The International Housewares Association - Serving the needs of every retail buyer

The International Housewares Association helps you, the retail buyer, acquire quality products at the best prices. Connect with wholesale housewares suppliers and housewares manufacturers. Our exciting new service, Housewares Exchange, features auction and fixed price deals between a retail buyer and international housewares manufacturers of limited supply, high quality products. This easy to use wholesale housewares manufacturers marketplace connects you, the retail buyer with great deals on offers you may have otherwise missed.

Visit the International Housewares Association for what every retail buyer needs to know about housewares manufacturers and wholesale housewares suppliers.

The International Housewares Association directories help the retail buyer quickly find the right wholesale housewares manufacturers and other services. The easy online search feature lets you zero in on the right wholesale housewares manufacturers and receive detailed information on their product lines. You can also access wholesale housewares programs, sales and services with just a click of the mouse.

One of the most valuable tools for all businesses is the ability to make industry contacts. The IHA convenes the International Home + Housewares Show and assists in partnership development and international marketing opportunities between wholesale members, manufacturers and the retail buyer. It features directories of wholesale manufacturers and suppliers plus communications that inform and educate members. The IHA programs provide products, services, and information that can increase competitiveness of wholesale members in an increasingly global economy.

Each year the show attracts more than 60,000 people including 2,000 exhibitors from around the world as well as 14,000 purchasing agents from the United States and 6,000 international attendees from 40 countries. This site provides everything you need including registration forms, exhibitor lists and even panoramic photos of the show itself. The show is your opportunity to join the world's largest audience of home goods and professionals. Every year the world's most important professionals gather to do business in Chicago's state-of-the-art McCormick Place Exposition Center.

The IHA is a full service trade association dedicated to promoting the sales and marketing of the industry since 1938. IHA – the world's Home Authority – is strategically positioned to connect, inform, support and enable its international membership to lead in the global marketplace.

IHA assists its members throughout the year by offering global opportunities, by providing business solutions for operating more profitably, and by developing reliable industry resources for growing your business. Become a member and take advantage of the IHA's programs and services today.

The IHA promotes marketing opportunities between member manufacturers and retailers. As a member of the IHA, you automatically qualify for money saving benefits. As a member of the IHA, you can grow your company's business by taking part in a number of IHA sponsored industry initiatives. Network with fellow industry CEOs by joining a CORE peer group, benchmark your company's performance with the annual State of the Industry Reports and keep up to date on valuable consumer purchasing through IHA educational programs.

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