International Home and Housewares Show

March 11-13, 2007 - McCormick Place - Chicago, IL

The International Home & Housewares Show is your opportunity to join the world's largest audience of housewares professionals. Every year 60,000 of the world's most important home & housewares products professionals gather to do business in Chicago's state-of-the-art McCormick Place Exposition Center. They come to explore new, creative business opportunities as well as strengthen existing relationships.

What product categories are covered at the Show?

More than 21,000 buyers from more than 100 countries representing the world’s leading retailers:

Over 15,000 U.S. Buyers

These buyers represent the largest single home products and housewares market in the world. U.S. consumers purchase over $75 billion of the products displayed at the Show annually.

• U.S. Buyers represent diverse retail channels including the fast-growing specialty channels. Retailers such as Linens' n Things, Bed, Bath and Beyond, Federated Department Stores and other specialty focused independent retailers attend in large numbers. In 2006, these channels represented over 75% of retail buyers at the Show.
• 99% of the top 150 U.S. retailers are represented at the Show. Wal*Mart,Target, Walgreens, Lowe’s and many other mass channel retailers view the Show as a key marketplace.
• U.S. distributors and wholesalers send over 2,500 representatives to the Show each year.

More than 6,000 Non-U.S. Buyers

• Reflecting the accelerating globalization of the home goods industry, international buyers from all continents represent nearly one-third of the total number of buyers attending the Show.