Gifts & Decorative Accessories News

• Oriental Trading Files for Bankruptcy
  
  GDA Staff, August 26, 2010
  Omaha, NE — Home décor and novelty vendor Oriental Trading filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Wilmington, Delaware.
  
• Stationery: Water Cooler Chatter
  
  GDA Staff, August 26, 2010
    Office Life is part of the Just Say'n collection of conversation blocks from Punch Studio.
  
• San Francisco Music Box Changes Hands
  
  GDA Staff, August 25, 2010
  Prairie Village, KS — Online Holding Company of Prairie Village acquired The San Francisco Music Box Company (SFMB) from Calendar Holdings LLC (Calendar Club) of Austin, TX.
  
• Decorative Accessories: The Flow of Time
  
  GDA Staff, August 25, 2010
    Bedol's Smiley Alarm Clock helps to reduce the carbon footprint — it is powered by water.
  
• Overstock.com Launches Eziba Website for Home Decor Products
  
  Susan Dickenson, Home Accents Today staff, August 24, 2010
  Salt Lake City, UT - Overstock.com Inc. today announced the launch of Eziba.com, a private sale website offering home decor products from multiple brands.
  
• NYIGF Eco-Choice Awards Winners Chosen
  
  GDA Staff, August 24, 2010
  White Plains, NY — Three products, of the more than 250 eligible, were selected by retailers to receive Eco Choice Awards.
  
• Home Fragrance: Seasonal Scenting
  
  GDA Staff, August 24, 2010
    New from Candle Warmers Etc., the Jack-O-Lantern Illumination Fragrance Warmer adds a little seasonal accent to décor while scenting the home.
  
• Direct from Market: Sao Paulo, Brazil
  
  Quinn Halford, August 23, 2010
  Brazil's House & Gift Fair South America celebrates 20 years.
  
• Update: Barnes & Noble Set for Proxy Battle
  
  GDA Staff, August 23, 2010
  New York — Delaware Judge Leo E. Strine Jr. upheld bookstore chain Barnes & Noble's ‘poison pill' provision.
  
• OKA b. Donates Shoes
  
  GDA Staff, August 23, 2010
  Buford, GA — For every pair of shoes sold online during the month of October, OKA b. will donate one pair of The Madison Slide to breast cancer patients currently going through treatment.
  
• Stationery: Decorative Dates
  
  GDA Staff, August 23, 2010
    For 25 years, Linnea Design has presented poster calendars that are as much art as they are calendars. The 2011 Linnea Poster Calendar features 12 colorful graphic illustrations by Johanna Kriesel.
  
• Business Forum - Quick Change Artistry
  
  Linda Cahan, August 21, 2010
  Change makes sales happen. People start seeing old things that now appear fresh and new. Some ideas for quick changes that won't take up a ton of time: Add a fabulous prop such as flowers, tree branches, a chair or a sign.
  
• bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy
  
  Pamela Brill, August 21, 2010
  Redesigning and relocating an already established retail location can be a tough nut to crack. But for the folks at bluecashew Kitchen Pharmacy, it was a necessary change that was made more palatable by its loyal customer base.
  
• Business Forum - Artistic Gifts
  
  Tina Benitez, August 21, 2010
  Even after 15 years, Handmade Galleries, Sherman Oaks, CA, continues to offer some of the most unique, artist-designed items anywhere. Owner and founder, Andy Spyros, talks about keeping her 5,000- sq.-ft. store full of, life, love, art and levity.
  
• Holiday: A Living Tradition
  
  GDA Staff, August 3, 2010
    Large handmade wooden menorah has trays that can be wrapped in foil for use during the Jewish holidays or left unwrapped for year round display.
  
• Retailer Excellence Awards - Rising Star: Lindsay Phillips
  
  Pamela Brill, August 20, 2010
  When it comes to building a burgeoning business, Lindsay Phillips is one entrepreneur who knows the importance of putting your best foot forward.
  
• Business Forum - Income and Identity
  
  Carol L Schroeder, August 20, 2010
  Now that our store is six years old, sales have leveled off - but our expenses have not, and now our landlord is raising our rent on January 1. How can we get our sales to grow?
  
• Valuing Quality
  
  Caroline Kennedy, August 20, 2010
  Quality for products and services used to be something that consumers valued; they were willing to pay a little more for that something extra - be it more personal service or an item constructed of better materials and workmanship and made to last.
  
• Direct from Market: New York
  
  Bessie Nestoras, Meredith Schwartz and Caroline Kennedy, August 19, 2010
  The summer edition of the New York Gift Market, made up of the New York International Gift Fair, 7W New York, 230 Fifth Avenue and 41 Madison, has been met with happy vendors. Several manufacturers Gifts & Decorative Accessories spoke to said they were having a great show.
  
• Toys: What's Bugging You?
  
  GDA Staff, August 3, 2010
    Funtastic Discovery Bug Cage measures 6¾"x6½" and comes with bug catching equipment.