Consumer Confidence Gains Suggest Shoppers Are Ready To Spend

The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index increased in October to 108.7, jumping from just below to well over the dividing line between positive and negative sentiments, which is a rating of 100. The September reading was  99.2.

Oprah’s ‘Favorite Things’ 2024 Offers Up Housewares Gift Ideas

Oprah Winfrey has released her 2024 “Favorite Things” list, a holiday gift guide featuring several housewares, personal care, travel and pet selections.

Wayfair CEO Shah Cites Q3 Progress, Improving Outlook

Wayfair turned in an adjusted profit in the third quarter and beat or equaled Wall Street earnings and revenue expectations.

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HomePage News InSight Trend Index 2024/25: Future Focus

The fourth portfolio in the HomePage News InSight™ Trend Index 2024/25 examines Future Focus: products that reflect consumer awareness and collective conscience.

2024/25 InSight™ Trend Index

The HomePage News InSight Trend Index 2024/25 is the second annual series of digital portfolios providing a guide to emerging and enduring housewares trends through the products and innovations that embody them.

This comprehensive series is produced and presented in partnership with Springboard Futures and its founder and industry trend authority Tom Mirabile, along with creative director Dawn Evans, who also serves as director of marketing for the International Housewares Association.

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2023/24 InSight™ Trend Index

The HomePage News InSight™ Trend Index 2023/24 is an exclusive digital guide that explores emerging and enduring home and housewares trends through the products and innovations that embody them.

This comprehensive series is produced and presented by HomePage News in partnership with Springboard Futures and its founder and industry trend authority Tom Mirabile, along with creative director Dawn Evans, who also serves as director of marketing from the International Housewares Association.

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The 2024 IHA Occasions and At-Home Entertaining Surveys (in partnership with market researcher Morning Consult) underscore the product development, marketing and sales opportunities available to the home and housewares industry by serving key life moments and increasing frequency of at-home entertaining for all sorts of get-togethers.

2024 Occasions & At-Home Entertaining Reports

The 2024 IHA Occasions and At-Home Entertaining Surveys (in partnership with market researcher Morning Consult) underscore the product development, marketing and sales opportunities available to the home and housewares industry by serving key life moments and increasing frequency of at-home entertaining for all sorts of get-togethers.

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2023Occasions Report: Housewares Joins The Celebration

The 2023 International Housewares Association (IHA) Occasions Report provides insight into how consumers are once again embracing key life moments and plan to in the year ahead and beyond.

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HomePage News Ranks Top 50 Housewares Retailers of 2023

The HomePage News Top 50 Housewares Retailers report demonstrates that while the biggest retailers command the majority of housewares sales, the variety of companies that generate significant revenues in the sector is noteworthy.

2023 Top 50 Housewares Retailers

The HomePage News Top 50 Housewares Retailers report demonstrates that while the biggest retailers command the majority of housewares sales, the variety of companies that generate significant revenues in the sector is noteworthy.

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2022 Top 50 Housewares Retailers

The HomePage News Top 50 Housewares Retailers ranking underscores the strength of the top 10 operators in the United States but does indicate that, although the biggest dominate, opportunity exists elsewhere as well.

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2021 Top 50 Housewares Retailers

The HomePage News Top 50 Housewares Retailers ranking demonstrates the dominance of the top 10 store runners in the United States. It also reveals the opportunity for those retailers, and anyone working with them, that can develop a niche in the housewares market.

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The HomePage News 2023 Consumer Outlook Survey, commissioned in partnership with the International Housewares Association, was fielded recently to help suppliers and retailers pinpoint home and housewares opportunities in the coming year. This exclusive report reveals housewares purchase intent across core categories.

2023 Consumer Outlook Report

The HomePage News 2023 Consumer Outlook Survey, commissioned in partnership with the International Housewares Association, was fielded recently to help suppliers and retailers pinpoint home and housewares opportunities in the coming year. This exclusive report reveals housewares purchase intent across core categories.

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2022 Consumer Outlook Report

Sizing Up Housewares Purchase Intent Category By Category

The first annual HomePage News Consumer Outlook Survey, commissioned in partnership with the International Housewares Association, was fielded recently to help suppliers and retailers pinpoint home and housewares opportunities in the coming year.

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Yankee Candle Introduces Festive Holiday Collections

Yankee Candle Introduces Festive Holiday Collections

Yankee Candle Company, part of the Newell Brands portfolio, has introduced two new holiday collections: Passport to the Holidays, inspired by global destinations, and Après Ski, inspired by the mountain air, fresh snowfall and ski lodge celebrations.

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IHA Announces 2024 Global Honorees for gia Top Window Awards

IHA Announces 2024 Global Honorees for gia Top Window Awards

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 “Shoppers Just Want To Have Fun: Visual Trends Captivating Millennial and Gen Z Consumers/gia Top Window Award” presentation by gia expert juror Anne Kong earlier today.

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