The Illinois SBDC International Trade Center at the Industrial Council of Nearwest Chicago (ICNC) is pleased to partner with the Center for International Regulatory Assistance (CITRA) at Duquesne University to present a day-long workshop at ICNC. Facilitated by CITRA experts and the Illinois SBDC International Trade Center at ICNC, the workshop will cover information on the…
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IHA’s New Inspired Home Website Announces Editorial Calendar
Features on Halloween and fall-themed entertaining, food preparation and storage; personal care and grooming; home organization; closet and clothes care; garage organization and pet care will launch the new Inspired Home website created by the International Housewares Association. The website, www.IHAInspiredHome.org, is part of IHA’s consumer-focused initiative that will…
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Every year, the International Housewares Association (IHA) welcomes retailers deemed the best in their home country to Chicago, where they compete on a global stage in the IHA Global Innovation Awards 2014 (gia) program. This year, there were 23 national gia winners from 22 countries, all representing the very top of home and housewares retailing. The gia Global Innovation…
CONTINUE READINGDesign Stars – Winners of the 2014 gia Design Awards
Discover Design, the premier design destination at the International Home + Housewares Show, offers a collection of more than 100 companies showcasing the latest designs found in housewares. Exhibitors are based on recommendations from and approval by the retail and design community. Since 2011, exhibitors in Discover Design have been in contention for gia Global Innovation…
CONTINUE READINGIntroducing the 2014 gia Global Honorees
This year’s IHA Global Innovation Awards (gia) awards had such a wonderful group of winners and the panel of editor judges and expert jurors found it so difficult to choose just five top retail stores from the 23 regional 2014 gia global honorees that they had to choose six instead. The six top stores declared 2014 gia Global Honorees were: TheSuperCool from Australia, K…
CONTINUE READINGInternational Housewares Association Connects Directly with Consumers
New “Inspired Home” Initiative Targets Consumers, Aims to Motivate Their Housewares Purchasing Decisions The International Housewares Association (IHA) announced today that this fall it will launch a new consumer engagement initiative, called Inspired Home, designed to directly market its members’ housewares products to consumers. Since its beginnings in 1938, IHA has…
CONTINUE READINGSurviving Tourist Season Travel
Chris McGinnis, Editor of TravelSkills.com comments on how to manage business travel in the thick of tourist season travel in this CNN Video. http://travelskills.com/2014/05/21/surviving-tourist-season-airport-chris-cnn/ Source: TravelSkills.com…
CONTINUE READINGEuropean Retail: Schwarz Group – Implications with Carrefour & Tesco
In the UK, the Guardian is quoting a new Planet Retail report as saying "the company behind the Lidl supermarket chain is set to become western Europe's biggest grocery retailer by 2018 as discounters become mainstream across the continent.": According to the story, the report predicts "that the privately owned Schwarz Group, which is controlled by a German multibillionaire…
CONTINUE READINGCIT – Growth Financing Opportunities for Housewares Companies
With globalization, most companies now compete on an international basis. As brands gain acceptance, companies seek to grow their revenues by pursuing growth on two fronts – domestically and globally. The International Housewares Association has had several forums about international sales in the housewares industry. The need to ship to customers on open credit terms has…
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