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Pamela Stafford

Pamela Stafford

President, CEO & Co-Founder of Hestan Culinary, a Napa Valley-based premium cookware company known for chef-proven performance and innovative cookware collections.

Aug 13, 2026

How She Went Global

How She Went Global

Episode 18: From a Napa Valley Barn to the World's Kitchens (with Pamela Stafford of Hestan Culinary)

Aug 13 · 30m

Laurel Delaney
Laurel DelaneyHOST
12:32
So tell us about that.
Pamela Stafford
Pamela StaffordGUEST
12:34
We are very, very much a global organization with factories worldwide.
Pamela Stafford
Pamela StaffordGUEST
12:39
And our prime manufacturing for Hestan is within our own factories in Italy.
Pamela Stafford
Pamela StaffordGUEST
12:45
So our primary factory is located just outside Bergamo, about an hour from Milan.
Pamela Stafford
Pamela StaffordGUEST
12:52
And we have a world-class state-of-the-art manufacturing facility.
Pamela Stafford
Pamela StaffordGUEST
12:56
And so this is where our Italian craftsmen are really building our product.
Pamela Stafford
Pamela StaffordGUEST
13:01
We have high level of automation.
Laurel Delaney
Laurel DelaneyHOST
16:25
What about your actual customers? How many different countries are your actual customers purchasing products? And secondly, what percentage of your business is international?

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