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The International Housewares Association and ANDMORE have announced an eight-year partnership moving The Inspired Home Show from Chicago to AmericasMart Atlanta starting January 2028, co-located with Winter Atlanta Market. The show shifts from a temporary-only March event to a permanent, cross-category marketplace model for the first time in its history.
The International Housewares Association (IHA) and marketplace operator ANDMORE have announced an eight-year partnership that will move The Inspired Home Show from Chicago to AmericasMart Atlanta, beginning in January 2028. The housewares trade show will be co-located alongside ANDMORE’s Winter Atlanta Market, marking the first time in its history that the show will operate within a permanent, cross-category marketplace model.
Under the partnership, announced in late September 2026, The Inspired Home Show will leave its longtime format as a temporary-only trade show held every March in Chicago and take up residence on the AmericasMart campus in Atlanta. According to the announcement, the show’s exhibition space will be split evenly between permanent showrooms and traditional trade show space, a structural change from the temporary-booth model it has used historically.
The Atlanta edition will debut at Winter Atlanta Market, January 11–16, 2028, running alongside AmericasMart’s gift and home show. Before the relocation takes effect, The Inspired Home Show will hold one final Chicago edition on March 9–11, 2027.
The arrangement follows a template ANDMORE established in 2023, when the International Casual Furnishings Association (ICFA) moved its 60-plus-year-old Casual Market to AmericasMart. According to the announcement, that partnership has grown steadily each year since, and ANDMORE pointed to it as evidence of the model’s viability for relocating established shows.
What the Atlanta Move Means for Exhibitors
For housewares manufacturers and buyers, the shift to a permanent showroom model changes how the industry does business. Exhibitors gain year-round showroom presence rather than a single annual temporary display, while buyers can source across housewares, tabletop, gift and home categories in one trip, according to ANDMORE executives.
The move also consolidates Atlanta’s position as a merchandising center for the home and gift sectors. Amory Wooden, ANDMORE’s EVP and chief revenue officer, said the partnership “dramatically expands” the company’s housewares and tabletop offerings and signals that the permanent, cross-category marketplace model “has true staying power” in the industry.
For Chicago, the departure ends the city’s long run as host of the housewares industry’s flagship annual show, with the final edition scheduled for March 2027.
From Chicago Institution to Marketplace Model
The Inspired Home Show, operated by IHA, has historically run as a temporary-only trade show each March in Chicago, drawing housewares manufacturers and retail buyers for product discovery and deal-making. The event is the industry’s principal annual sourcing venue for housewares and related categories.
ANDMORE, which operates AmericasMart Atlanta, has been pursuing a strategy of converting established temporary trade shows into permanent marketplace campuses. Its 2023 agreement with ICFA to relocate the Casual Market — a show with more than six decades of history — to AmericasMart was the company’s template for the IHA deal, and the company says that partnership has grown every year since the move.
Winter Atlanta Market, the co-location partner for the new show, is described in the announcement as AmericasMart’s premier gift and home show, giving the combined January 2028 event reach across adjacent buying categories.
“This partnership dramatically expands our housewares and tabletop offerings, giving buyers even more reason to source across categories in one trip. And it signals that the permanent, cross-category marketplace model has true staying power in our industry.”
— Amory Wooden, EVP and chief revenue officer, ANDMORE
Open Questions About the 2028 Transition
The announcement leaves several operational details unspecified. It is not yet clear how existing Chicago exhibitors will be allocated between permanent showrooms and temporary trade show space, or what pricing and lease terms will apply to the new model. Exact square footage, expected exhibitor counts and attendance projections for the Atlanta edition have not been disclosed.
How buyers who have historically attended only the March Chicago show will respond to a January co-located event is also unknown. The announcement describes the ICFA Casual Market partnership as growing steadily since 2023, but no specific growth figures were provided.
Key Dates Ahead for the Relocation
The final Chicago edition of The Inspired Home Show is scheduled for March 9–11, 2027. The Atlanta debut follows at Winter Atlanta Market, January 11–16, 2028, under the eight-year partnership.
In the interim, IHA and ANDMORE are expected to release details on showroom availability, exhibitor contracts and buyer registration for the 2028 event, though no timeline for those announcements has been made public.
Key Questions
When and where will The Inspired Home Show first take place in Atlanta?
The Atlanta debut is scheduled for January 11–16, 2028, at AmericasMart Atlanta, co-located with Winter Atlanta Market.
When is the last Chicago Inspired Home Show?
The final Chicago edition is set for March 9–11, 2027, according to the announcement from IHA and ANDMORE.
How long is the ANDMORE partnership?
The partnership runs for eight years, committing The Inspired Home Show to the AmericasMart Atlanta campus over that period.
How will the show format change in Atlanta?
The show will move from a temporary-only format to space split evenly between permanent showrooms and trade show floors on the AmericasMart campus — the first permanent, cross-category marketplace arrangement in the show’s history.
Has ANDMORE moved other established shows to AmericasMart before?
Yes. In 2023, ICFA moved its 60-plus-year-old Casual Market to AmericasMart under a similar arrangement, and ANDMORE says that partnership has grown steadily each year since.
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