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.
The turbulence of a mainstream retailing shakeup that intensified during the first half of 2017 hasn’t stopped the housewares industry from doing what it does best… introducing products designed to improve daily living.
Welcome to HomeWorld’s ninth annual “Made in the U.S.A.” issue (July 3, 2017).
Some of you might know we have a sister publication, Hotel Business, covering the hospitality market.
Housewares veterans like to remind everyone how the category historically has been a dependable business, prone to neither steep gains during economic booms nor steep declines during downturns.
In nominating HomeWorld’s 2017 Retailer of the Year (see the May 22 issue) after a shaky end to 2016 and beginning to this year for many operators, one particularly intriguing example of resilience was hard to ignore: Walmart U.S.