IHA Connect FALL 2022 runs Oct. 11-13. with exclusive, in-depth content designed to bring the housewares industry together around education and inspiration.
Connect FALL 2022 session topics include a look at evolving consumer aspirations; housewares opportunities during inflationary times; an update on the impact of PFAS chemical use in housewares; the intersection of food, housewares and lifestyle trends; a preview of exclusive IHA/HomePage News consumer research on Occasions and At-Home Entertaining; the evolution of visual merchandising; and the announcement of the Global Innovation Award (gia) Top Window Award.
Read more about each day’s sessions below:
Enhancing Your Visual Toolbox
As stores and services continue to evolve, so must retail design and its techniques, visual merchandising expert Anne Kong said during her Connect FALL session, “Enhancing Your Visual Toolbox.”
IHA Occasions and At-Home Entertaining Surveys: Housewares Joins the Celebration
The final session of Connect FALL 2022 featured an overview of the IHA Occasions Report 2023, offering key findings, conclusions and changes from the 2022 survey. Presenters Leana Salamah, vice president, Marketing at IHA, and Peter Giannetti, editor-in-chief of HomePage News, also previewed results from an IHA consumer survey on at-home entertaining to be released later this year
Growth at the Intersection of Food, Housewares and Lifestyle Trends
Trend forecasters like to talk about things that influence an industry including lifestyle, food & beverage, economy, cohorts and generations, décor and life stage. When these things start to form a pattern, they showcase a trend.
PFAS Chemicals and Housewares: Answering the Critical Questions
“If your product comes into contact with food, you’re part of this,” said Fran Groesbeck, managing director of the Cookware and Bakeware Alliance at the beginning of a panel about PFAS chemicals and housewares on Wednesday. Groesbeck noted that PFAS legislation is an important and growing issue and no longer just focuses on nonstick cookware.
IHA Announces 2022 Global Honorees for gia Top Window Awards
The Inspired Home Show and the International Housewares Association (IHA), the global sponsors and organizers of the IHA Global Innovation Awards (gia) program, announced the Global Honorees for the gia Top Window Awards during the “Enhance Your Visual Toolbox / gia Top Window Award” presentation by gia expert juror Anne Kong earlier today during Connect FALL.
Never Say Normal: Navigating Change and Enabling Growth in the Modern Marketplace
A tote bag with the saying “Nobody’s Normal” was the inspiration for Tom Mirabile’s Connect FALL session on Tuesday. “Everyone who saw the bag said, ‘yep, that’s right.’ These are the times we are in and nobody is normal,” said Mirabile, principal of Springboard Futures and IHA’s consumer trends analyst.
Growth Opportunities in Inflationary Times
With a recession and inflation looming on the minds of many companies and consumers, Joe Derochowski, vp and home industry advisor from The NPD Group, discussed where consumers are likely to spend over the next year and how companies can be ready to meet their needs during IHA’s 2022 Connect FALL virtual event.
