<PAGE> 1
Exhibit 24
POWER OF ATTORNEY
-----------------
Each of the undersigned officers and/or directors of Acorn Products,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), hereby appoints John G. Jacob, J.
Mitchell Dolloff, and Robert J. Tannous as his true and lawful
attorneys-in-fact, or any of them, with power to act without the others, as his
true and lawful attorney-in-fact, in his name and on his behalf, and in any and
all capacities stated below, to sign and to cause to be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission the Company's Registration Statement on Form
S-8 (the "Registration Statement") to register under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, an additional 300,000 shares of Common Stock, without par value, of
the Company to be sold and distributed by the Company pursuant to the Company's
Second Amended and Restated 1997 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan (the
"Plan") and such other number of shares as may be issued under the anti-dilution
provisions of the Plan, and any and all amendments, including post-effective
amendments, to the Registration Statement, hereby granting unto such
attorneys-in-fact, and to each of them, full power and authority to do and
perform in the name and on behalf of the undersigned, in any and all such
capacities, every act and thing whatsoever necessary to be done in and about the
premises as fully as the undersigned could or might do in person, hereby
granting to each such attorney-in-fact full power of substitution and
revocation, and hereby ratifying all that any such attorney-in-fact or his
substitute may do by virtue hereof.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 9th day of August,
2000.
SIGNATURE TITLE
--------- -----
/s/ A. Corydon Meyer President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director
-----------------------
A. Corydon Meyer
/s/ John G. Jacob Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
-----------------------
John G. Jacob
/s/ William W. Abbott Director
-----------------------
William W. Abbott
/s/ Matthew S. Barrett Director
-----------------------
Matthew S. Barrett
/s/ John J. Kahl Director
-----------------------
John J. Kahl
/s/ Stephen A. Kaplan Director
-----------------------
Stephen A. Kaplan
/s/ John L. Mariotti Director
-----------------------
John L. Mariotti
