Feb 10, 2010

Outstanding Exhibitor Award Winners Announced at California Gift Show

Los Angeles, CA – Leading exhibitors were honored with Outstanding Exhibitor Awards at the California Gift Show® located at the Los Angeles Convention Center and the L.A. Mart, January 12-18. Winners were selected by an internal committee and were judged on product innovation, booth presentation, participation, attitude and more. The award winners below exemplify the best and the brightest at this year’s market. The awards themselves were conceived to spotlight outstanding contributions.

Los Angeles Convention Center Outstanding Exhibitor Award Winners:

Gourmet Outstanding Exhibitor Award
Chai, Baby!, www.chaibaby.com
Chai, Baby!’s all natural, luxury teas contain top quality tea leaves, spices and flowers, expertly blended with true artistry.

Seasonal Outstanding Exhibitor Award
Superior Studio Specialties, www.superiorstudio.com
Superior Studio Specialties has over 30 years experience and carries one of the largest inventories of wholesale visual merchandise: props, ornaments, lights, foliage, flowers, seasonal decoratives and photographic supplies.

Kids Outstanding Exhibitor Award
Boo Boo Bling, www.boobooblingshop.com
Boo-Boo-Bling is the inventor of acrylic rhinestone decorations for bandages. They come in a number of colors and patterns to add sparkle to your everyday bandage.

Boutique Outstanding Exhibitor Award
Lollia, www.lollialife.com
Lollia is a world of luxurious body products created with lovely details, blushing fragrances and flirtatious touches.

Stationery Outstanding Exhibitor Award
Studio Daedre www.studiodaedre.com
Clean sophisticated stationery and gifts: Greeting Cards, Weddings, Note Cards, Photo Albums, Stationery,and Invitations.

Resort Outstanding Exhibitor Award
Earth Nymph

Gift Outstanding Exhibitor Award
Zappo BZ/Trans Ocean www.zappobz.com
ZappoBZ is a wholesale / manufacturing company that has been a leader in LED curtains and Bead-related Home Decor since the 1980’s.

Beckman’s West Outstanding Exhibitor Award
Blossom Pillows www.blossompillows.com
Blossom Pillows have developed a line of timeless decorative home accessories that reflect both love and respect for nature by capturing those beautiful elements in the designs and the products that they produce.

Fashion Outstanding Exhibitor Award
Paul Beisler & Company

Jewelry Outstanding Exhibitor Award
The Lizou Collection www.thelizoucollection.com
The Lizou Collection is comprised of custom designed jewelry pieces made of silver alloy or brass that are imported from France.

World Style Outstanding Exhibitor Award
The Sankofa Center www.thesankofacenter.org
The mission of The Sankofa Center for African Dance & Culture is to utilize traditional African dance, music, and drama to preventatively educate youths & adults about HIV/AIDS, and provide free counseling, rapid HIV/AIDS testing, & life-saving drugs for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Vintage Outstanding Exhibitor Award
Austin Woodhenge www.austinwoodhenge.com
Austin Woodhenge is a collaboration of work by artisans Don and Kathy Gross. They make small handmade and handpainted furniture that has an aged look and will last a lifetime.
L.A. Mart Outstanding Exhibitor Award Winners:
Objects With Purpose, www.objectswithpurpose.com
Objects With Purpose offers conscious, conscientious, organic, thoughtful gifts with a purpose.

Keep in Touch www.keepintouchgreetings.com
Keep In Touch is based in Central California and creates greeting cards and photo albums all made on the finest specialized papers with 3-D embellishments.

Kosmopolitan Trading Inc, www.kosmowholesale.com
Kosmopolitan Trading Inc offers unique and distinctive resort wear for any occasion.

Moorcroft Pottery www.moorcroft.com
Moorcroft Pottery is an art pottery now more than a hundred years old, fiercely independent, small and almost alone in its pursuit of quality at the highest level of the applied arts.

SAVE THE DATE:
Spring Gift + Home Market, L.A. Mart
Sunday, March 14 – Tuesday, March 16, 2010

July California Gift Show®
L.A. Mart Showrooms
Tuesday, July 13 – Monday, July 19, 2010
Temporaries at Los Angeles Convention Center & L.A. Mart
Friday, July 16 – Monday, July 19, 2010

For more award winner images please visit www.californiagiftshow.com.

L.A. Mart® is a registered trademark of MMPI. The California Gift Show® is a registered trademark of MMPI. Beckman’s Handcrafted Gift Show is a registered trademark of MMPI. L.A. Mart is home tonearly 200 permanent year-round, residential, decorative accessory and gift showrooms serving the retail and interior design industries. The California Gift Show and L.A. Mart Temporaries features over 800 temporary exhibitors of lifestyle merchandise, home décor and furnishings, in the newly enhanced and expanded Temporaries @ L.A. Mart, and Los Angeles Convention Center making the New California Gift Show the preeminent market for gift and home furnishings products on the West Coast. L.A. Mart is located at 1933 South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90007. For more information call 213-763-5800 or visitwww.lamart.com

MMPI is a trade show and property management firm, specializing in managing buildings devoted to wholesale showrooms and commercial office space. MMPI produces more than 300 trade shows, market events and conferences each year. MMPI manages The Merchandise Mart and 350 W. Mart Center in Chicago; Market Square, the Suites at Market Square, Hamilton Market, Plaza Suites, Furniture Plaza and the National Furniture Mart in High Point, N.C.; the Architects & Designers Building and 7 W New York in New York; the Boston Design Center in Boston; the L.A. Mart in Los Angeles; and the Washington Design Center in Washington D.C.

Vornado Realty Trust, owner of MMPI, based in New York City, is a fully integrated real estate investment trust. Vornado’s common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and are traded under the symbol VNO.