Hot, New Products, Celebrity Chefs, Incredible Inventions and Design Everywhere Showcased at 2007 International Home & Housewares Show

Country's Top Designers talk Lifestyle and Kitchen Trends, Sustainability and choose Show's Best Designed Products

  WHAT:  Hot new housewares products, celebrity chefs, 2008 colors, and
         design, design, design generate the "wow" factor at the 2007
         International Home & Housewares Show, the world's largest
         housewares emporium.

         Entrepreneurs and big companies alike will be among the 60,000
         attendees to buy and sell thousands of products with new designs,
         new colors and new technologies to captivate consumers as they
         continue to morph their homes into personal retreats.

  SPECIAL
         CELEBRITY CHEFS  - GOHO Cooking Theater - South Building
         Paula Deen, Rocco DiSpirito, Todd English, Ted Allen, Alton Brown,
         Lorna Sass, Jason Paskewitz, Jesse Ziff Cool

         2008 COLORS - Lakeside Center Grand Foyer
         See all the new colors for 2008 at ColorWatch by PANTONE

         DESIGN THEATRE - Lakeside Center Design Theater
         Country's top designers talk lifestyle and kitchen trends,
         sustainability and more.

         DESIGNED DEFINED - Twenty-five products epitomizing today's top
         design!

         The Inventors Revue at Design ALIVE - South Building - The
         "American Idol" of housewares!

         The GOHO District- South Building - Aisles of gourmet food to
         taste!

         STUDENTS HOUSEWARES DESIGN - Outstanding award-winning products,
         and competing tabletop designs, showcase the innovation, creativity

         and vision of interior and industrial design students from around
         the country.
         -- Student Design Competiton - Lakeside Center Level 3 Lobby
         -- Designed Table - South Building

  DATE:  March 11-13, 2007
         Hours: Sunday and Monday - 8:00 am to 5:30 pm
                Tuesday          -- 8:30 am to 5:00 pm

  WHERE: McCormick Place Exposition Center, Chicago, Illinois

  EXPOS AND LOCATIONS:

         -- Wired & Well Expo - Lakeside Center, Level 3
         -- Dine & Design Expo - South Building
         -- Clean, Contain & Outdoor Domain North Building, Level 3
         -- Global Crossroads Expo - North Building, Level 3

  FACTS:
         -- Nearly 60,000 buyers and sellers from over 100 countries
         -- 2,100 exhibitors from nearly 40 countries
         -- One-third of exhibitors are international

  SPONSOR:  International Housewares Association - The Home Authority


  CONTACT: Debbie Teschke IHA, 312-808-2050

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