Major Table & Kitchen Suppliers To Be Featured At NYIGF
White Plains, NY — Buoyed by the improving economy, Tabletop & Housewares at the New York International Gift Fair® (NYIGF®) will welcome the return of leading design-focused lines and will accommodate the expansion of key tabletop and housewares suppliers for the winter 2011 market.
“These expansions and new introductions represent an exponential increase in new products and innovative resources at NYIGF,” said Dorothy Belshaw, NYIGF director and GLM senior vice president. “No other US market offers retailers such a broad collection of tabletop resources.”
Several companies from the U.S. and Europe will expand their exhibit space for the winter 2011 market: Deborah Rhodes (luxury table linens); Joseph Joseph (contemporary kitchen and cookware accessories); Mastrad (kitchenware and silicone utensils and gadgets); Picnic Time (picnic, outdoor, and lifestyle products); and Reed & Barton (sterling silver and stainless steel flatware).
Several design-oriented companies also will return to Tabletop & Housewares following an absence from the New York market: Alexandra Von Furstenberg (modern acrylic tabletop accessories); Mane Lion (hand-painted dinnerware and accessories); and Scantrends (Scandinavian housewares, collectibles, and accessories).
Additionally, Arbiter, a new wholesale division of Salt of the Earth (high-quality artisan items from Italy) and Make International (design-driven whiteware) will make their NY market debuts within Accent on Tabletop – a concentration of design-driven tabletop and home entertaining product suppliers bridging NYIGF’s Tabletop & Housewares and Accent on Design® divisions – this winter.
NYIGF presents the largest collection of tabletop resources in the USA , with some 500 suppliers of product for table and kitchen presented throughout its ten divisions. Tabletop & Housewares showcases a concentration of 220 leading brands and innovative new resources for table and kitchen – glassware, serveware, dinnerware, bakeware, kitchen gadgets, cutlery/flatware, kitchen textiles, table linens, barware and wine accessories – alongside hundreds more design-driven suppliers in Accent on Design and artisanal lines in Handmade®.
NYIGF runs Saturday, January 29, through Thursday, February 3, 2011, at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger Ship Terminal Piers 92 and 94. NYIGF is the nation’s premier gift, home and lifestyle marketplace, with 2,800 exhibiting companies featuring an extraordinary breadth and depth of design-driven home fashion products and complementary giftware. Some 35,000 attendees from all 50 states and more than 85 countries worldwide are expected. Information and registration is available online at www.nyigf.com.
