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.
The 2018 International Home + Housewares Shows arrives at what by many measures should be an encouraging time for the home and housewares business.
I was honored to preside over the presentation of the 2018 Housewares Design Awards during the recent Winter Las Vegas Market.
Welcome to the age of disruption.
Sustainability just took on a new meaning for 2018.
The announcement last month that Overstock.com wants to sell its retail business should surprise few.
Another year is almost in the books, and, oh, what a year it was.
Need a feel-good story about brick-and-mortar housewares retailing as we head into the heart of the holiday shopping season?
The holiday retail predictions are in.
David Houle is a futurist, which means it’s his job to look forward, not backward. He doesn’t have to deal…
After being disrupted by Amazon for long enough, it seems Kohl’s hopes to get in on the disrupting.
The September 25, 2017, issue of HomeWorld Business is paired with the 19th annual HomeWorld Forecast, our exclusive consumer survey of housewares shopping preferences and expectations.
I have used this space often in recent years to encourage and endorse the housewares industry’s resolve to overcome challenge after challenge in a precarious consumer and retail marketplace.
HomeWorld Business was an early adopter in identifying the unique marketing challenge and opportunity for housewares that is the Millennial generation.
I’ve been privileged the past several years to help kick off the annual Chief Housewares Executive SuperSession (CHESS) by moderating a panel of industry leaders exploring some of the day’s most pressing issues.
The HomeWorld Business team lately has received several press announcements on housewares companies celebrating anniversaries.