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AmericasMart Opens the Retailing Year with Atlanta Market

Global retailing and design converge in a spectacular showing of new creations, introductions and innovations when The Atlanta International Gift and Home Furnishings Market® opens its 59th consecutive winter show under continuous Portman Family ownership and management on January 12, 2016 at AmericasMart® Atlanta.

Leading retailers, designers, specifiers and tastemakers from throughout the U.S. and around the world will make AmericasMart their market of choice to source a merchandise line-up featuring thousands of lines and countless introductions, many in exclusive U.S. debut. Top lines and designs will be presented in new and expanded showrooms and temporary booths by leading manufacturers, importers and sales representative organizations, all looking to harness the global power present at AmericasMart.

Enhancing the January home and gift product mix will be the unmatched resources present in The Atlanta International Area Rug Market® featuring the National Oriental Rug Show (Showrooms and Temporaries: Wednesday, January 13 – Saturday, January 18), staged and produced in exclusive collaboration with The Oriental Rug Importers Association (ORIA), which has just renewed its long-standing AmericasMart partnership.

“The AmericasMart merchandise mix is scaled by design to satisfy the fast-growing demands of global retailing,” says Jeffrey L. Portman, Sr., Vice Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer. “We’ve carefully aggregated the world’s top product resources in a collective of incredible variety and selection. Long before consumers go shopping, retailers buy what the world will buy here.”

The gift and home furnishings Market—running Tuesday, January 12 through Tuesday, January 19 (Temporaries: Thursday, January 14 – Monday, January 18)— will give buyers a long litany of industry-leading experiences topped by design-driven programming and events including the return and expansion of Design Campus and a designer vignette gallery inspired by Pantone’s Color of the Year in its first presentation of 2016. The show will also include a reimagined, buyer-centric design of the Market Temporaries which places the Gourmet Housewares, Tabletop & Entertaining and Tabletop LUXE collections directly above the complementary HIGH DESIGN and HIGH DESIGN LUXE collections in Building 2. Gourmet Foods and Gourmet LUXE also relocate in Building 2 to Floor 3 as part of the redesign.

Visitors will enjoy a resurgent downtown Atlanta anchored by JP Atlanta, a modern interpretation of the Midnight Sun, John C. Portman, Jr.’s restaurant experience that redefined mid-century Atlanta’s standard for fine dining. John Portman & Associates will once again design a signature restaurant space within the 230 Peachtree building which will also be home to a new 203-room Hotel Indigo® hotel adjacent to the AmericasMart campus. Buyers will also be offered exclusive access to neighboring attractions including Georgia Aquarium, the College Football Hall of Fame, The Center for Civil and Human Rights and SkyView Atlanta offered during Market.

Industry celebrations include the second annual Party on Peachtree on Thursday, January 14 and America’s Magnificent Carpets® Awards set for Friday, January 15.

AmericasMart’s world-renowned GIFT category continues its industry dominance as it refines and expands its celebrated General & Specialty Gift, Gourmet & Housewares, Tabletop & Gift, Children’s World, Home Accents & Gifts and The Gardens® collections featuring an ever-growing array of top products at all price points from across the world. The new permanent Made in America product destination, launched at the July Market, features a diverse collection of gift items that are all produced in the United States on Building 2, Floor 7.

AmericasMart continues to present a comprehensive HOME collection featuring top manufactures in its Home & Rug, Home Accents & Fine Linens, Home Furnishings, HOME & DESIGN and Holiday & Floral/ Home Décor categories.

For more information about the January Market, visit www.AmericasMart.com/January.