New York’s Newest Launches New Companies at Metropolitan Pavilion

New York’s Newest, the launching pad for companies new to NYIGF®, will feature 200 companies on three levels at the Metropolitan Pavilion. This concentration of new exhibitors, within New York’s Newest, makes it easier for buyers to source and shop newcomers to NYIGF. (more…)

As the nation’s premier gift and home accessory marketplace, with 2,800+ exhibitors featuring an extraordinary breadth and depth of design-driven home fashion products and complementary giftware, the New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF) is held concurrently with EX*TRACTS at the Javits Center, Metropolitan Pavilion and Piers 92 & 94, and with Home Textiles Market Week at NYIGF, 230 Fifth Avenue and 7 West 34th Street. Some 40,000 buyers from around the world are expected to attend. (more…)

More than 1,100 exhibitors from around the country will be presenting over 100,000 specialty foods products at the NASFT 33rd Winter Fancy Food Show®, held in the San Diego Convention Center, January 13-15, 2008. A large number of local, West Coast manufacturers with regional or ethnic products will be in attendance. A prime example is Red & Green Company of San Francisco. These manufacturers, many of whom are the entrepreneurs who developed the recipes and started their companies, will be available to provide you with firsthand knowledge of their products. Discover and sample new product lines and items that will add distinction and appeal to your retail establishment.

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- Show to Focus On Green Products, Museum Gifts and Wine Accessories -

WHITE PLAINS, NY, October 26, 2007…Embracing San Francisco’s unique identity, the upcoming San Francisco International Gift Fair® will focus on what sets the city apart as a trailblazer in emerging trends, and as a leading destination. In line with this, green products, wine accessories and museum gift resources will be given particular prominence at the Fair, January 26-29, 2008 at the Moscone Center.

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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.
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Tom Pfleider, president of Pfleider Pfoods, Inc., has proven to be a man of many talents.

A “taste bud moment” involving a friend’s sauce made from a smoke-dried jalapeno, known as chipotle, thrust him on an unconventional path from working with world leaders in the surgical industry to creating award-winning, gourmet chipotle products. Using his friend’s recipe as a starting point, Tom Pfleider established Pfleider Pfoods, Inc., in 2003. By 2004, he had created his first award-winning sauce, Sweet Heat Addiction, and The Art of Chipotle was born. All of Pfleider Pfood’s The Art of Chipotle products are produced, processed and packaged entirely in the USA, using only the finest ingredients. The wide range of The Art of Chipotle sauces will appeal to all ages, ethnicities, and heat tolerances, and is distinguished enough for the finest gourmet meal yet quick and easy enough for an impromptu barbeque. You can view The Art of Chipotle at Art of Chipotle BAOlink premium vendor listing.

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Over 43,000 national and international wholesale vendors, retail buyers and industry representatives will gather, next February 2008, to attend the Winter New York International Gift Fair®. Well-established as the only gift and home furnishings tradeshow that brings together key industry representatives in the most incredible city in the world, the fair will have two opening days – on Friday, February 1st and on Saturday, February 2nd – at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, several of the Passenger Ship Terminal Piers and the Metropolitan Pavilion. Encompassing 650,000 square feet, this spectacular exhibition will feature more than 2,700 companies displaying new and intriguing products in nine major merchandise sections.

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