
According to Mark Jeffries, business influence starts with perceptive communication.
According to Mark Jeffries, business influence starts with perceptive communication.
I had the privilege again of opening the annual Chief Housewares Executive SuperSession (CHESS) by moderating the Housewares Hot Seat panel discussion.
What a difference 30 years makes.
HomeWorld’s People To Watch selections each year (August 19 issue) typically include executives in newly appointed leadership posts. But never in the 14-year history of this special annual edition has the group been filled with so many recently installed heads of major housewares and retailing operations.
Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe are widely credited with coining the term Millennials in 1987. That’s right, 32 years ago.
HomeWorld Business salutes influential housewares buyers and merchandise managers in this annual Impact Merchants edition (July 22, 2019).
The summer gift-and-housewares trade show circuit is in full swing, presenting, as these mid-term shows typically do, a valuable first chance for exhibitors and retailers to begin mapping out the next year.
The annual HomeWorld Business Health & Wellness Report in the June 24, 2019, issue underscores an evolving consumer state of mind and the brimming opportunity for housewares suppliers and retailers that have responded by placing healthy living and wellness at the heart of their marketing and merchandising execution.
We’re approaching the midway point of a year that started with so much forward momentum. But after the uneven retail sales results released the past few weeks, uneasiness is setting in as the housewares business speeds toward the second half.
Target, the 2019 HomeWorld Business Retailer of the Year (see the May 27 issue), was the first mass retailer I could claim as my own.
Hubert Joly was an unconventional pick to lead Best Buy in 2012. Skeptics wondered then how a former hotel chief with no retail experience could stop Best Buy’s spiral toward oblivion.
The 2019 National Hardware Show in Las Vegas (May 7-9) marks the 14th year for HomeWorld Business as the show’s official housewares publication. The partnership reflects the commitment by the show to keep housewares in the home improvement retailing spotlight.
The pending sale of IdeaVillage’s Flawless and Finishing Touch hair removal brands to Church & Dwight for what could be nearly $1 billion requires some historical perspective.
Amazon sparked panic during the International Home + Housewares Show when several exhibitors had their Amazon Vendor Central codes deactivated and orders halted without notice.
HomeWorld Business has learned that Walmart recently told some vendors it might drop items from its e-commerce platform that don’t have at least a four-star rating.
The Housewares Charity Foundation celebrates its 22 years of philanthropy this evening at the Navy Pier when it honors Wayfair co-founders Niraj Shah and Steve Conine; Ulta Beauty CEO Mary Dillon; and Libbey Chairman and CEO William Foley.
The International Home + Housewares Show honored 30 home and housewares retailers from 29 countries for their merchandising excellence during last night’s annual gia gala.
“Nobody shops in stores anymore.” How many of you get irritated when you hear that?
It didn’t take long, traveling through a full slate of year-opening trade shows and conferences, to get schooled on the housewares business outlook for the year.
This time of year, as the housewares industry turns from Frankfurt’s Ambiente toward the International Home + Housewares Show, the race to discover the latest, greatest new products shifts into higher gear.