Dec 28, 2012

Nearly 400 International Companies From 43 Countries Will Participate in Winter NYIGF

Nearly 400 companies representing 43 countries around the world will participate in the winter edition of the New York International Gift Fair® (NYIGF®), January 26-30, 2013, at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger Ship Terminal’s Piers 92 & 94.

Most of these companies will be grouped together in 12 government-sponsored pavilions or organized groups, located in three of NYIGF’s ten divisions. Several others will participate in Artisan Resource™, a GLM tradeshow running concurrently with NYIGF, which connects international artisanal producers with U.S.-based volume importers, direct import retailers and wholesalers.

“Global resources can be found across NYIGF, spanning many product categories,” said Christian Falkenberg, NYIGF director and GLM vice president. “No other U.S. market offers attendees access to such a diverse range of international home, lifestyle and handmade resources.”

NYIGF exhibitors hail from 43 countries: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey and Vietnam.

Five international pavilions from France, Germany, Israel, Japan and the United Kingdom, will be located in NYIGF’s General Gift division. The British Jewellery & Giftware International and Germany’s Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH, Messe Stuttgart will be located in expanded exhibit space, with 16 and 17 companies participating, respectively. Israel Export Institute returns with seven companies; JETRO New York with 28 companies; and UBIFRANCE with 16 companies.

Within the juried Accent on Design® division, the British Design Group will return with three companies, and the “Accent on Japan” group, an independently-organized contingent, will return with four companies. Global suppliers of hand crafted products will be showcased in both sections of the Handmade division. Within Handmade® Designer Maker, Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH, Messe Stuttgart will return with 22 companies, and the British Contemporary Crafts group will include 17 companies. In Handmade® Global Design, the Israel Export Institute will represent two companies.

Two groups representing multiple suppliers of artisan resources will participate in Artisan Resource at New York’s Passenger Ship Terminal Pier 92. The Consulate General of Indonesia will participate with two companies, and the Dudhraj Global Business Network (P) Ltd. from Nepal will represent ten companies.

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. The winter market takes place Saturday January 26, through Wednesday, January 30, 2013, at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger Ship Terminal Piers 92 and 94. Some 35,000 attendees from all 50 states and more than 80 countries worldwide are expected. Information and registration is available online at www.nyigf.com.