Live Product Search Submission
The Home Depot, the world’s leading home improvement retailer, seeks new product innovations for paint tools and sundries.
Deadline: Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 11:59PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)Tell your friends about this opportunity:
Description
The Home Depot has partnered with Edison Nation and Zibra LLC, a manufacturer of innovative paint applicators, to find innovative new paint tools and related sundries that help its customers get their painting projects done better, faster and easier.
For this search The Home Depot seeks new paint tool product ideas that are useful for preparation, application, organization and clean up, to help its customer base of do-it-yourselfers and professional painters.
With more than 2,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada, The Home Depot carries up to 40,000 different kinds of building materials, home improvement supplies, appliances and lawn and garden products. With a wide array of unique and useful paint tools and accessories, perhaps there is room for yours, too!
Reward
Selected ideas will receive a $2,500 minimum advance on 20 years percentage of sales or buyout. We split the royalties 50/50 with you on the products that we select. Royalties vary based upon the product but we always earn industry-leading rates.
Requirements
While not required, we highly encourage you to submit video of yourself demonstrating a prototype and explaining the features and benefits of your submission. Please be as detailed as possible in telling us about your innovation.
Consider the following paint tool and sundries sub-categories, including:
- Paint preparation tools (such as scrapers, putty knives, tape, masking guns, caulk guns, sanding blocks, paint can openers, etc.)
- Paint application tools (such as frames, poles, covers, paint trays and pails, trim and edge tools, etc.)
- Paint organization tools (such as trays, buckets, pails, containers, hooks, etc.)
- Paint sundries (including miscellaneous accessories and gadgets such as bucket pourers, stir sticks, drop cloths, etc.)
For this search, your innovative concepts should:
- Be unique, offering alternatives to competing brands’ current product solutions
- Appeal to the end user’s desire for time-saving convenience and effectiveness to get the job done.
- Provide a low-to-mid-range priced solution which makes consumers’ lives better (typically retailing for less than $19.99, with many selling below $10-$15).
- Appeal to The Home Depot’s primary consumers (do-it-yourselfers and professional painters)
The cost to submit an idea at Edison Nation is just $25 ($20 for gold members). This fee covers Edison Nation’s product screening process.
For further information on The Home Depot and the products it carries, please visit www.homedepot.com. For information about Zibra LLC go to www.enjoyzibra.com.
