May 29, 2014

AmericasMart Produces Largest Home and Gift Tradeshow of The Summer

AmericasMart® Atlanta’s 35 trade show categories and more than 2,500 temporary exhibiting companies at The Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market (Tuesday, July 8 – Tuesday, July 15) offer a depth and breadth of trend-making gift and home décor products unmatched by any other domestic tradeshow this summer. The magnitude of product introductions combined with AmericasMart’s industry-leading tradeshow acumen makes the July 2014 Temporary Market (Thursday, July 10 – Monday, July 14) the top wholesale marketplace for the global retail community.

“The excitement for the July Market is palpable,” says Jo Ann Miller Marshall, executive vice president of Tradeshows for AmericasMart. “Our exhibitors are eager to show off new lines and products, and our buyers cannot wait to visit their existing vendors and to discover new collections.”

Updates at the July 2014 Market are the debut of Gentlemen’s Boutique, a juried collection showcasing top lifestyle products for men, and the re-launch of the celebrated juried general gift collection as On Trend Gifts.

Gentlemen’s Boutique features an impressive inaugural class with collections from Collard Greens, Bird Dog Bay, Inc., Just Madras, LLC., Smathers and Branson, Josh Bach Limited and more. The innovative assemblage is a result of AmericasMart’s recognition of the increasing focus on and demand for men’s personal products across the retail spectrum. The collection is located on Building 3, Floor 4.

The renaming of the On Trend Gifts Collection reflects the next “big thing” in gift items. The globally influenced juried collection of design-driven, contemporary gift items includes unique, interesting, edgy, clever and fun products from CardBoard Safari, Cognitive Surplus, FCTRY, Flight 001, Inc., Freaker USA, Jim Spinx, The MacBeth Collection, Mustard, NPW, Nuop Design, Resource International Inc., Time Concept, Inc., Unemployed Philosopher’s Guild, Vital Industries and Wild and Wolf Inc. On Trend Gifts is located on Building 3, Floor 5.

Always at the forefront of trending products and the ultimate source for what is fresh and new, the Market’s carefully curated collections allow buyers to source cutting-edge products for discerning customers.

AmericasMart’s signature HD Home collection also offers a fresh group of design-driven lines with many new-to-market collections. The Building 1, Floor 1 collection showcases Chelsea Textiles, Ltd., Design Legacy ATELIER, Dransfield & Ross, Ltd., Emporium Home, Jamie Young Company, Lowcountry Originals, Marshall Clements and NOTRE MONDE.

As consumers are increasingly concerned with the origins of their goods, retailers looking to source artisan items are drawn to the juried Made in America, Global Design,Handmade Design and Handmade Jewelry collections on Building 3, Floor 2. The growing Made in America collection features a wide range of American-made gifts and decor items from lines such as Rewined Candles, Wendell August, Lizzy J’s, Second Nature by Hand, The Greenbriar, Odd Balls, Katahdin Mats, Ce Ce Caldwell’s Paints and more. Global Designs, AmericasMart’s “people positive” collection, features artisan-quality, handmade crafts from across the world from dZi Inc., Cluturas, Acacia Creations, Pampeana Glass Art and others. The Handmade Design collection incorporates a variety of quality, handmade products by Stresstheseams, Luke Adams Glass, Miss Rose Sister Violet, Vilmain, Glenda Gies, Monahan Papers and more. The Handmade Jewelry collection is highlighted by Metal Monk, Patricia Locke, Grandmother’s Buttons, Heather Haas, Rebel Designs among many others.

The focus on trend-making, design-driven products extends into children’s collections with Apple Park, Aden & Anais, Chewbeads, Zutano, Plenty and Urban Sundayhighlighting the Modern Baby & Contemporary Kid juried collection on Building 3, Floor 3 and Bla Bla extending the product category in to the HIGH DESIGN® collection on Building 2 Floor 1.

The Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market TEMPORARY collections are conveniently located throughout the Market in the following locations:

Building 1

Floor 1 – HD Home

Floor 7 – Home Accents, Home Furnishings, Home Textiles, Fine Linens

Building 2

Floor 1 – HIGH DESIGN®; High Design LUXE

Floor 2 – Gourmet Foods; Gourmet LUXE

Floor 3 – Gourmet Housewares; Living and Entertaining: Gifts, Tabletop & Accessories;

Tabletop LUXE

Floor 4 – Birding & Backyard Nature; Coastal Lifestyles; Living. Outdoor / Indoor®. The

Gardens®.

Building 3

Floor 1 – Halloween; Holiday, Floral, Baskets; Cash & Carry Jewelry

Floor 2 – Emerging Artists; Global Designs; Handmade Designs; Handmade Jewelry; Made In

America; Museum Gifts & Fine Gifts

Floor 3 – Body & Soul Spa Products; Children’s World; Modern Baby & Contemporary Kid

Floor 4 – Boutique; Down to Business; Jewelry & Fashion Accessories; Gentlemen’s Boutique;

Luggage & Travel Accessories; Write On!

Floor 5 – Collegiate Products, Tailgate; General Gifts; On Trend Gifts; Pampered Pets;

Souvenir, Resort & Novelty Gifts

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. ICON HONORS, the home and gift industry’s most celebrated recognition program, is produced and staged annually by AmericasMart.

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.