Quick answer: Kitchen + Bath Canada is relaunching in 2026 under new ownership, led by the team behind KBIS and supported by NKBA and its Canadian chapters. If you want to succeed in the Canadian market, you need to show up for it. This is Canada’s national platform for kitchen and bath design, bringing together the specifiers, designers, builders and decision-makers shaping residential projects across the country. Your Canadian customers deserve your attention—and this is where you demonstrate it.

If You’re Still Deciding, You’re Not Alone

A lot of brands are watching Kitchen + Bath Canada from the sidelines right now, waiting to see how the first year plays out before committing. That instinct makes sense. Nobody wants to be the guinea pig for a new event.

But here’s the thing about waiting: by the time an event has proven itself, the best positioning is already gone. The exhibitors who get remembered as founding partners, who show up in the first-year press coverage, who help shape the room, are the ones who said yes before the outcome was guaranteed.

This isn’t a pitch to ignore due diligence. It’s an invitation to look closely at what’s actually changed at Kitchen + Bath Canada, because 2026 isn’t a continuation of what came before. It’s a reset, and the difference matters.

What Actually Changed for Kitchen + Bath Canada in 2026?

If you exhibited at a previous version of this show, or heard mixed things from someone who did, it’s fair to have questions. Here’s the direct answer: Kitchen + Bath Canada operates under new ownership and new leadership in 2026, and the team now producing it is the same team behind KBIS, the largest kitchen and bath event in North America.

That matters for a few reasons. The KBIS team brings decades of experience building exhibitor mixes that work, programming that draws qualified attendees, and partnerships that give a show credibility from day one. Kitchen + Bath Canada is also produced with the support of NKBA and its Canadian chapters, which means the event is shaped by the associations and regional leaders who already understand what Canadian designers, builders, and showrooms need.

The goal isn’t to import a smaller version of KBIS into Canada. It’s to build a curated, design-forward event that reflects how the Canadian industry actually works, from sourcing and distribution to the relationships between designers and the brands they specify.

Why Is Canada’s Kitchen and Bath Market Ready for a National Platform?

Canada’s residential renovation market generates more than 60 billion dollars in activity annually, and kitchens and bathrooms remain the most renovated spaces in Canadian homes. Demand for premium appliances, cabinetry, fixtures, and materials continues to grow alongside that investment.

Despite that scale, the Canadian kitchen and bath industry has never had a single national gathering place. Instead, it’s been split across regional events, international shows built for other markets, showroom visits, and broader design conferences that don’t focus specifically on kitchen and bath. Designers, custom builders, remodelers, and showrooms across the country have had no consistent place to discover new products or build relationships at scale.

Kitchen + Bath Canada exists to close that gap. It’s built specifically for the Canadian market, which means the professionals in the room are the ones actively sourcing, specifying, and building for Canadian homeowners, not a broader North American audience that happens to include some Canadians.

Why Showing Up in Canada Matters Now

If your brand is serious about Canada, you need to show up for Canada. The designers, builders, and showrooms shaping residential projects across this country are looking for partners who are present, committed, and invested in the market they serve. Kitchen + Bath Canada is where you demonstrate that.

Exhibiting at Kitchen + Bath Canada sends a clear message to the Canadian market: you’re here, you’re committed, and you take Canada seriously. Here’s what that commitment delivers:

• Market commitment, demonstrated. Showing up at Canada’s national kitchen and bath platform tells Canadian designers, builders, and showrooms exactly where your brand stands. Presence is a signal. It says you’re invested in this market and in the professionals who shape it.
• Your Canadian customers deserve your attention. The specifiers and decision-makers shaping residential design across this country are actively evaluating the brands they want to work with. Being in the room puts you in that conversation. Staying home does not.
• Don’t let competitors fill the space. While you’re watching from the sidelines, other brands are building relationships with the Canadian designers, builders, and showrooms you’re trying to reach. Every year without a presence is a year those connections are forming without you.

Canada doesn’t reward brands that wait. If your competitors are building relationships with Canadian designers, builders, and showrooms while you’re sitting it out, those connections don’t stay open indefinitely. Presence is a decision, and so is absence.

What Will the Kitchen + Bath Canada 2026 Experience Actually Look Like?

Kitchen + Bath Canada 2026 takes place November 11 and 12 in Toronto, bringing together a curated audience of designers, architects, custom builders, and showrooms—the specifiers and decision-makers actively shaping residential design projects across Canada.

This year’s show is organized around a creative theme called Naturally, a design-forward lens that shapes the floor experience, the storytelling, and product discovery across the event. Naturally is built around five pillars: texture, movement, material, light, and living. Each pillar connects specific product categories, from cabinetry and hardware to plumbing, fixtures, appliances, and lighting, to the broader shift toward calmer, more grounded, and authentically human residential spaces.

Beyond product discovery on the show floor, Kitchen + Bath Canada 2026 includes Centre Stage, sponsored by Monogram, which hosts the editorial programming shaping the show’s conversations. The goal throughout is a curated experience with meaningful business conversations, not just foot traffic for its own sake.

Addressing the Objections We Hear Most

We Already Exhibit at KBIS. Why Do We Need This Too?

KBIS connects brands with the broader North American industry. Kitchen + Bath Canada focuses specifically on Canadian designers, custom builders, and specifiers, many of whom source and work primarily within Canada. The two events serve different, complementary purposes.

Isn’t Canada Too Small a Market to Justify a Dedicated Show?

Canada’s renovation market generates more than 60 billion dollars annually, and kitchens and bathrooms are consistently the most renovated spaces in Canadian homes. The market is substantial. What’s been missing is a national platform built around it.

We Already Have Distribution in Canada. Do We Still Need to Exhibit?

Existing distribution is a foundation, not a finish line. Exhibiting at Kitchen + Bath Canada strengthens relationships with the Canadian showrooms and dealers you already work with while introducing your brand to new designers and builders actively specifying products.

We Don’t Have Budget for Another Show.

Brands get the most value from events that connect them directly to the market they’re trying to reach. Kitchen + Bath Canada puts your brand in front of an engaged audience of kitchen and bath specifiers and decision-makers actively shaping residential design projects across Canada, which is a different return than a broader, less targeted show.

What Were the Results From the Previous Version of This Show?

The earlier version of Kitchen & Bath Canada operated under different ownership and a different model. This year is a genuine relaunch, not a continuation. With NKBA’s Canadian chapters actively involved and leading Canadian designers embedded in the planning, the focus for 2026 is on bringing together a high-quality audience of kitchen and bath specifiers and decision-makers actively shaping residential design projects across Canada—and delivering a fundamentally different experience for anyone who’s exhibited before.

How Can My Brand Get Involved?

Kitchen + Bath Canada is the national platform Canada’s kitchen and bath industry has needed. For brands serious about this market, exhibiting here is a direct signal to the designers, builders, showrooms and specifiers shaping residential design projects across the country that you’re present, committed and invested in serving them well.

If you’re ready to put your brand in front of Canada’s kitchen and bath community, reach out to the Kitchen + Bath Canada team to explore exhibitor opportunities for November 11 and 12, 2026, in Toronto.