety is a top priority for us each and every day.  Hunter Douglas has an incredible variety of product operating systems on the market that eliminate lift cords or substantially reduce access to them."

Every Hunter Douglas product collection has one or more options that make it especially well- suited for homes with young children.  The window fashions leader has consistently been at the forefront of the industry with regard to innovating alternative lifting systems that enhance the safety of its window coverings as well as building consumer awareness of window covering safety. 

Additional information can be found in the Hunter Douglas Child Safety At The Window brochure available for downloading at hunterdouglas.com, at many Hunter Douglas dealers or by calling 1-800-99SAFTY.

Hunter Douglas Inc., headquartered in Pearl River, N.Y, is the leading manufacturer and marketer of custom window fashions in North America and a major manufacturer of architectural products. The company is a national sponsor of Habitat for Humanity, covering windows in every Habitat home built in the U.S. and Canada.  Hunter Douglas brand products are designed, developed and custom-crafted in the U.S.

For more information, visit www.hunterdouglas.com or call 1-800-274-2985.  Follow Hunter Douglas at facebook.com/HunterDouglas, pinterest.com/hunterdouglaswf/ and youtube.com/user/hunterdouglas. Download "The Art of Window Dressing" iPad app through a link at www.hunterdouglas.com.

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SOURCE Hunter Douglas Inc.