GIA 2023-2024 – IHA Global Innovation Award For Retailing Winners Celebrated at The Inspired Home Show in Chicago
ROSEMONT, IL (Feb. 1, 2024) – Excellence in housewares retailing is an important focus at The Inspired Home Show 2024 in Chicago as the world’s most innovative and creative home and housewares retailers are honored at the annual IHA Global Innovation Awards (gia) program. The Inspired Home Show® and the International Housewares Association (IHA), the global […]
Congress Begins Moving a Bipartisan Tax Bill
Congress Begins Moving a Bipartisan Tax Bill On January 17, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) announced bipartisan, bicameral tax legislation, the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 (TRAFA). To summarize, TRAFA would extend three business tax breaks from 2017’s […]
IHSA Begins Ocean Contract Negotiations
IHSA Begins Ocean Contract Negotiations The ocean shipping market continues to be very unstable as it has been since the beginning of the pandemic. In a short three-year period, shippers have been exposed to record high-rate levels, record low-rate levels, severe space limitations and fractured supply chains. The instability in the Red Sea is the […]