Gifts & Decorative Accessories News

• Stationery: Notes with the Past
  
  GDA Staff, April 13, 2012
    Mini notebook with romantic vintage imagery is perfect for tucking into a purse to jot a quick note-to-self or make a to-do list.
  
• Totsy Reveals Motherly Shopping Habits
  
  Tina Benitez-Eves, April 13, 2012
    NEW YORK — Shopping mothers are spending more on beauty, home decor and furnishings and accessories, according to the latest report from Totsy, an online private sale site for mothers and their children.
  
• Children's Gifts: Sportable Lunches
  
  GDA Staff, April 12, 2012
    Kids can tote their lunches and snacks to school or to sports practice in fun new sports-themed lunch boxes in four styles: Soccer, Basketball, Hockey and Football.
  
• Gift Books: Breakfast Time
  
  GDA Staff, April 11, 2012
    Cereal is one of two soon-to-be released titles in a new Timeline Books collection focusing on fun facts and information on pop culture subjects.
  
• Joseph Joseph Wins Patent Case in China
  
  GDA Staff, April 10, 2012
    NEW YORK — Contemporary kitchenware makers, Joseph Joseph, win patent case in China after a group of Chinese companies produced illegal copies of the company's Index Chopping Board.
  
• Stationery:For the Love of Nature
  
  GDA Staff, April 10, 2012
    The Nature Collection of magnets, notecards and recipe cards is new from It Takes Two.
  
• Merchandise Mart Merges Showroom Floors
  
  GDA Staff, April 9, 2012
  CHICAGO — The Merchandise Mart will reconfigure the current gift showroom floors in an attempt to better serve retailers.
  
• Mark Furlet Joins AmericasMart Atlanta
  
  GDA Staff, April 9, 2012
    ATLANTA — AmericasMart Atlanta has hired Mark Furlet as senior vice president/leasing in the Home category for permanent showrooms of Building 1.
  
• Product Wire
  
  GDA Staff, April 9, 2012
    For Retailers: Products new to the market
  
• Stationery: Greetings for All Occasions
  
  GDA Staff, April 9, 2012
    Design Design has broadened its offering of greeting cards to include more handmade, humorous, graphic and traditional designs to give retailers the right range of social expressions.for everyday, as well as occasions.
  
• Stationer Smock Launches Dirty Gold Awareness Campaign
  
  GDA Staff, April 6, 2012
  SYRACUSE, NY - Letterpress stationery and invitation manufacturer Smock has launched a promotional campaign to increase awareness among its customers, dealers and the wedding community in general about dirty gold mining practices
  
• Home: Crow Bowls
  
  GDA Staff, April 6, 2012
    Jim Loewer Glass' crow bowls add a touch of decor in the kitchen, living room or as a catchall for keys and loose change.
  
• Home: Vinyl Coasters
  
  GDA Staff, April 5, 2012
    Reminisce about an album or song each time you drink with Vinylux LP Coasters.
  
• Home: Chinese Porcelain
  
  GDA Staff, April 4, 2012
    Hand-painted fireflies, Audubon birds, butterflies, grasshoppers and other creatures delicately decorate the pearly, Chinese porcelain from Middle Kingdom's Scholar Series.
  
• Kenny Loggins to be ICON HONORS 2012 Musical Entertainment
  
  GDA Staff, April 3, 2012
    DATE CORRECTION:
  ATLANTA - Kenny Loggins, the Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist, will be the featured musical entertainer at ICON HONORS 2012 this July during the Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market at Americasmart.
  
• Fashion: Mod Aprons
  
  GDA Staff, April 3, 2012
    Jessie Steele aprons and kitchenware make cooking more fun with French lace, gingham, polka dots, toile, houndstooth and more.
  
• ARTS Call for Nominations
  
  GDA Staff, April 2, 2012
  DALLAS —  Dallas Market Center and the Accessories Resource Team (ART) are calling for nominations for the 24th annual ARTS Awards.
  
• Candles: Geometric
  
  GDA Staff, April 2, 2012
    Contemporary with a little futuristic touch, geometric-shaped candles can double as a work of art.
  
• Product Wire
  
  GDA Staff, April 2, 2012
    For Retailers: Products new to the market
  
• Phase Three of NYIGF Reorg Starts this Summer
  
  GDA Staff, March 30, 2012
  WHITE PLAINS, NY — The third phase of a multi-year reorganization of the New York International Gift Fair will begin at this year's summer market.