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

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: 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…

Former Presidential Nominee Mitt Romney to Headline Annual Industry Breakfast at 2015 International Home + Housewares Show

Former governor and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will be the featured speaker during the annual Industry Breakfast at the 2015 International Home + Housewares Show. The breakfast begins at 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, March 10 in the South Building, Level 1, Room S100/Grand Ballroom. Romney recently announced that he would not run for president in 2016. Widely praised for…

Inspiring Innovation: An Interview with Kent Panther, Wray Ward

Housewares Charity Foundation Reaches New Heights at 2015 Gala: Industry Leaders Baker and Kelley to Receive Honors

Richard Baker, governor and executive chairman, Hudson’s Bay Company, and Brian Kelley, president and CEO, Keurig Green Mountain, Inc., will be honored by the Housewares Charity Foundation (HCF) during its 18thAnnual Housewares Charity Foundation Gala on Monday evening, March 9, during the 2015 International Home + Housewares Show in Chicago. Baker and Kelley will receive…