International Home + Housewares Show

Trisha Yearwood, Rick Bayless, Ming Tsai Headline Cooking Theater Line-up at 2016 Show

Country singer Trisha Yearwood, Top Chef Masters champion Rick Bayless and James Beard Award winner Ming Tsai will be will be part of the line-up of celebrity chefs appearing in the Cooking Theater at the 2016 International Home + Housewares Show, March 5-8 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. Also appearing will be Rose Levy Beranbaum, cookbook author, blogger and James Beard…

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Book your hotel room in the official Show block between now and February 20, 2015 to be entered for a chance to win a $100 gift card to one of our partner restaurants. Multiple winners will be rewarded. Book Your Hotel Room Winners will be notified by February 25, 2015. Click here for IHA's promotional terms. No purchase necessary. To participate without booking hotel rooms,…

International 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…

Discover Design: A Judge’s View of 2014 – Meet Terri Winter

Retailers and media looking for trend-setting, high-design products at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show headed for Discover Design in South Building. The premier design destination at the Show, Discover Design hosted more than 100 exhibitors that presented distinctive products in the Tabletop, Gift and Home Décor categories. The Show also introduced 10 emerging…

Leatrice Eiseman Explores Color Trends, Previews 2015 Palettes at International Home + Housewares Show

Radiant Orchid is the Pantone Color of the Year, Leatrice (Lee) Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, told an audience today at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show. “It’s a beautiful color,” Eiseman said. “The inspiration for it is a harmony of fuchsia and pink undertones, like a gorgeous sunset. It’s a hue that sparks the imagination.…

Lifestyle Guru Tom Mirabile Reveals the Top Housewares Trends for 2014

Housewares manufacturers need to adapt, inspire and motivate in order to have success with today’s ever changing consumer, IHA’s lifestyle trend forecaster Tom Mirabile said today at the 2014 International Home + Housewares Show. He explained how to do so during his early morning seminar, “Top Trends for 2014The New Normal: How to Survive and Thrive in our Erratic…

Five Minute Interview with Celebrity Chef Michelle Bernstein

Michelle Bernstein is always on the go. A former ballerina and James Beard Award winner, the Miami native is a successful restaurateur, celebrity chef, cookbook author, regular judge on Bravo’s Top Chef, and host of the PBS weekly series Check Please! She battled celebrity chef Bobby Flay with gusto on Iron Chef America and won. The Show caught up with her before her…

Designer + Kickstarter = Entrepreneur: How to Launch A Company with Kickstarter

One of the more dynamic and attention grabbing ways to develop and market new products today is Kickstarter, a web-based home that funds creative products including films, games, art, design, technology and, yes, housewares. Three entrepreneurs who raised funds on Kickstarter for their products – silicone baking sheets with the accent on design and functionality, an…

Two Fat Pigs in the Python

The Baby Boomers, the large population growth that began after World War II, has long been known as the “pig in the python”—an image depicting the pig (the huge, sharp population growth) swallowed by the python (the world) and moving through it gradually, having an enormous impact on consumer needs, preferences and spending. Now there’s another pig: Millennials. Put the two…