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By BOB
VEREEN, Director of Communications
NEWS
FLASHES-----
ABOUT
KEY RETAILERS/WHOLESALERS AND EVENTS
COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL BE EXHIBITING IN MEXICAN TRADE SHOW SOON
In early September (2-4), buyers from Mexico and other Latin American countries will be in Guadalajara, Mexico, attending the big Expo Nacional Ferretera trade show. Now in its 21st year, it will showcase products from more than 2,000 firms in some 500,000 sq. ft. of display space. Attendance is expected to be about 70,000 buyers.
Because it is the largest trade show serving the Latin American community, members of the Worldwide DIY Council strongly support it, either on their own as exhibitors or in the Council’s group pavilion, which is 150 sq. meters and featuring 15 member companies.
Here is a list of known Council members who will be exhibiting there. If you want more information about them, check their listings on this site. If their name is listed in blue, you can click on the name and be taken to a contact page about them and, with another click, to a catalog page on this site or to their home site:
Among the exhibitors are Channellock, Inc.; Chapin Mfg.; DAP; Deft; Bigg Lugg-Unique Tools; Estwing Mfg.; H. D. Hudson; Mundo Sales; OCI Americas; PreVal; Wall Firma and Werner Ladder. Non-member exhibitors include Oatey Co. and Briggs & Stratton. Major distributors and sales agencies also exhibit in this show, and many will feature the products of other Council members.
A few spaces are still available in the Council’s group pavilion at very attractive rates and reasonably-priced hotel rooms near the convention center are still available. Anyone interested in exhibiting in the Council pavilion should immediately contact Don Droesch, Executive Secretary, at ddroesch@cox.net.
AN INVITATION TO EVERY SITE VISITOR
Welcome to our site. Google Analytics tells us that you could be based in any of more than 80 countries whose visitors are coming to see us.
Whether you are a business person seeking information about a specific company or brand name or a consumer wanting to find a particular product or producer, our site is designed to provide you with a lot of information with a minimum of “clicks”.
At the left, the blue buttons will provide you a list of member companies alphabetically by name, as well as by the types of products they make (tools, hardware, etc). If you are from a country other than the U. S., you can look up your country and find out which of our members are already actively supplying retailers and wholesalers where you live. That should be quite helpful to you. We also tell you the languages in which members have packaging or literature to make it easy to get the information you want. Best of all, if a member’s name is in blue, you can click on it and find out all about the company and, with another click, get to a catalog their products or, if you wish, go directly to the company’s own web site. Just a click away.
Finally, we’ve got two link pages to further assist you--on for Other DIY Resources and one especially for all the DIY consumers visiting our site.
And once again, welcome--and thanks for visiting us. We hope you’ll spend some time exploring our site.
BUYERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD TURNED OUT IN BIG NUMBERS FOR THIS
YEAR'S NATIONAL HARDWARE SHOW® IN LAS VEGAS AND WERE REWARDED
The big event is over--buyers have gone back to their offices in the United States and dozens of foreign countries and manufacturers are busy sorting through stacks of leads and making follow-up calls. The Hardware Show is over!
There were nearly 3,000 exhibitors there. . . new products featured in special displays for buyer convenience. . . numerous educational sessions kept everyone abreast of new trends and research. . . and there were plenty of opportunities to network.
If you didn't attend the show or didn't get to see everyone you wanted to see, here is a listing of members of the WORLDWIDE DIY COUNCIL who exhibited there. Whether you are a US-based retailer or wholesaler or a buyer from an international country, Council members are anxious to help you. Our members are serving customers in more than 140 countries around the world. They are the most experienced exporters who exhibited in Las Vegas.
Just click on any blue, underlined name and you will be taken to a “contact” page telling you about the company and its products, and another click will take you to a catalog page showing some of its products.
Another click will take you to the company’s own web site. How easy we make it for you!
BUYERS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD MADE THE TRIP TO COLOGNE, GERMANY, FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HARDWARE FAIR AND SPENT LOTS OF TIME VISITING EXHIBITING MEMBERS AND CHECKING OUT NEW ITEMS
Members of the Worldwide DIY Council who exhibited in Cologne Feb. 28-March 3 were delighted with the reception they received from both industrial and retail buyers from around the world.
Although attendance was down from previous years, it was better than many had expected and buyer interest was strong. With business slowly recovering, buyers were looking for new products and they found them in members’ exhibits.
