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IHA Partners with GMDC|Retail Tomorrow on Fall Strategic Meetings

Virtual sessions will promote industry connectivity, accelerate long-term business strategies, address opportunities for growth and vision for 2022 By Debbie Teschke ROSEMONT, IL — Leading retail industry trade associations Global Market Development Center (GMDC)|Retail Tomorrow and International Housewares Association (IHA) have partnered to facilitate GMDC|Retail…

IHA Launches HomePage News, The Home + Housewares Business Authority

ROSEMONT, ILL (July 13, 2021)—To provide the industry with an independent news and information platform, the International Housewares Association has launched HomePage News, the Home + Housewares Business Authority. HomePage News, launching this week with a dynamic B2B website for in-depth industry news and information, is the authoritative communication resource…

Sean Daly Joins IHA as Vice President, Member and Buyer Relations

By Debbie Teschke ROSEMONT, Ill. (July 9, 2021) – Sean Daly has joined the International Housewares Association as vice president, member and buyer relations. Daly has more than 25 years’ experience in the housewares industry, with an emphasis on global sales and marketing, which he honed while working for several IHA-member companies. Most recently Daly was a partner…

The Allure Of In-Store Shopping

By Peter Giannetti The data confirms consumers are enthusiastically embracing in-store shopping again. Some wonder, though, if the rush back to stores could end up short-lived novelty, a pent-up release by a reopening society that can’t resist the convenience of e-commerce that became more routine during the pandemic. With national retailers launching myriad…

An American-Made Way To Beat The Supply-Chain Heat

By Peter Giannetti Lasko Products, the West Chester, Pa.-based home environment appliance company, recently released a limited-edition, American-made box fan for Walmart.com in time for Fourth of July promotions and, even more opportunely, as a sweltering heat wave blasted much of the country. The patriotic marketing angle is natural for a company that for generations has…

The Employee Retention Credit (ERC) Explained

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act signed in March 2020 created a new Employee Retention Credit (ERC) for employers who: Had operations partially or fully suspended as a result of orders from a governmental authority due to Covid-19, orExperienced a decline in gross receipts by more than 50% in a quarter compared to the same quarter in…

All Facets of US Supply Chain in Turmoil

Finding container space is not the only problem facing US importers. Once a container arrives at the marine terminal to be off loaded, the shipper can expect a stack of new problems. Port congestion, chassis availability, truck power, and rail capacity are just a few of the issues preventing cargo from moving freely to US distribution centers. Port congestion has…

U.S. Retail Intelligence – June

June 28 – Albertsons’ Vivek Sankaran sizes up state of grocery post-pandemic FMI Midsummer session spotlights trends that will stick and those that might not. From: Supermarket News June 28 – Inside the Herman Miller x Knoll Merger Things are moving faster than expected. BOH looks at who’s in, who’s out, and the background of a deal that almost didn’t happen. From:…

When Business and Family Reunite

By Peter Giannetti Henry Nading, from Houston, hadn’t seen his parents, Art and Martha Nading, from Greensboro, N.C., (pictured above) in nearly a year and a half until a joyous reunion at this week’s Dallas Total Home & Gift Market. This moving story of a son reuniting with his parents after a stressful pandemic also happens to be a story of a housewares sales and…