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The Online Show Planner Makes The Home + Housewares Show More Productive

Author: Marie Kulik, Manager, Exhibitor Business Development, IHA With millions of online apps all claiming to make your life easier, we’ve got one that truly lives up to the hype. The Online Show Planner is a simple search/planning tool for the International Home + Housewares Show. Whether you're an exhibitor trying to generate new business, a buyer looking new products or…

Housewares Charity Foundation: Uniting the Industry, Honoring Its Leaders

Author: Judy Colitz, Manager, Special Events & Executive Services, IHA If you have never attended the Housewares Charity Foundation (HCF) Gala on Monday evening of the International Home + Housewares Show, you are missing not only the opportunity to make a difference for breast cancer research, but also an extremely enjoyable charity event and dinner. Nowhere else will…

Exhibitors Preview Housewares Products, Trends for the News Media

Author: Perry Reynolds The New Year started off on a high note for the 60 exhibitors who participated in IHA’s 2010 International Home + Housewares Show Media Preview January 7 in New York City. More than 60 consumer and trade editors came to see more than 150 housewares products that will be making their debut at the International Home + Housewares Show in March. Consumer…

A look ahead at 2010…

Author: Phillip Brandl, President, IHA As 2009 comes to a close and 2010 emerges, the International Housewares Association would like to wish everyone a very prosperous New Year! To fulfill IHA’s mission to connect, inform, support and enable our members to lead in the global marketplace, we are working hard to provide beneficial events and services to more than 1,800…

Ring in the New Year with cost savings!

Author: Sharon Janota, Manager, Trade Show Operations, IHA Within the last two years, the need to reduce Trade Show-related costs has been a frequent conversation with housewares industry exhibitors. Although exhibitor cost reduction has always been a top priority for the International Housewares Association (IHA), we sat down and strategized new ways to reduce your total…

Happy Holidays!

Author: Robert Trudeau, Chairman of the Board 2009 – 2010, IHA,Chairman, Trudeau Corporation As the year draws to a close, I would like to wish the best and most prosperous of holiday seasons to our entire industry. We send our best to our fellow suppliers who have persevered and driven innovation in the face of a difficult year, to our retailer partners around the world who…

India’s Retail Market Emerges

Author: Derek Miller, Vice President, International, IHA India’s retail market continues to develop with shopping malls, department stores and hypermarkets being opened on a regular basis. Major corporations are aggressively pushing ahead into the retail sector in order to build retail brands and to capture market share through new concepts, formats and joint…

Celebrating Design & Innovation

Author: Peter Giannetti, HomeWorld Business The 65 finalists in the 7th Annual Housewares Design Awards are set. A special celebration of their innovation will be held during a luncheon on February 3, 2010, at the New York Marriott Marquis. The Housewares Design Awards competition recognizes the creative efforts of the 65 finalists and this year’s nearly 300 entrants who…

Build It AND Market It and They Will Come…

Author: Marie Kulik, Manager, Exhibitor Business Development, IHA Building a booth and waiting for buyers to appear isn’t necessarily a formula for success. A successful trade show is closely tied to your pre-Show marketing, which creates excitement and drives traffic. Eighty-nine percent of the retailers who attend the International Home + Housewares Show are in search of…