Evans Archives | HomePage News https://www.homepagenews.com/tag/evans/ the home + housewares business authority Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:53:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://www.homepagenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Evans Archives | HomePage News https://www.homepagenews.com/tag/evans/ 32 32 InSight+: An Inside Look at the HomePage News Insight Trend Index https://www.homepagenews.com/videos/insight-an-inside-look-at-the-homepage-news-insight-trend-index/ https://www.homepagenews.com/videos/insight-an-inside-look-at-the-homepage-news-insight-trend-index/#respond Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:46:34 +0000 https://www.homepagenews.com/?p=291447 HomePage News presents InSight+, an exclusive curator’s perspective on the creation and presentation of the HomePage News InSight Trend Index 2023/24. This special video presentation takes you behind the curtain to show how each of the nine InSight trend portfolios came into view and why now is a pivotal time for such a vivid exploration of trends in lifestyle, design, function and materials that drive today’s innovations.

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HomePage News presents InSight+, an exclusive curator’s perspective on the creation and presentation of the HomePage News InSight Trend Index 2023/24.

The InSight Trend Index is a first-of-its-kind, comprehensive digital report examining emerging and enduring home and housewares trends through products and innovations that embody them. The InSight team explored influential industry trade shows in the U.S. and abroad to identify global trends driving growth and expansion across home and housewares categories.

The trend index features nine portfolios ranging from at-home entertaining and outdoor living to trends in material and color, culminating with a look at the encompassing wellness trend. The portfolios represent how consumers are living, the evolution of their lives and homes, and what we found to be the roots of ongoing consumer lifestyles that drive trends. 

This special video presentation features InSight report curator author and industry trend analyst Tom Mirabile, founder of Springboard Futures, and report designer Dawn Evans, director of marketing for the International Housewares Association. Mirabile and Evans will take you behind the curtain to show how each of the nine InSight trend portfolios came into view. They explain why now a pivotal time for such a vivid exploration of trends in lifestyle, design, function and materials that drive today’s innovations; and how the HomePage News InSight Trend Index can be used as a practical tool for manufacturers and retailers cultivating the next growth opportunities for home and housewares.

The pandemic, like few periods in the history of the home and housewares business, illuminated the importance of trend — and what matters most to consumers. Post-pandemic, amid new market challenges, the business can’t be simply transactional. Success requires distinguishing from competitors and communicating in the clearest terms about your products, your brands and your relevance. In tighter market conditions, what now might be about taking market share will soon need to be about driving growth across an industry. How supplier and retailer brands tell their stories will depend on how they read their markets. The perspective will be different from business. But these are the new rules of engagement.

The HomePage News Trend Index applies years of expertise and analysis to understand where the consumer hot spots are and where they’re headed.

It connects and synchronizes teams that run a business. It illustrates how they can think, create and execute as a team. Product development, marketing and merchandising can’t occur in a tunnel leading to so-called magic price points. Consider the InSight Trend Index a model for how intuitive, informed and industrious lifestyle product creation and selection can build a sustainable lifestyle business. And how that requires a collaborative team effort

The HomePage New InSight Trend Index is a collaborative team effort by Mirabile of Springboard Futures, Evans of IHA and the entire HomePage News team. It is also a collaboration with and for the home and housewares industry. In a way, our roles in bringing this unprecedented trend report to the market stand as a metaphor for how retailers should shop trade shows… to look for more than productsto look for consumer-driven experiences and solutions.

With help from today’s deeper perspective on why trends matter more than ever and how that fueled the InSight Trend Index, we encourage you to take another look at each of the report’s trend portfolios. See how it all adds up to provide what we hope is a truly inspiring view on how to curate home and housewares success.

The HomePage News Insight Trend Index will evolve in 2024 to support the next wave of trend-activating home and housewares products. Future installments of the report showcasing evolving and new trend portfolios will showcase added marketplace intelligence and data to provide greater depth to the trends discovered and explored by InSight and the forces that drive and sustain them.

InSight, is, indeed, a powerful tool. 

— Peter Giannetti, Editor-in-Chief

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At Home Initiates CEO Search Ahead of Bird Retirement https://www.homepagenews.com/retail-articles/at-home-initiates-ceo-search-ahead-of-bird-retirement/ https://www.homepagenews.com/retail-articles/at-home-initiates-ceo-search-ahead-of-bird-retirement/#respond Fri, 10 Nov 2023 17:25:23 +0000 https://www.homepagenews.com/?p=290544 At Home, in expectation of the retirement of chairman and CEO Lee Bird, has formed an interim office of the CEO helmed by Jeff Evans, president and chief merchandising officer; Jerry Murray, CFO; and Ashley Sheetz, COO.

