The World’s Leading Home + Housewares Show
March 2–4, 2025 | McCormick Place | Chicago, IL
QVC and the Housewares Charity Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the home and housewares industry, have joined forces once again to present Living for Giving, a cross-platform shopping event to support Feeding America.
Two critical International Housewares Association educational summits, CHESS: Chief Housewares Executive SuperSession and the International Business Council’s Global Forum, will be held in-person this fall along with a new event by the recently formed Housewares Credit Group (HCG) under the banner Housewares Homecoming.
Join HomePage News and IHA on May 3 for a free webinar exploring the 2022 Consumer Outlook Survey results—with key findings and commentary on consumer purchase expectations across 15 home + housewares categories, including anticipated price points and channels for purchase.
The first annual HomePage News Consumer Outlook Survey, commissioned in partnership with the International Housewares Association, was fielded recently to help suppliers and retailers identify home and housewares opportunities in the coming year.
Consumers are ready to emerge, experience new things, express themselves in new ways and explore the changed world around them, said color expert Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, in her annual keynote address at The Inspired Home Show 2022.
After two years of economic and social uncertainty, the consumer value equation is changing quickly and is very fluid across generations, said Tom Mirabile, principal of Springboard Futures, and Leigh Ann Schwarzkopf, founder of Project Partners Network, in a keynote address at The Inspired Home Show 2022.
Martin M. Pegler was a professor for thirty years in the Display & Exhibit Design Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. A leading expert in his field for over 60 years, Martin hosted seminars in the United States as well as in Latin America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. He authored over 80 books and his textbook, Visual Merchandising and Display, is used in universities around the world. Martin was presented with a lifetime achievement award by PAVE, the Planning & Visual Education Partnership that supports retail design education for students and educators. He was also inducted into the Visual Merchandising and Display Industries’ Hall of Fame.
Martin worked with gia from the beginning of the gia program in 2000, as an Expert Juror, and since 2016 as an honorary member of the gia Expert Jury. To honor Martin’s leadership role with the program, the Top Window Award was renamed the “Martin M. Pegler Award for Excellence in Visual Merchandising” in 2008. Also that year, he was presented with an honorary gia Award for Lifetime Achievement.