The U.S. housewares business enters this week expecting reports of a robust Thanksgiving weekend, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season… even though the season now shifts into full gear the day after Halloween.
Amy Herman teaches people how to see and say what matters… using art.
Shed a tear for Sears Holdings if you must. Despite any flicker of post-Chapter 11 hope Eddie Lampert tries to peddle, all that seems left of this story— even if in some way the Sears and Kmart brands are salvaged or reincarnated— is for the plug to be pulled on what is left of the business as we know it and the remnants of its assets to be redistributed.
The housewares industry has reached that all-important time of year where it soon will learn which of the latest innovations will be rewarded with sales success that can last well beyond the holiday season.
The 20th Annual HomeWorld Forecast arrives with this week’s October 1 edition.
The annual HomeWorld Business Top 100 Housewares Retailers edition (September 10) arrives on the verge of what, by many accounts, is a promising holiday retail season.
The HomeWorld Players, our annual assembly of people to watch in housewares (August 20, 2018, issue), is always an eclectic group, highlighting the wide-ranging experience, talents and ideas that make up a business otherwise unified by common challenges and opportunities.
HomeWorld’s annual Generational Marketing Report in the August 6 issue examines how downsizing of American homes is reshaping housewares design and marketing.
HomeWorld Business presents its 2018 Impact Merchants in the July 23 issue, featuring profiles of top retail buyers and managers nominated by housewares suppliers for their merchandising proficiency.
HomeWorld’s annual Made in the U.S.A. edition (July 9, 2018) marks the 10th year we’ve dedicated an entire issue to an American housewares manufacturing renaissance.
You can’t read through an issue of HomeWorld Business without encountering references to health and wellness.
The retail housewares year is played in halves, like college basketball games.
HomeWorld’s annual Retailer of the Year selection (see the May 28 issue) typically prioritizes significant housewares development as a top consideration.
Let me start by admitting I’m party to the proliferation of certain buzzwords dominating retailing talk these days.
The National Hardware Show hits Las Vegas May 8 riding a robust home improvement market validated by the strong performance by key retailers in the segment.
Putting political leanings aside, there’s probably more than a few housewares suppliers finding pleasure in the President’s recent Twitter rampage against Amazon.
The ability to find truly exceptional products in what can seem like a sea of options is what historically has separated truly exceptional merchants.
It might surprise you that news services historically have kept files of pre-written obituaries for famous people that need only be topped off when that inevitable day arrives.
We live and work in an era of great division. It seems harder than ever to get people to come together with so much societal, political or even competitive tension pulling them apart.
Day two (March 11) of the 2018 International Home + Housewares Show should see a busy slate of exhibitor and buyer meetings.