The World’s Leading Home + Housewares Show
March 17–19, 2024 | McCormick Place | Chicago, IL
The Inspired Home Show® and the International Housewares Association (IHA), the global sponsors and organizers of the IHA Global Innovation Awards (gia) program, announced the Global Honorees for the gia Top Window Awards during the “The Window Stage in The Digital Age / gia Top Window Award” presentation by gia expert juror Anne Kong.
The International Housewares Association (IHA) is accepting topic proposals for education sessions during The Inspired Home Show 2024,
To help support the people of Maui after the recent wildfire tragedy, the Housewares Charity Foundation (HCF) has established a fund for donations and will match contributions dollar-for-dollar up to $100,000 in total. Donations will go to support the Maui Strong Fund and Team Rubicon Disaster Relief.
HomePage News introduces the InSight™ Trend Index, an exclusive digital guide that explores emerging and enduring home and housewares trends through the products and innovations that embody them.
New IHA Market Watch Report Says Consumer-Centric Approach Is Key to Home + Housewares Success
The Inspired Home Show® 2024, next March in Chicago, will undergo several exciting changes. After carefully considering feedback received from two industry-wide surveys and four special committees made up of both exhibitors and retailers, the IHA Board of Directors has decided to reduce the overall length and to optimize the Show layout to create the most vibrant, productive and efficient trade show experience possible for the industry. The Show will now open on Sunday, March 17 and close on Tuesday, March 19.
Martin M. Pegler was a professor for thirty years in the Display & Exhibit Design Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. A leading expert in his field for over 60 years, Martin hosted seminars in the United States as well as in Latin America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. He authored over 80 books and his textbook, Visual Merchandising and Display, is used in universities around the world. Martin was presented with a lifetime achievement award by PAVE, the Planning & Visual Education Partnership that supports retail design education for students and educators. He was also inducted into the Visual Merchandising and Display Industries’ Hall of Fame.
Martin worked with gia from the beginning of the gia program in 2000, as an Expert Juror, and since 2016 as an honorary member of the gia Expert Jury. To honor Martin’s leadership role with the program, the Top Window Award was renamed the “Martin M. Pegler Award for Excellence in Visual Merchandising” in 2008. Also that year, he was presented with an honorary gia Award for Lifetime Achievement.