All Posts

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

Social Media Services Make it Easy to Follow Show Events, Find Hot Products

This year attendees at the International Home + Housewares Show can stay in the loop on what is happening at the Show much easier through an expanded array of social media access. From live Twitter feeds to Facebook postings and the IHA blog, attendees can stay up-to-date on events and the newest products and trends even if they don’t stay all four Show days. And planning your…

Discover Design: Meet the Judges – Mary Rose Gearon and Jens Bauerle

Retailers and media looking for trend-setting, high-design products at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show head for Discover Design in South Building. The inspiring Discover Design Gallery, accessible to buyers and media, features products submitted for the Global Innovation Award (gia) for Design. Specialty retailers, editors at influential websites and print…

Discovering Design: Meet Lehmann Glass

Get to know the people behind the stylish products that will appear at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show in Discover Design. Our conversations with exhibitors give you a glimpse of the inspirations, influences and ideas that go into creating the exciting products that you’ll see in March at McCormick Place. Today we are speaking with Mateo Bouatta, export manager…

Casa Palacio – A Palatial Approach

Casa Palacio Santa Fe has a seriously impressive lineage, to its seriously great sense of style. The store’s parent company, department store El Palacio de Hierro, opened its doors in 1888 and has expanded to now operate 13 stores. Casa Palacio is the high-end spin-off store, stocking everything from furniture to designer objects, linen, tableware and fashion. They also offer…

Discover Design: Meet the Judges – Lu Wendel Lyndon

Vicki Matranga, Design Programs Coordinator Retailers and media looking for trend-setting, high-design products at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show head for Discover Design in South Building. The inspiring Discover Design Gallery, accessible to buyers and media, features products submitted for the Global Innovation Award (gia) for Design. Specialty retailers,…

Discovering Design: Meet govino

By Vicki Matranga, Design Programs Coordinator Get to know the people behind the stylish products that will appear at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show in Discover Design. Our conversations with exhibitors give you a glimpse of the inspirations, influences and ideas that go into creating the exciting products that you’ll see in March at McCormick Place. Today…

Innovation Insights: An Interview with Jason Puckett, SocialKaty

By Vicki Matranga, Design Program Coordinator Learn how to develop and launch the right products for the right customer—with the right methods! The four days of the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show will be packed with events as well as educational sessions. In these final weeks before the Show, we preview presentations that will take place in the Innovation Theater…

Housewares Marketing: Keeping Up with the Changing Trends

The home and housewares industry knows all about trends, changing styles and evolving technology. As much as those concepts apply to products and brands, they hold just as true for marketing practices. For brands to remain competitive and compelling, they not only need to keep their products and technology imaginative and functional, they also have to market those products…