Mud Pie launches new collection of plush toys, gifts

Mud Pie debuts a new assortment of plush toys and gifts for the Spring/Summer 2025 season. The collection, which is available for purchase today, features more than 60 charming new characters, each with their own... more »

Gifts & Gardening: Clay Garden & Gifts combines community, seaside charm

As seen in Waterfront Living 2024. Clay Garden and Gifts opened in 2012 after a downturn in the economy and an oil spill... more »

Seaside Serenity: Products that exude coastal living

Coastal living doesn't need to be exclusive to summer. Here we present curated collections to help your customers bring waterfront life inside and outside of their homes year-round. Seaside Stationery Cozy & Coastal Sunny Style... more »

Keep US Posted supports ‘USPS SERVES US Act’

Keep US Posted — a nonprofit advocacy group of consumers, nonprofits, newspapers, greeting card publishers, magazines, catalogs, forestry and recycling interests, and small businesses — declared support for new legislation to restore fiscal stability and... more »

Winter 2025’s Atlanta Market provides must-see muses in gift, home categories

Winter 2025’s Atlanta Market boasts unique discovery opportunities with updates in all categories, offering more brands across more categories than any other market. Highlights, including the Winter debut of a reimagined Gardens category and The... more »

Home vs Hunger returns to High Point Market with a new fundraising goal

Gift for Life’s Home vs Hunger team brings its signature “Party with a Purpose” fundraising event back to Fall High Point Market, on Sunday, Oct. 27 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Eichholtz Showroom,... more »

NRF: US households have the ‘underpinnings to spend’

Retail sales continued to grow in August, fueled by rising wages amid falling inflation, said Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist of the National Retail Federation (NRF). “These numbers show the continued resiliency of the American consumer,”... more »

Successful Fall Casual Market Atlanta solidifies return to semi-annual market cadence

The return of the Fall edition of Casual Market Atlanta, which ran Sept. 15 – 18 at AmericasMart Atlanta, reestablished the important twice-yearly cadence for the outdoor and casual furnishings industry buying event, providing a... more »

Shop on the Shore: Oropa

Ever since its Earth Day opening in 2016, Oropa has aimed to provide eco-friendly and socially responsible products to Duxbury, Massachusetts. “Oropa” comes from the Sanctuary of Oropa in Biella, Italy, a World Heritage UNESCO... more »

Nearly half of Halloween shoppers to purchase items before October

Early Halloween shopping is on the rise, with 47% of survey participants beginning their shopping before October, according to the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics. [caption id="attachment_89982" align="alignright"... more »