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IHA’s blog features informative posts written to keep the housewares industry educated and informed about key strategic issues and IHA member services.

Unearthing Your Customers’ Inner Designer

Unearthing your customers style will keep them shopping with you! If you encourage your customers to find their own style rather then telling them what to buy every time they walk in your door, then you are building a life-long relationship that is meaningful. This not only brings you satisfaction but also keeps your customers coming back! At a time when customers have…

Inspiring Innovation: An Interview with Jasmin Reese and Mobolaji Akintunde, Retail Branding and Design

By Vicki Matranga, Design Programs Coordinator Learn how to develop and launch the right products for the right customer—with the right methods! Be sure to attend some of the free executive-level educational sessions at the Innovation Theater. These programs will give you a fresh perspective as you walk the Show and will inspire, inform and improve your business. The four…

Inspiring Innovation: An Interview with Adrienne Weiss, Adrienne Weiss Corporation

Inspiring Innovation: A Conversation with Joanne Domeniconi, The Grommet, Abigail Kiefer, Red Clay, Kate Drane, Indiegogo, and Lisa Q. Fetterman, Nomiku

By Vicki Matranga, Design Programs Coordinator Learn how to develop and launch the right products for the right customer—with the right methods! Be sure to attend some of the free executive-level educational sessions at the Innovation Theater. These programs will give you a new perspective as you walk the Show and will inspire, inform and improve your business. The four…

Discover Design Sells Out With More than 100 Exhibitors of High-Design for the Home and Kitchen

Discover Design, a destination for buyers seeking unique products from high-design and innovative companies, is sold-out for the 2015 International Home + Housewares Show. Discover Design is a juried category and located in the Dine + Design Expo in the South Building. Among the 100+ exhibitors in the category, buyers will discover new companies including Bengt Ek Design,…

Inspiring Innovation: An Interview with Jens Bauerle and Mary Rose Gearon, Global Brand Vision

By Vicki Matranga, Design Programs Coordinator Learn how to develop and launch the right products for the right customer—with the right methods! Be sure to attend some of the free executive-level educational sessions at the Innovation Theater. These programs will give you a new perspective as you walk the Show and will inspire, inform and improve your business. The four…

Inspiring Innovation: An Interview with Richard Babick and Janine Michalek, Design Research

Oasis of Style

Not many people could set up a homewares and lifestyle store in a barn, in a field “in the middle of nowhere,” and make an ongoing success of it. But inside the welcoming, stone facade of a 110-year old barn in Rusko, Finland, there is a retail store to which people from far and wide are drawn. Loviisan Aitta has been so successful that the owner Helena Aho recently opened a…