Anna Huddleston

Shoptalk Spring 2026 took place March 24-26 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, bringing together more than 10,000 attendees from across the retail, consumer brand and tech landscape.

In a sea of bulldozers and excavators digging for attention, it’s not often that a heavy equipment brand would bank on helping construction pros find their Zen. But that was exactly the approach that Hitachi Construction Machinery Americas took for its 30,000-square-foot booth at the recent CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2026.  Built around the theme “Connecting Harmony to […]

From a flipped mountain to a fruit Eiffel Tower to floating carts, EuroShop once again lived up to its claim as the “Global Retail Festival,” welcoming more than 81,000 visitors from 141 countries and 1,840 exhibitors representing 61 nations from Feb. 18-22, in Düsseldorf, Germany.  Held every three years, the trade show has become a […]

If your soda doesn’t pack protein and your gummies, creatine, you need to up your snacking game. Protein-fortified everything, products with fewer ingredients, and women’s health products dominated the aisles at the Natural Products Expo 2026, which brought about 60,000 attendees from health and nutrition communities to the Anaheim Convention Center, March 3-6. Consumers are in […]

After a recent trade show, the Los Angeles Convention Center was strapped with more than 8,000 pounds of wood, about 60 percent more than an average LACC event, destined for the landfills. But that wasn’t about to happen. Thanks to a partnership with the ANE Foundation, a local crisis care organization serving vulnerable populations, the […]