Jan 12, 2010

AmericasMart Celebrates Robust Buying at Market, Positive Outlook for 2010 From All Buyers, Exhibitors

Atlanta, GA—AmericasMart, in partnership with its exhibitors, has made the market with the nation’s first and largest 2010 home, rug and gift show delivering legions of retailers from across the U.S. and around the world in a non-stop run of robust, confident buying.

As the January 2010 Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market approaches the closing bell on Wednesday, domestic buyers from every U.S. state together with a major international presence—always significant in January and even more far-reaching in this show—are setting new AmericasMart benchmarks with sustained, aggressive order-writing and contagious optimism for the year ahead.  Powering the Atlanta January Market momentum is:

More new product introductions across more product categories, all in their 2010 U.S. premiere showing, and many making exclusive world debuts here;

An expectant, motivated exhibitor base of permanent showrooms and temporaries who regularly partner with AmericasMart and who for January 2010 are fully engaged in collaborative marketing communications and promotional channels and opportunities elevating their business;

A strong, highly qualified buyer population of the Top 100 U.S. stores, specialty shops, multi-store retailers, including AmericasMart veterans and first-timers, all choosing to do business in a marketplace of time-tested value proven over more than a half-century of service.

Across all permanent product centers and all temporaries categories, robust January buying affirms the confidence of retailers and designers responding to new introductions, new lines and designs and signals the promise and potential of 2010 consumer demand for new value and selection.  Now in its seventh day, the market continues to register national and international retailers, as well as southeast regional customers, all here to vote with their January 2010 open-to-buy, and welcomed by exhibitors ready for business—many with added sales staff to meet surging demand.  The home and gift market momentum echoes that of the Atlanta International Area Rug Market featuring the National Oriental Rug Show, which closed Sunday to strong reviews on the heels of steady buying and selling elevating area rug importers’ and manufacturers’ 2010 business prospects.  Capping the rug market’s vitality was capacity attendance at the 2010 America’s Magnificent Carpets Awards, where more than 1,000 retailers, manufacturers and importers gathered to celebrate the area rug industry’s highest design achievements in a gala evening sponsored exclusively by Architectural Digest.

With many exhibitors reporting record sales—some breaking twenty-year-old totals—the January Market gives strong evidence to the power and reach of the collective and collaborative efforts linking AmericsaMart and its exhibitors in common mission and purpose, all in service to the global retail community and all to set a solid business foundation for 2010 and beyond.