The Show Blog
What’s New, Next and Moving The Market
Retail, with Love and Sugar on Top
As well as celebrating 20 years in business in 2023, U.S. retailer A. Dodson’s became a Global Innovation Awards (gia) Global Honoree in Chicago, and showed the world how you don’t have to be big retail chain to be a winner.
Exciting Changes to The Inspired Home Show 2024
The Inspired Home Show® 2024, next March in Chicago, will undergo several exciting changes. After carefully considering feedback received from two industry-wide surveys and four special committees made up of both exhibitors and retailers, the IHA Board of Directors has decided to reduce the overall length and to optimize the Show layout to create the most vibrant, productive and efficient trade show experience possible for the industry. The Show will now open on Sunday, March 17 and close on Tuesday, March 19.
Bold Foods and Flavors Feed a Need for Newness and Adventure
For so many consumers faced with leaner budgets and financial concerns, cooking with bold foods and flavors is helping them feed a need for newness and adventure.
Multisensory Magic and the Gift of Memories
Ambiente Living in Colombia is a true retail success story that started out two decades ago in the garage of an entrepreneur who understands the priceless nature of memories.
Landmark: Setting the Stage for Life
You can’t really call the Argentinian gia Global Honoree Tiendas Landmark a store. It is a theatrical universe where guests go to explore different lands and shopping is just one part of the exciting journey.
Consumers Return to In-Person Shopping
As consumers adjust to a post-pandemic world, many are returning to in-person shopping. But it’s important to remember these shoppers are dramatically different from just a few years ago.
A Clean Home Feels Good
When it comes to connecting with consumers on cleaning, in spring or any season, that end result is key. How does it look? And most important, how does a clean home feel? Given how critical wellness—especially mental and emotional wellness—is to consumers today, it’s an important connection to make.
Home Organizing as Self-Care
It’s a prime opportunity to engage with consumers year-round on storage and home organizing solutions that may help improve their sense of wellbeing.
In The News
The Inspired Home Show attracts a wide variety of top-tier consumer, trade, internet and social media professionals each year. Whether you’re an exhibitor, buyer or media professional, check out a sample of recent coverage to see how forward-thinkers are making headlines at the Show – and how you can be part of it all next year.