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At Home, in expectation of the retirement of chairman and CEO Lee Bird, has formed an interim office of the CEO helmed by Jeff Evans, president and chief merchandising officer; Jerry Murray, CFO; and Ashley Sheetz, COO.

Erik Ragatz, At Home’s lead director, will serve as executive chairman. The At Home board of directors  has initiated a search to identify the company’s next CEO.

Bird joined At Home as CEO in December 2012 after leadership roles at companies including Nike and Old Navy. At Home has positioned itself the past decade to provide big assortments of home goods and seasonal furniture and decor at sharp values. During Bird’s tenure, the company expanded from 58 stores and $364 million of revenue to 268 stores and almost $2 billion in revenue today. He also led the rebranding of the company as At Home in 2014 and oversaw the launch of its online offering.

At Home added Bird steered At Home through the COVID-19 pandemic and spearheaded the development in 2017 of the company’s loyalty program, which has grown to more than 15 million members. He also presided over At Home’s 2021 acquisition by Hellman & Friedman, a private equity firm.

“On behalf of the company, I want to thank Lee for his tremendous leadership of At Home over the last decade,” Ragatz said. “Lee helped build At Home into one of the great retailers across industries. Today, At Home is the go-to destination for home décor and holiday shoppers across the country. As a leader and mentor, Lee has had a profound impact on At Home’s thousands of employees and will remain an important member of the At Home family for years to come.”

Ragatz is chairman of the board of Snap One Holdings Corp., and he serves as lead independent director of Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. and Caliber Collision. Until recently, he was a Hellman & Friedman partner.

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Former Walmart Exec Evans Named At Home President, Chief Merchant https://www.homepagenews.com/retail-articles/former-walmart-exec-evans-named-at-home-president-chief-merchant/ https://www.homepagenews.com/retail-articles/former-walmart-exec-evans-named-at-home-president-chief-merchant/#respond Wed, 31 May 2023 17:06:02 +0000 https://www.homepagenews.com/?p=284089 At Home has appointed former Walmart executive Jeff Evans president and chief merchandising officer effective June 19, the company announced.

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At Home has appointed former Walmart executive Jeff Evans president and chief merchandising officer effective June 19, the company announced.

Evans has 32 years of experience in managing businesses across different retail formats including department stores, warehouse clubs and mass retailers, At Home pointed out, as well as in e-commerce, brand building, product development, sourcing and identifying business opportunities. Prior to joining At Home, he was executive vp, entertainment, toys and seasonal for Walmart U.S. He served in leadership roles at Walmart U.S. and Sam’s Club for 15 years working in general merchandising, omnichannel, home and apparel divisions. Evans began his career at Filene’s Department Store and spent 16 years merchandising different apparel categories, At Home maintained.

“We’re thrilled to have Jeff join the At Home team at a pivotal point in our company’s transformation,” said Lee Bird, At Home chairman and CEO, in announcing the appointment. “His experience leading at the highest-ranked Fortune 100 company will bring a new level of excellence to our business. He is a collaborative leader that has delivered consistent results by building high-performing teams, being customer and data-focused, and driving digital transformation.”

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Macy’s Expanding Sustainability Initiatives https://www.homepagenews.com/retail-articles/macys-expanding-sustainability-initiatives/ https://www.homepagenews.com/retail-articles/macys-expanding-sustainability-initiatives/#respond Wed, 21 Sep 2022 18:46:08 +0000 https://www.homepagenews.com/?p=272151 To further its social platform goals, Macy’s is introducing, enhancing and extending sustainability initiatives including those that touch on operational considerations such as samples.

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To further its social platform goals, Macy’s is introducing, enhancing and extending sustainability initiatives including those that touch on operational considerations such as samples.

So, to reduce waste, Macy’s private brand team has embraced technology that allows it to scale back on the number of physical samples required from suppliers without impacting fit, color and other design considerations. The process has substantially decreased textile waste since launch. In 2019, 5% of samples were digital but by the end of the 2022 development season, 61% of all samples were virtual, reducing material shipped to landfills.

As it builds on its Mission Every One social platform, Macy’s pointed out that it has launched initiatives including those meant to reduce waste such as:

  • Use of auto-boxer and auto-bagger technology, which enables Macy’s to create unique packaging that can fit odd or oversized items and, as a result, reduce box volume and waste by up to 50%.
  • Providing order information in customer online accounts and using email receipts to curtail reliance on printed invoices that could become waste.
  • Reconstituting virgin plastic mailer bags to include 35% recycled content and to reduce the thickness of the bag by 20%, cutting the virgin plastic component by more than half.
  • Moving goods from customers back to the sellers, or manufacturers, for reuse or for sale or to resellers, thus extending the lifecycle of a product.

