Highlighting the critical issues of Fair Trade, Handmade Expressions promotes its global product line at the California Gift Show®, January 18-21, 2008
Improving the livelihood of disadvantaged artisans through Fair Trade practices
Products by Handmade Expressions will help to promote an image of social responsibility, for your store, while contributing toward improving the lives of others. Partnering with grass-roots NGO artisan cooperatives, Handmade Expressions assists underprivileged and disadvantaged artisans around the world, guiding them to create high quality, trendy, handcrafted goods tailored for international markets. Many of these global communities are rich with local, traditional art forms, but lack the knowledge of and access to markets. The art forms produced are native to the artisan’s region, and utilize natural fibers and recycled materials wherever possible. Handmade Expressions’ mission is to create a global community for sharing traditional, rural artwork with urban cultures, across the world, preserving beautiful art forms and providing a dignified social standing for the artisans. Fair Trade is a growing trend in the United States and conscious buyers are demanding more and more fairly traded products and green goods from their local stores and chains. Handmade Expressions’ socially and environmentally responsible product line can be viewed at Handmade Expressions BAOlink premium vendor listing.
With ten product divisions and 1,200 exhibiting companies, the California Gift Show® at the Los Angeles Convention Center clearly is the place to be
The January 2008 California Gift Show® will be redesigned to house the show’s ten product divisions exclusively in the South and Kentia Halls at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This major West Coast trade show event regularly attracts about 22,000 buyers to each of its two shows, and organizers believe the new layout will offer buyers more efficient access to the products being presented by the expected 1,200 exhibiting companies. Be sure to visit Handmade Expressions at the California Gift Show®, in booth space #932. Additional contact and product information for Handmade Expressions can be found in the following BAOlink.com product subcategories: Ethnic Arts & Crafts, Handmade, and Stationery & Trend Merchandise.
In addition to providing the buyer with an opportunity to preview the newest product lines before they reach the market, the California Gift Show® offers a vast array of educational, and entertaining, programs and events designed to enhance your show experience.
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The BAOlink.com database provides free, 24/7 access for retail buyers to preview merchandise, gather critical product information and contact key industry individuals prior to the California Gift Show®, so time at the actual tradeshow event can be more productively spent. BAOlink.com also enables wholesale vendors, such as Handmade Expressions, to promote their products well beyond the confines of the actual tradeshow event.
In addition to exhibiting at the California Gift Show®, Handmade Expressions will also be exhibiting at the San Francisco International Gift Fair®, January 26-29, 2008, the New York International Gift Fair®, February 1-6, 2008, and the National Stationery Show®, May 18-21, 2008.
