International Home + Housewares Show

Housewares Charity Foundation to Honor Three Industry Leaders

Tony Mantuano, James Beard Chefs to Create Dinner, Culinary Tastings The Housewares Charity Foundation has announced its third honoree for 2014. David Ortiz, vice president/divisional merchandise manager for cooking/dining at Walmart U.S., will receive the Lifetime Humanitarian Award during the 17th Annual Housewares Charity Foundation (HCF) Gala on Monday evening, March 17,…

Show Seminar Speakers To Share Insights on Color, Consumers and The Path to Purchase

Experts whose ideas influence what consumers see on store shelves months and even years later will take center stage at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show as part of the educational sessions that inform attendees where the leading edge lies. Presenting these sessions, which are held in the Grand Ballroom/S100 of the South Building and are free to all Show attendees,…

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…

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,…

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…

Discovering Design: Meet blomus

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. blomus is…

Innovation Insights: An Interview with Joanne Domeniconi, The Grommet

By Vicki Matranga, Design Programs + Services 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 programs that will take place in the Innovation Theater in the…