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Ivystone, Rifle Paper Co. establish nationwide partnership
Ivystone, a sales agency in the gift and home industry, launched a new, nationwide partnership with stationery and lifestyle brand, Rifle Paper Co. The partnership is effective immediately and includes placement of the popular brand in Ivystone’s Atlanta, Dallas and Las Vegas showrooms for the ... READ MORE »
SHOW T.O. expands for January 2024 event
SHOW T.O., Canada's permanent showroom venue for the gift and home trade, expanded its showroom collective with the addition of four new permanent showroom members. SHOW T.O., which already boasts over 110,000 square feet dedicated to servicing Canadian retailers, design professionals and media, ... READ MORE »
Atlanta Market names 40 Winter 2024 ‘Market Snapshot’ finalists
“People’s Choice” voting is open now through Jan. 15 for the Winter 2024 Atlanta Market edition of Market Snapshot, a showcase of 40 new and inventive products from its gift and home exhibitors. Buyers are invited to select their favorites via online voting, with winners to be announced on ... READ MORE »
Las Vegas Market opens ticket giveaway for U2 at the Sphere
Las Vegas Market is hosting a giveaway, offering pre-registered buyers an opportunity to win tickets to see U2 at the Sphere on Saturday, Jan. 27, the day before the winter buying event, Jan. 28-Feb. 1 at World Market Center Las Vegas. To be eligible to win "U2: UV Achtung Baby” concert tickets... READ MORE »
Retail sales grow this holiday season
U.S. retail sales — excluding automotive — increased 3.1% year over year this holiday season, according to preliminary insights from Mastercard SpendingPulse. This measures in-store and online retail sales, running from Nov. 1 through Dec. 24, across all forms of payment and is not adjusted for ... READ MORE »
Joan Ulrich retires from Dallas Market Center
Joan Ulrich, who has spent decades in leadership roles across the market center and trade show landscape, from Chicago to New York to Los Angeles to Dallas, is retiring in March 2024. For the past five years Ulrich has served as executive vice president of hardgoods leasing for Dallas Market Cent... READ MORE »
Gift for Life relaunches website, creates single destination for donors
Gift for Life, a charitable organization in the gift and home industries, is kicking off the new year with a newly redesigned website. Giftforlife.org is designed to be a clean, easy-to-navigate website that allows both existing donors and potential donors to easily read up on the organization’... READ MORE »
NRF says $743B in merchandise returned in 2023
Total returns for the industry amounted to $743 billion in merchandise in 2023, according to a report released by the National Retail Federation and Appriss Retail. As a percentage of sales, the total return rate for 2023 was 14.5%. According to the report, for every $1 billion in sales, the aver... READ MORE »
Papersalt launches sister brand for expanded giftware
Papersalt will debut its sister brand, Salty, in January 2024. [caption id="attachment_88257" align="alignright" width="235"] Photo courtesy of Papersalt/Salty[/caption] The new line includes more traditional gift categories, expanding the company’s offerings beyond Papersalt’s current boo... READ MORE »
ANDMORE welcomes industry partners for winter markets
ANDMORE is hosting 23 buying groups for education and networking this winter at its Atlanta Market (Jan. 16-22, 2024, at AmericasMart Atlanta) and Las Vegas Market (Jan. 28 – Feb. 1, 2024, at World Market Center Las Vegas), with four new industry partnership initiatives launching for 2024, in addi... READ MORE »
