IHA’s Miller Outlines New Exhibitors, Categories for 2025 Inspired Home Show

Derek Miller, president and CEO of the International Housewares Association (IHA), in a letter to the home, housewares and travel goods industries, provided an update on IHA developments and plans for The Inspired Home Show 2025, set for March 2-4 in Chicago.

PwC: Holiday Spending Plans Influenced by Income, Inflation and Generation

PwC’s 2024 Holiday Outlook survey revealed 59% of respondents believe inflation will influence their holiday purchasing this year. Even so, consumers indicated they would spend about 7% more for their year-end festivities for an average of $1,638.

READ: Coalition Letter Signed by IHA, Shippers Association Implores Biden To End Port Strike

The International Housewares Association and International Housewares Shippers Association are part of a coalition of business groups that sent a letter today to President Biden urging immediate action by the White House to end the strike that has shut down East Coast and Gulf Coast container ports.

Container Store Adopts Limited-Duration Stockholder Rights Plan

Container Store Adopts Limited-Duration Stockholder Rights Plan

The Container Store Group has adopted a limited duration stockholder rights plan, which is effective immediately and is scheduled to expire on October 7, 2025,  in response to the rapid and significant accumulation of the company’s common stock by a single unidentified stock owner and to protect value for all shareholders, it stated.

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HomePage News InSight Trend Index 2024/25: Future Focus

The fourth portfolio in the HomePage News InSight™ Trend Index 2024/25 examines Future Focus: products that reflect consumer awareness and collective conscience.

2024/25 InSight™ Trend Index

The HomePage News InSight Trend Index 2024/25 is the second annual series of digital portfolios providing a guide to emerging and enduring housewares trends through the products and innovations that embody them.

This comprehensive series is produced and presented in partnership with Springboard Futures and its founder and industry trend authority Tom Mirabile, along with creative director Dawn Evans, who also serves as director of marketing for the International Housewares Association.

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2023/24 InSight™ Trend Index

The HomePage News InSight™ Trend Index 2023/24 is an exclusive digital guide that explores emerging and enduring home and housewares trends through the products and innovations that embody them.

This comprehensive series is produced and presented by HomePage News in partnership with Springboard Futures and its founder and industry trend authority Tom Mirabile, along with creative director Dawn Evans, who also serves as director of marketing from the International Housewares Association.

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The 2024 IHA Occasions and At-Home Entertaining Surveys (in partnership with market researcher Morning Consult) underscore the product development, marketing and sales opportunities available to the home and housewares industry by serving key life moments and increasing frequency of at-home entertaining for all sorts of get-togethers.

2024 Occasions & At-Home Entertaining Reports

The 2024 IHA Occasions and At-Home Entertaining Surveys (in partnership with market researcher Morning Consult) underscore the product development, marketing and sales opportunities available to the home and housewares industry by serving key life moments and increasing frequency of at-home entertaining for all sorts of get-togethers.

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2023Occasions Report: Housewares Joins The Celebration

The 2023 International Housewares Association (IHA) Occasions Report provides insight into how consumers are once again embracing key life moments and plan to in the year ahead and beyond.

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HomePage News Ranks Top 50 Housewares Retailers of 2023

The HomePage News Top 50 Housewares Retailers report demonstrates that while the biggest retailers command the majority of housewares sales, the variety of companies that generate significant revenues in the sector is noteworthy.

2023 Top 50 Housewares Retailers

The HomePage News Top 50 Housewares Retailers report demonstrates that while the biggest retailers command the majority of housewares sales, the variety of companies that generate significant revenues in the sector is noteworthy.

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2022 Top 50 Housewares Retailers

The HomePage News Top 50 Housewares Retailers ranking underscores the strength of the top 10 operators in the United States but does indicate that, although the biggest dominate, opportunity exists elsewhere as well.

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2021 Top 50 Housewares Retailers

The HomePage News Top 50 Housewares Retailers ranking demonstrates the dominance of the top 10 store runners in the United States. It also reveals the opportunity for those retailers, and anyone working with them, that can develop a niche in the housewares market.

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The HomePage News 2023 Consumer Outlook Survey, commissioned in partnership with the International Housewares Association, was fielded recently to help suppliers and retailers pinpoint home and housewares opportunities in the coming year. This exclusive report reveals housewares purchase intent across core categories.

2023 Consumer Outlook Report

The HomePage News 2023 Consumer Outlook Survey, commissioned in partnership with the International Housewares Association, was fielded recently to help suppliers and retailers pinpoint home and housewares opportunities in the coming year. This exclusive report reveals housewares purchase intent across core categories.

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2022 Consumer Outlook Report

Sizing Up Housewares Purchase Intent Category By Category

The first annual HomePage News Consumer Outlook Survey, commissioned in partnership with the International Housewares Association, was fielded recently to help suppliers and retailers pinpoint home and housewares opportunities in the coming year.

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