NYIGF Summer 2009 Dates and Location Changes
White Plains, NY — George Little Management, LLC (GLM®) has announced that the summer 2009 edition of the New York International Gift Fair® (NYIGF®) will run Saturday, August 15, through Thursday, August 20, 2009, at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, and Passenger Ship Terminal Piers 92 and 94.
NYIGF will return to its traditional Saturday-Thursday staggered opening/closing date pattern. From Saturday through Wednesday, New York’s Newest and Studio™ will be open at Pier 92, At Home will be open at Pier 94, and Handmade will be open at Javits. All other NYIGF divisions (Accent on Design®, At Home featuring Home Textiles, EX•TRACTS ®, General Gift, Personal Accessories and Tabletop & Housewares) will run Sunday through Thursday at the Javits Center.
Other summer market highlights include the expansion of two divisions and repositioning of Pier exhibits to facilitate traffic flow and cross-category buying opportunities. At the Javits Center, EX•TRACTS will increase its personal care resources by 50%; and Personal Accessories featuring Details will increase its wearables and fashion accessories by 35%. At the Piers, New York’s Newest, a “launching pad” of newcomers to NYIGF, will relocate from Pier 90 to Pier 92, to run alongside Studio; and At Home will be presented on Pier 94.
New York International Gift Fair®
August 15-20, 2009
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, Passenger Ship Terminal Piers 92 and 94
New York City
www.nyigf.com
Summer market highlights will include:
NYIGF features 2,900 exhibiting companies in nearly 600,000 net square feet of exhibit space. The Fair’s nine carefully categorized divisions allow buyers to shop deeply by product interest or broadly across categories. Buyers from all 50 states and around the world are expected to attend.
The SustainAbility: design for a better world® display and seminar series will return with a curated exhibit of the newest global gift and home industry suppliers whose products or production processes are eco-friendly, as well as companies whose business practices are socially responsible, philanthropic or fair-trade oriented.
A full range of educational seminars addressing sustainability, color and design trends, and retail strategies will be offered for market participants. After-hours entertainment, such as “A Night on Broadway,” featuring West Side Story; and the 58th annual Gifts & Decorative Accessories Retail Excellence Awards, will offer “only in New York” experiences.
The New York International Gift Fair is the nation’s premier gift and home accessories marketplace, featuring an extraordinary depth and breadth of design-driven home fashion products and complementary giftware. NYIGF runs concurrently with Home Textiles Market Week® at NYIGF (Javits Center and Piers) 230 Fifth Avenue and 7 West 34th Street.