For the first time, the Council had a group pavilion in Hall 4.2, which supplemented the 25-year-old pavilion of the American Hardware Manufacturers Association, where a number of members have been exhibiting. In addition, of course, many members exhibited on their own in several different halls.
Council members worked hard during
the last months of 2009 in developing new products, improving
existing products and developing marketing programs to help their
customers increase sales in 2010. Tough times call
for innovation in products as well as promotions, and Council
members are responding.
Exhibiting members are listed below, so if you did not attend the Fair or did not have a chance to visit them, you can learn about their products and promotions by clicking
on the names of all Council members listed in blue. You will
be taken to their web pages on this site, giving you information
about who they are, where they are located, what they make and
who the international executives are. Another click will
take you to a catalog page showing the kinds of products they
make. You can also be connected to their individual
company web sites with another click, so it will be easy for you
to review their products. The listing below is organized alphabetically by Council member
names.
NEW INDUSTRY CONFERENCE
PLANNED IN VIENNA BY EDRA AND FEDIYMA
As one of its first official actions as a newly
formed, independent association, EDRA is joining forces with the
Federation of European DIY Manufacturers Association (FEDIYMA)
to conduct the first European Home Improvement Forum in Vienna
June 10-11.
FEDIYMA has conducted several of its own seminars
during the past few years. Joining forces officially
with EDRA will bring together major retailers with major suppliers
and is sure to guarantee a more productive and helpful industry
conference.
EDRA became an independent association recently
and plans to open a lobby office in Brussels tosafeguard interests
of the home center industry in Europe. A new board
also was elected, and is pictured below.
EDRA membership currently consists of 5 trade
associations--BHB, the German group; FMB representing French retailers;
ADFB of Spain, plus Italy's Assofermet and Finland's RaSiry.
In addition, EDRA has a number of direct European members, plus
several from Russia, who form the first members of a Global Home
Improvement Network, allowing membership from firms and organizations
outside Europe to become associate members. Currently,
EDRA's members come from 18 countries and are operating in 38
countries.
WORLDWIDE
DIY COUNCIL AND THE NORTH AMERICAN RETAIL HARDWARE ASSOCIATION
DEVELOP INDUSTRY
ALLIANCE PARTNERSHIP
Recognizing that their
goals are similar—helping home improvement retailers and
manufacturers be more profitable and successful—the Worldwide
DIY Council, headquartered in Chandler, AZ, and the North American
Retail Hardware Association, headquartered in Indianapolis, IN,
have agreed to become Industry Alliance Partners, sharing ideas
and services for the benefit of members of each organization.
The two organizations will begin working together immediately
for the success of the 2011 International Hardware Association
congress, which will be hosted by NRHA and will be held July 13-15,
2011 in Washington, D.C. This is the first time this international
conference of hardware retailers, retail associations and other
industry leaders will be held in the United States. NRHA's own
annual convention will take place July 15-17, in conjunction with
the IHA congress.
In
addition, NRHA will attend and appear on the program of the Worldwide
DIY Council's annual meeting, which will be held in conjunction
with the National Hardware Show® in May 2010. NRHA will sponsor
a reception at that event. The
two groups have pledged to continue to explore ways to work together
in the future for the betterment of the world's retailers and
manufacturers.
The North American Retail Hardware Association serves the $288
billion retail hardware/home improvement industry. NRHA publishes
Hardware Retailing, the industry’s leading trade magazine
that is distributed to more than 36,000 independent home improvement
retailers across the United States and Canada. For more information
visit www.nrha.org.
We want to tell you about a clever
web site to visit:
www.allmyfaves.com
gives you access to about 100 web sites with just one click!
The sites are organized by category--travel,
translations, news, etc. Then click on any logo shown
and you will be taken to that site. Check it out;
you'll want to save it and use it regularly. It's a great time-saver.
NEW LISTING OF IMPORTANT
WORLDWIDE SHOWS
Click on the button to the left, WHERE OUR MEMBERS
EXHIBIT, and you'll find a compilation of the most important international
trade shows around the world--a handy compilation for your travel
planning.
Meet our
members in person
In coming
months, members of the Worldwide DIY Council will be participating
in a number of industry trade shows, where you can meet them personally
and have face-to-face discussions of mutually beneficial relationships.
Click here for more information about forthcoming industry events.
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