By David Gill
Nothing irks a pundit more than when nobody listens to him.
Last year at this time, I wrote a column about the March New York Home Fashions Market, in which I noted that retailers and manufacturers were still out of synch with each other on pricing. Actually, “out of synch” is putting...
CHICAGO—The Housewares Show continues into its second day today packed with numerous product introductions, busy exhibitor booths—and perhaps more importantly—an increasingly optimistic mood among both retailers and vendors. A new Mario Batali-licensed line from Dansk was among the attention-...
One hundred years before the food processor, there was the Starrett meat and vegetable chopper (version shown here from 1865), one of the 300-plus items now on view at Kendall College’s Culinary Curiosity exhibition (culinarycuriosity.org) in Chicago.
The exhibit gives visitors — and perhaps...
When I recently asked textiles executives about their current issues in sourcing, one CEO answered: “In one word…COTTON!!”
This reply…actually, this primal scream…reflects the textiles industry’s ongoing frustration. From about 50 cents a pound a year and a half ago, cotton prices have climbed to...
FRANKFURT, Germany–The Ambiente fair here in Frankfurt winds down today, capping five days of fresh, design-led product introductions and a general feeling that business has noticeably improved since last year’s show. Manufacturers across all product categories presented new products in fashionable...
Big spending has been a part of the Vegas lifestyle for decades, and now the conspicuous consumer can pick something up at Droog, the new U.S. location of the Dutch design company.
Facing the Las Vegas Strip in The Cosmopolitan hotel, the 2,500-square-foot shop is Droog’s only U.S. store. Droog...
DALLAS-The Dallas International Lighting Market enters its second day, with plenty of products and announcements along with it.
After their recent availability on iTunes, the Beatles continue to make news, as Stylecraft has just gained the license for framed art for the Fab Four. The initial 12...
Teaming the temporary pop-up store with the holiday season presents an ideal way to reach consumers this month, and three made their way to New York City.
Real Simple magazine held its first pop-up here in Rockefeller Center (in the same space QVC had its in September). More than 90 products were...
This is not the Springs we grew up with.
Never mind that over the past few years the company has changed owners and its name—from Springs Industries to Springs Global. As this past week has shown, it has changed its whole business model.
The company has two new licenses—with Nate Berkus for home...
There have been three great seminal changes in the history of retailing. That is about to become four.
The first was the creation of the modern American department store. John Wanamaker, Marshall Field and their contemporaries built huge retail emporiums that to this day are the top of the food...