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Who is HIRI?

The only nonprofit organization dedicated to home improvement research, HIRI empowers members with exclusive, ongoing home improvement data, and information for making better business decisions.

Members are the leading manufacturers, retailers, and allied organizations in the home improvement industry. Join them in benefiting from invaluable data and insights.

Brands that Rely on HIRI's Research

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Influencer Marketing for Home Improvement Brands

Most brands now allocate up to 20% of their total marketing spend on influencer marketing. Furthermore, many home improvement brands use influencers to help share their brand stories with consumer and trade audiences, including architects, builders, contractors, and designers. Join Us for this webinar on October 27th.

Testimonials

LIXIL and the American Standard Brands have been a loyal member of the Home Improvement Research Institute for years. Our membership with HIRI is one of the more valuable subscriptions offering an incredible breadth of research on the consumer, PRO, and the industry. If you’re operating lean and looking for data or want to get up to seed on the trends in the home improvement industry, this is a great source.

LIXIL Water Technology Americas

Michalina Maka Longo

Our HIRI membership provides valuable resources and insights into the home improvement industry, particularly in forecasting the size of the home improvement market. We've benefited greatly from our participation in the annual conference, which brings together a wide range of professionals for meaningful discussions on the industry and, of course, for valuable networking opportunities.

HOUZZ

Marine Sargsyan

HIRI arguably delivers more value than any other research organization given the low cost of membership and the high quantity and quality of their research. EnerBank utilizes HIRI's research to keep up with industry trends.

EnerBank USA

Dave King

With a long history of providing research and insights into the home improvement marketplace, HIRI keeps its finger on the pulse of consumer and trade professional attitudes, purchase decision-making and priorities, and how they influence home renovation trends. Its industry-leading research helps VELUX Skylights make smart business decisions.

Velux America LLC

Chan Hoyle

FirstService Brands has been a HIRI member for 10+ years. We consistently use the research and get great benefit from the HIRI Summit. It has been good to see the organization mature over the years and enjoy increased industry awareness.

FirstService Brands

Ian Van Heyst

Our Marketing, Sales, and Innovation teams have been utilizing HIRI research increasingly more to supplement our primary market research, to identify trends, and to support customer line reviews. And the webinars offered have been a great way for us to better understand the reports. We also appreciate how HIRI is evolving and expanding its research scope to further meet the needs of its members.

Shurtech

Diane Walsh

Recently Released Research

Retail Innovation - Trend Hunter Trend Report

As part of our commitment to provide HIRI members with some of the best research, we have partnered with Trend Hunter, a leader in trend spotting, to help identified what are some of the trends that play a role in the home, housing, and home improvement. As part of this partnership, we will be releasing a series of reports focusing on these trends. Along with the information itself within the report, each one gives an opportunity to dig deeper into the various topics to related writings and articles supporting these trends.

US Size of the Home Improvement Products Market Update Nov 2021

Join us as we welcome Scott Hazelton of IHS Markit to discuss updates to the economy and forecasts for the US home improvement products market.

Contractor Topic Study: Material Shortages and Channel

Learn the work impacts that professional contractors are seeing as a result of material shortages. How often they are experiencing difficulties, where they delays are coming in, how it has affected their costs and more.

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Recent Blog Entries

4 Major Home Wellness Trends From HIRI Summit Speaker Dr. Jie Zhao

In recent years, wellness in the home has emerged as a major trend in the home improvement market, and the COVID-19 pandemic only elevated consumers’ awareness of indoor environments’ significant impact on our physical and mental health. For more insight into the trends shaping today’s homes, we talked with a top industry expert and speaker at the Home Improvement Research Institute’s annual Insights Summit on Sept. 21-23. Dr. Jie Zhao is executive vice president and head of Delos, a wellness real estate and technology company based out of New York.

The Home Improvement Research Institute Predicts Overall Home Improvement Product Sales to Continue Growth into 2025, with Uptick in Professional Market Growth

Data from the recently released market update provides insight to home and building marketing professionals as the industry continues to shift in the wake of COVID-19

Project Planning Statistics in the Home Improvement Industry

Curious about project planning statistics of the home improvement industry? With more people spending time at home and the current housing market, project planning has seen some interesting trends. So, what are the most popular projects, and who is planning them in 2021?

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Home Improvement Consumer Project Planning: Q3 2021 Update

Project planning remained high in Q3 2021. Through the summer months, nearly 74% of homeowners planned on working on their homes. Down slightly from the apex of project planning that occurs every Q2, Q3 2021 is 4% higher than one year ago.

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Become a Member

No matter your title, a HIRI membership can benefit you. With research that touches on both DIYers and Pros, and spans markets, channels and products/projects, you’ll gain the insight you need to help grow your business.

HIRI members receive $1 Million of proprietary research, with over 50 reports being delivered in 2021 alone. Studies are geared both to meet the individual needs of members and to gauge market trends relevant to our members as a whole.

Every year industry professionals gather to dissect trends, describe their research and forecast what’s coming.

A summary of studies is presented by HIRI’s research partners via the web. Receive our monthly news update featuring HIRI’s research highlights along with hot topics, additional home improvement news and industry developments.

HIRI is composed of the top retailers, manufacturers, distributors, publishing companies and trade associations in the home improvement industry. With members from every corner of the home improvement market, we can ensure research that’s essential to keeping you in the lead.

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