AmericasMart Presents Industry’s Top Home and Gift Tradeshow
The industry’s leading Gift and Home Furnishings Market is bigger and better than ever with an impressive collection of temporary exhibitors presenting on-trend and in-demand product. From Thursday, January 9 through Monday, January 13, 2014, top lines from across the home and gift spectrum will fill AmericasMart’s 11-floor Temporary collection at The Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishing Market®.
“Once buyers experience AmericasMart’s temporaries, they will understand why Atlanta is acknowledged worldwide for offering the most expansive and most innovative products and collections found anywhere” says Jo Ann Miller Marshall, AmericasMart executive vice president of Tradeshows. “Our team travels the globe seeking out the newest and most unique products for our buyers. This, combined with other campus-wide innovations, will ensure that buyers have an amazing experience in Atlanta.”
The January 2014 Market features a new Thursday-to-Monday date pattern for its Temporary exhibitors, intended to better match retailers’ buying patterns. Buyers also will enjoy free Wi-Fi coverage as they explore the Market’s 37 Temporary categories, located throughout AmericasMart’s campus. The Temporary collection locations are:
Building 1
· Floor 1: HD Home (Juried Collection)
· Floor 7: Home Accents & Home Furnishings; Fine Linens & Home Textiles
Building 2
· Floor 1: HIGH DESIGN® (Juried Collection); High Design LUXE (Juried Collection)
· Floor 2: Gourmet Foods; Gourmet LUXE (Juried Collection)
· Floor 3: Living and Entertaining: Gifts, Tabletop & Accessories; Gourmet Housewares, Tabletop LUXE (Juried Collection)
· Floor 4: Birding & Backyard Nature; Coastal Lifestyles; Living. Outdoor/Indoor.® The Gardens.®; Gardens LUXE (Juried Collection)
Building 3
· Floor 1: Cash & Carry Jewelry; Holiday, Floral & Baskets; Halloween
· Floor 2: Emerging Artist (Juried Collection); Global Designs; Handmade Designs; Handmade Jewelry (Juried Collection); Made in America (Juried Collection); Museum Gifts & Fine Gifts
· Floor 3: Body & Soul Spa Products; Children’s World; Modern Baby & Contemporary Kid (Juried Collection)
· Floor 4: BOUTIQUE (Juried Collection); Down to Business; Jewelry & Fashion Accessories (Order-Writing Only); Luggage & Travel Accessories; Write On! Stationery, Paper, Occasions
· Floor 5: Collegiate Products, Tailgate; General Gift; General Gift (Juried Collection) Resort & Souvenir; Pampered Pets
NEW AND NOTABLE AT THE MARKET
Highlighting the Temporaries, the LUXE juried collections – High Design LUXE, Gourmet LUXE, Tabletop LUXE and Gardens LUXE – all showcase high quality luxury goods. January 2014 is the first time all are in place for the Market.
The incomparable HD Home collection returns to its Building 1 Floor 1 location with eight trend-making collections: Grace & Blake, Chelsea Textiles, Ltd., Lowcountry Originals, Emporium Home, Jamie Young Company, Marshall Clements, Design Legacy by Kelly O’Neal, and Dransfield & Ross, Ltd.
Celebrating design-driven, lifestyle-focused goods, the HIGH DESIGN juried collection features product from all price points by Eastern Accents, Inc., Diane James Designs, Inc., Mirror Image Home, Alicia Adams Alpaca and many more.
The Home Accents & Home Furnishings collection showcases home accessories and décor, lighting, wall art, mirrors, clocks, occasional furniture, bookcases, dining room furniture, upholstered furniture and case goods by design-driven lines including Amy Howard at Home, Abanja, Melange Home, Lulla Smith and Ziqi Lamps.
Complementing the Home Accents & Home Furnishings collection is Fine Linens & Home Textiles with a complete range of decorative soft goods and home textiles. Highlights of this collection are linens by Julian Mejia Design, Inc., pillows by Christen Maxwell and hand-printed textiles by Block & Brayer.
The diversity of the Gift industry is showcased in the General Gift category, with a spectrum of goods ranging from personal technology products to collectibles, games and hobby items presented by exhibitors including Red Cup Living, You Can’t Steal My Happy and Vinrella. The top picks in general gifts, hand–selected by AmericasMart’s gift experts – are featured in the General Gift Juried collection. Sought after lines including MacBeth Collection, Wild & Wolf and NPW present their collections in this exclusive category.
Game Day spirit fills the aisle of the Collegiate category with an expansive range of college logo-embellished products from gift, home accents and apparel lines including Lilly U, Olly Oxen, True Colors Leather & Travel Collection.
The festive Holiday, Floral & Baskets collection fills Building 3 Floor1 with seasonal decor, dried and silk flower products, floral supplies, ribbons, candles and more by industry leaders including David Christopher’s and Bright Ideas.
Additional Market information including a complete list of Temporary Exhibitors is available online at www.AmericasMart.com .
ABOUT AMERICASMART
AmericasMart Atlanta is the nation’s only global wholesale marketplace housing the world’s single-largest collection of home, gift, area rug and apparel merchandise. The largest of AmericasMart’s 14 annual Markets and shows, The Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market and The Atlanta International Area Rug Market in January and July are the ignition switch for global retailing with buyers from every U.S. state and more than 90 countries discovering product in more than 1,400 showrooms and more than 2,500 temporary exhibiting companies.
Located in downtown Atlanta, the AmericasMart complex contains more than seven million square feet of space. It’s a huge global stage on which manufacturers, designers and sales representatives unveil new lines, launch new designs and introduce new categories – all for the benefit of buyers seeking all that is fresh and first in the home, rug, gift and apparel arenas. For more information, please visitwww.AmericasMart.com. Follow us @AmericasMartATL or @AtlantaApparel.
