The Exclusively Show has established itself with a reputation for predicting commercial trends in housewares, gift, and small domestic electricals; Phil Pond, from trend forecaster Scarlet Opus, has given his insight on to what consumers “needs” are in 2024.
Mr Pond highlighted that realism consumers are focussed on “needs” as opposed to “wants”, an approach based on financial anxiety and being self-reliant. For suppliers, the upside of this is that while buying less, ‘Realists’ want to buy better and ideally from companies to which they can relate.
Chair of Exclusively, Will Jones commented: “It’s great for both exhibitors and visitors to get some preview insight into the top trends ahead of the event itself. It ensures that Exclusively is as ever a real showcase of the absolute best and most current housewares, gift, and small domestic electrical products in the industry.”
In terms of colours, there is a wide potential palette ranging from mock orange and rust, through safari, tea and olive to virtual pink, lemon zest, gumdrop green and Dutch blue. Patterns major on flora and fauna, especially where imprecise, distorted or reflected. Worn, faded and blurry are also very much on trend in terms of surface design.
The show itself will feature trend talks, trend tours for buyers and displays of exhibitors’ products pre-selected for being particularly ‘on trend’.
