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A new “neighborhood” of publishers and social stationery suppliers will have its debut at the summer 2010 New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF), enabling buyers to quickly source and shop this popular product category. Located within the NYIGF’s General Gift division, this focused grouping of exhibitors will provide a consolidated resource for specialty paper, note cards, journals, writing instruments and publishing.

Comprised of current exhibitors, as well as newcomers to NYIGF, the stationery neighborhood will include leading social stationery suppliers such as Calypso Cards, Found Image Press, Knock Knock, Nelson Lines, Notes & Queries and Pomegranate Press, as well as a grouping of key publishers, including Harper Collins Publishers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Macmillan, Random House Inc., Rizzoli and Workman Publishing.

“Creation of this new stationery neighborhood creates greater efficiencies for buyers,” said Dorothy Belshaw, NYIGF director and GLM senior vice president. “We have strategically positioned this new neighborhood within General Gift and in close proximity to Baby & Child, EX·TRACTS and Personal Accessories, in order to maximize cross-category adjacencies and synergies.”

Some 40 exhibitors in the stationery neighborhood will be located in the 7500 aisle on Level One of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The list of confirmed participants, to date, includes:

a Card for Life/JILLANNE
B. Shackman Company, Inc.
Bottman Design
Calypso Cards, Inc.
Cat Fish Design
Found Image Press
Galison Books
Giftsland
Harper Collins Publishers
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
International Arrivals LLC
Knock Knock
Laughing Elephant
Macmillan
Michael Roger Press, Inc.
Mudlark
Nelson Line
Notes & Queries, Inc.
Pomegranate Communications Inc.
Quiplip Card
Random House Inc.
Rizzoli International Publications
Rock of Ages Press
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
TIDE-MARK
Tuttle Publishing
Wes Loker & Associates/Paperoverdrive
Workman Publishing
Xonex

The creation of this new stationery neighborhood is a component of “Focus Forward 2013,” a strategic three-year reorganization of NYIGF. In summer 2013, when all planned changes are complete, the stationery neighborhood will be presented as part of NYIGF Lifestyle, one of four comprehensive market collections – comprised of personal care and wellness, gift and stationery, fashion accessories and Baby & Child.

The summer 2010 NYIGF takes place Aug. 14-19 at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger Ship Terminal Piers 92 and 94. Information and registration is available at www.nyigf.com.