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Exhibiting
at the show
The 2009 International Home + Housewares Show is your opportunity to
join the world's largest audience of home goods and housewares
professionals. Every year more than 60,000 of the world's most
important professionals gather to do business in Chicago's
state-of-the-art McCormick Place Exposition Center.
Product Expos at the Show:
Clean + contain - including promotion in motion:
Retail promotions + continuities
Dine + design - including goho: gourmet
Home and food
Wired + well
Global crossroads (international pavilions)
Valuable Information on the Buying
Audience:
23,000 buyers from more than 100 countries representing the world’s
leading retailers:
16,000 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
2008, these channels represented 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 7,000 Non-U.S. Buyers
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