HTI is an association that facilitates the opportunity to build better relationships between our 125 independent kitchenware retailer members and over 200 housewares vendor members. These improved relationships lead to a financially beneficial relationship between retailer & vendor businesses. Our vendors provide our retailer members with discounts and benefits that only an organization with substantial buying power can negotiate and obtain.
Once you become a member nothing changes in the way you operate your business or purchase your inventory. You do not order from or through HTI; you continue to order directly from the vendor or through your rep, at shows, or directly. HTI has nothing to do with the way you conduct or operate your business. We are strictly the negotiators of vendor discounts and provider of elective programs & services. All elective services and programs are designed to improve your sales and profits.
As a retailer member the only difference you will experience is improved relationships with our Vendor members and the discounts, dating, and freight allowances from them.