AmericasMart Celebrates 60th Consecutive Winter Show
When the Atlanta International Gift and Home Furnishings Market® opens for business at AmericasMart Atlanta® on January 10, 2017, the global retail and design community will mark and celebrate its staging as the 60th consecutive winter show under continuous Portman Family ownership and management and the latest and largest in a continuing legacy of industry-leading market events.
“The six decades linking January 1957 and January 2017 chronicle a business driven toward the future, compelled by innovation and unfailingly committed to the industry we love and lead,” notes Jeffrey L. Portman, Sr., Vice Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer of the AmericasMart marketplace envisioned and founded by his father, John C. Portman, Jr., who continues as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
“While the nature of the home, rug, gift and apparel industries has evolved with unimaginable speed over those 60 years, our mission sustains the course set by our founding compass: to create markets of necessity powering the growth of the tens of thousands of buyers and sellers choosing to do business here. That was, is and forever will be our passion,” adds Portman.
The January 10 through 17, 2017 Atlanta International Gift and Home Furnishings Market jump-starts global retailing as the first major buying opportunity of the year with new and expanded showrooms and temporaries brimming with product introductions, complemented by industry gatherings, thought-leading programming and celebrations befitting the legacy of the internationally celebrated marketplace.
The gift and home furnishings Market, running Tuesday, January 10 through Tuesday, January 17 (Temporaries: Thursday, January 12 – Monday, January 16), will give buyers a long litany of industry-leading experiences topped by Diamonds of Design, a new vignette gallery presented in partnership with “Southern Living,” “Coastal Living” and “Sunset” magazines. Celebrating AmericasMart’s diamond anniversary, the exhibition assembles the most brilliant designers from coast to coast in Atlanta to bring to life their favorite design moments, eras and lifestyles of the last 60 years.
In addition, the market features presentations from design, entertaining, lifestyle and culinary trendsetters and thought leaders including interactive events in the Fiesta Dinnerware Demonstration Kitchen.
AmericasMart’s gift category includes offerings in its General & Specialty Gift, Gourmet & Housewares, Tabletop & Gift, Children’s World, Home Accents & Gifts and The Gardens® permanent collections and corresponding temporary collections.
