The World’s Leading Home + Housewares Show
March 17–19, 2024 | McCormick Place | Chicago, IL
Consumers increasingly are looking for companies to help make their communities and the world a better place through social responsibility, which can include philanthropy, ethical business practices and economic development.
Consumers are increasingly looking for sustainable solutions for their homes, and they’re turning to retailers and brand companies to take the lead on environmental responsibility.
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.
For so many consumers faced with leaner budgets and financial concerns, cooking with bold foods and flavors is helping them feed a need for newness and adventure.
As consumers adjust to a post-pandemic world, many are returning to in-person shopping. But it’s important to remember these shoppers are dramatically different from just a few years ago.
When it comes to connecting with consumers on cleaning, in spring or any season, that end result is key. How does it look? And most important, how does a clean home feel? Given how critical wellness—especially mental and emotional wellness—is to consumers today, it’s an important connection to make.
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.