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Stationery Trends and Gift Shop Plus prepare to honor Gift + Stationery 40 Under 40 honorees

Stationery Trends and Gift Shop® Plus have announced that the highly anticipated Gift + Stationery 40 Under 40 Awards will once again be held in-person on July 24, 2022 in partnership with Las Vegas Market. This year, the event will be a celebration of current, past and future honorees and will pro... READ MORE »

GCA celebrates the winners of the 2022 Noted @ *Noted Greeting Card Competition

The Greeting Card Association (GCA) announced the winners in the third annual Noted @ *Noted Products Awards Competition. The awards ceremony marked the kickoff of the industry’s annual greeting card focused tradeshow, *Noted: The Greeting Card Expo, held in San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center Apr... READ MORE »

Totalee Gift brand transitions to Ivystone in the Southwest

Totalee Gift has announced a representation transition to Ivystone in the Southwest that will be effective in May 2022. Totalee Gift's Ivystone sales representative coverage will be added to Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. Nebraska and Iowa will now be represented by Twist... READ MORE »

JuniperMarket increases women-owned resources

JuniperMarket is committed to increasing access to women-owned businesses with nearly 150 brands from the recently acquired Dough Collective confirmed to start selling on the newly launched B2B digital marketplace powered by International Market Centers (IMC). “JuniperMarket is moving rapidly f... READ MORE »

GCA releases 2022 Louie Award winners

The Greeting Card Association (GCA) celebrated excellence in greeting cards on April 27, at its 33rd Annual Louie Awards ceremony held at Gallery 308 on the campus of the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. Winners of the prestigious awards were announced from among 612 entries in 51 categorie... READ MORE »

Messe Frankfurt India Trade Fairs offers three exhibitions in May

Messe Frankfurt India Trade Fairs India Pvt Ltd together with Gifts & Accessories, the Exhibition Division of Netlink Solutions (India) Ltd, are ready to ring up the curtain on Paperworld India, Corporate Gifts Show and Interior Lifestyle India presented by Ambiente India 2022 in Mumbai. Bringin... READ MORE »

NRF expects Mother’s Day spending to reach $31.7 billion this year

Mother’s Day spending is expected to total $31.7 billion this year, up $3.6 billion from 2021’s record spending, according to the annual consumer survey released today by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. Approximately 84% of U.S. adults are expected to celebr... READ MORE »

Precious Moments adds John Plys to its team

John Plys, a veteran toy and gift industry executive, joins the Precious Moments Family of Companies, Inc. team as chief executive officer. Plys has spent the past 15-plus years leading toy/gift/novelty companies and has a proven track record in achieving substantial sales growth and profits, invigo... READ MORE »

Quilling Card celebrates two GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS titles

Quilling Card is the new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title holder for the largest quilling paper mosaic. The artwork – a rendition of Vincent Van Gogh’s famous Starry Night painting – stands 15.09 feet tall and 19.07 feet wide and was made entirely of rolled, shaped and glued strips of paper to cel... READ MORE »

Las Vegas Market FIRST LOOK trends

LVM highlights three new FIRST LOOK trends for this summer

The proprietary FIRST LOOK forecast from Las Vegas Market features three new trends – Beach Bound, Overlay and Purple Prose – inspired by destinations, moods and popular colors. These trends will be showcased through product available at the market via programming, vignettes, a guidebook and mor... READ MORE »

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