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The Healing Power of Nature – Inside Our Homes
Nature-inspired colors, materials and designs were seen at The Inspired Home Show® and are one of the biggest trends for home and housewares trends in 2025.
Passion for Pets Grows and Evolves
Explore how rising pet ownership trends are reshaping home life and retail, with insights from The Inspired Home Show 2025 and APPA.
The Joy Economy: In Search of Good Vibes at Home
It’s prime time for housewares retailers and suppliers to lean into products, marketing and merchandising that spark positive emotions and delight.
Consumers Return to In-Person Shopping
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.
A Clean Home Feels Good
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.
Home Organizing as Self-Care
It’s a prime opportunity to engage with consumers year-round on storage and home organizing solutions that may help improve their sense of wellbeing.
Putting Some ‘Spring’ in Your Customers’ Spaces
It’s natural for consumers to look for ways to breathe new life into their homes when it comes time for spring. Help your customers refresh and update their living spaces this season.
Supporting the Need to Eat at Home
As shoppers continue to face higher grocery prices, they’re using multiple tactics to reduce or reallocate weekly food spending, like trading down to private label items, buying in bulk, using more leftovers or choosing a quick-service restaurant over a full-service restaurant, according to Circana food and beverage analysts at their annual Growth Summit last week.
Housewares Charity Foundation Raises $1 Million at Annual Gala
The housewares industry came together to raise $1 million during the 2023 Housewares Cares Charity Gala presented by the Housewares Charity Foundation (HCF) on Monday, March 6. Proceeds from the event benefited the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), the HCF’s legacy charity, and the James Beard Foundation, the gala’s partner as well as Winning With Wyatt and the V Foundation.
Hybrid Work: Helping Consumers Establish Routine
With hybrid work arrangements increasing, many people find themselves juggling two very different types of workday and new daily challenges at home.
Tapping into Social Media Opportunities – The Inspired Home Show
Social media is playing an increasingly important role in purchase decisions. Whether inspiration or product discovery, information-gathering or purchase, it’s a topic that came up again and again at The Inspired Home Show 2023.
The Inspired Home Show 2023 Shows Strong Performance
More than 1,600 exhibitors and nearly 30,000 home + housewares professionals from 125 countries came together at The Inspired Home Show 2023 to discover new products, reconnect with colleagues and advance the industry.