As it became clearer in March that retailing, an already fickle business in the e-commerce age, was in for a new disruption of immeasurable enormity and consequence, it also became clearer vendor-buyer relations, already confrontational at times, were about to be tested like never before.
The 2020 National Hardware Show in Las Vegas, originally postponed from early May to September 1-3 as the COVID-19 pandemic escalated during the spring, has been cancelled as an in-person event for this year because of the continuing impact of the pandemic, according to Reed Exhibitions.
The Home Improvement eRetailer Summit has been rescheduled for March 7-9, 2021, from its previously scheduled date of October 7-9, 2020 in response to travel and public health uncertainties created by the spread of the coronavirus.
After nearly three months of working from home, it is a welcome relief to begin the first phase of a return to offices for the HomeWorld Business team.
Rosenthal & Rosenthal is a provider of financial services for the retail business, specializing in factoring, asset-based lending, purchase order financing and direct-to-consumer financing.
The need to pivot suddenly has marked much of the business world’s response to the COVID-19 crisis.
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Kroger’s recently released “Blueprint for Businesses,” a guide to help companies navigate safely through and past the COVID-19 crisis, leads with six words:
Joe Derochowski, vp and home industry adviser for The NPD Group, will deliver a webinar update on shifting consumer spending during the coronavirus pandemic.
Calls have been streaming in from industry executives seeking answers to questions that can’t be answered yet amid so much…
Calls have been streaming in from industry executives seeking answers to questions that can’t be answered yet amid so much uncertainty.
A swift restoration of lagging supply chains could loosen the flow of top-selling and new products in several housewares categories expected to become more important with more people confined to their homes during the health crisis.
Concerns among U.S. housewares suppliers and retailers about supply chain disruption out of China after the initial coronavirus outbreak have been surpassed by more urgent concerns closer to home about public health and safety and economic wellbeing.
Few people at the start of a promising 2020 could have imagined the U.S. anywhere close to a total societal…
NEW YORK— Concerns among U.S. housewares suppliers and retailers about supply chain disruption out of China after the initial coronavirus…
Few people at the start of a promising 2020 could have imagined the U.S. anywhere close to a total societal lockdown three months later.
The International Housewares Association, HomeWorld Business and NPD Group are collaborating on a series of webinars to deliver critical information for the home and housewares industry during this unprecedented time. The three sessions are free to attend.
The International Housewares Association said it has laid off three staff members, including vp Jon Jesse, as a cost-reducing measure in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Dallas Market Center, in announcing the cancellation of its March markets and April Design Week, confirmed that the summer Dallas Total Home & Gift Market remains scheduled to start June 24.
Reed Exhibitions has announced today that the National Hardware Show, originally scheduled for May 5-7 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, is postponed because of the COVID-19 virus outbreak. The show will be rescheduled for later this year in Las Vegas, according to Reed.