Beyond operational waste and through its partnership with Give Back Box, Macy’s is asking customers to contribute to the lifecycle extension of their clothes, toys and other items by downloading a prepaid shipping label from its website and sending them for resale and recycling, the company indicated.

As part of a 2025 goal to recycle as much material as possible, the Macy’s beauty products team launched a pilot program to minimize environmental impact by shipping outdated collateral to a third-party operator for recycling rather than in-store disposal. The company also launched a program to use RFID technology to track participation and weights of store cardboard recycling to boost store recycling rates to 80% by 2025.

Also, Macy’s is looking to provide circular solutions and services, prioritizing additional opportunities to extend the life of a product. To drive this goal and begin the transition to a more circular business, Macy’s became a part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation community early this year. It did so to focus on accelerating and enabling the transition to a global, circular economy and to support Fabscrap, a non-profit in New York City that helps ensure that the fabric waste – an unavoidable part of the design and development process – is reused, upcycled, downcycled and recycled responsibly.

“As a leading, omnichannel retailer, we understand the role we play in creating a more equitable and sustainable future for all,” stated Keelin Evans, Macy’s vp of sustainability. “We are committed to promoting a more circular economy across our value chain. Our efforts are focused on providing sustainable and ethically produced brands, products, and services to our customers while reducing our impact on the environment through operations. We’re going to achieve this through our guiding social purpose platform, Mission Every One, and an enterprise-wide collaboration with partners, designers, suppliers, logistics partners, entrepreneurs, colleagues and customers.”

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Walmart Teams with Netflix, Addresses Supply Chain as Holidays Approach https://www.homepagenews.com/retail-articles/walmart-teams-with-netflix-addresses-supply-chain-as-holidays-approach/ https://www.homepagenews.com/retail-articles/walmart-teams-with-netflix-addresses-supply-chain-as-holidays-approach/#respond Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:35:55 +0000 https://www.homepagenews.com/?p=252659 Walmart is preparing for the holidays in a myriad of ways, and in doing so, it has introduced a new deal with Netflix that will result in it incorporating a Netflix Hub with products tied to popular shows on the network including Stranger Things, and it detailed some of the steps it is taking to deal with supply chain challenges.

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Walmart is preparing for the holidays in a myriad of ways, and in doing so, it has introduced a new deal with Netflix that will result in it incorporating a Netflix Hub with products tied to popular shows on the network including Stranger Things, and it detailed some of the steps it is taking to deal with supply chain challenges.

In a new example of the company partnering with an outside business to establish a product collection, as it did with Justice, Jeff Evans, evp/entertainment, toys and seasonal, Walmart U.S., stated in a blog post that Walmart is establishing itself as an entertaining destination for consumers who have embraced Netflix and its programming. Going forward, shoppers will find a growing Netflix range of mostly music, apparel, toys and games for fan-favorites Nailed It! and Cocomelon, and new shows such as Ada Twist, Scientist as well as Stranger Things.

However, home hasn’t been forgotten even in the limited introductory lineup for fall, which includes a CoComelon 4-piece Toddler Bed Set with Bonus Blanket, retailing at $36.97.

In addition to products, the Netflix Hub will offer shoppers exclusive experiences that engage popular Netflix shows in innovative ways, Evans asserted. Among its plans, Walmart will launch a crowd-sourcing initiative dubbed Netflix Fan Select that will allow fans to vote for merchandise they’d like to see from favorite shows on the network, in effect electing new products.

Meanwhile, Joe Metzger, evp/supply chain operations, Walmart U.S., noted that the retailer is working to minimize disruption, sourcing holiday merchandise earlier than usual, for one thing, and finding ways to move those products inside its supply chain network as quickly as possible. The company also is laying in inventory, Metzger maintained and trying to build up more.

Other actions Walmart is taking include, the company pointed out:

  • Chartering ships, as revealed in an August conference call, and diverting shipments through less congested ports
  • Rerouting inland shipments, using less conventional transportation methods to avoid rail delays
  • Investing in supply associates through wage increases throughout the year, with plans to do so through the holidays to meet growing customer demand
  • Hiring more than 3,000 drivers this year, with more recruits in the pipeline.
  • Adding 20,000 permanent supply chain positions to help move products through facilities as quickly as possible.
  • Promoting and training thousands of supply chain employees this year, with plans to continue as leaders emerge throughout its network
  • Adding storage capacity in fulfillment and distribution networks through new facilities
  • Expanding automation capabilities in existing facilities to get products from distribution centers to stores faster
  • Enhancing delivery capabilities and routing online orders straight from stores
  • Hiring 150,000 associates across the country to help customers and fulfill orders emerging from stores

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