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Casual, Outdoor Living Sneak Peek Coming
The casual and outdoor living category at AmericasMart Atlanta, welcomes 16 showroom updates in time for the Jan. 16-22, Atlanta Market. These new and expanding showrooms provide a sneak peek into all casual offerings featured at the Summer 2024 Casual Market Atlanta, running July 15-18, 2024, at AmericasMart Atlanta.
“Six months after a successful launch of Casual Market Atlanta, AmericasMart Atlanta is proud to expand casual offerings at the turn of the new year,” said Dorothy Belshaw, ANDMORE executive vice president, chief growth officer. “These category updates give Atlanta Market and AmericasMart’s Open Year-Round buyers a first look at the new and next of outdoor in 2024.”
New Showrooms Bring Fresh Product
With new and expanding showrooms, AmericasMart Atlanta offers nearly 400,000 square feet of casual furniture and outdoor accessory resources across five floors in Building 1. In January 2024, 15 showrooms are new, and one expands in the outdoor furnishings category, bringing the total number of casual/outdoor showrooms to more than 65.
New showrooms are America’s Backyards & Outdoor Living (backyard patio furnishings); Armen Living Furniture (outdoor seating); Breezesta (recycled poly outdoor furniture); CABANACOAST (luxury residential and commercial patio furniture); COUTURE Jardin (elevated outdoor furnishings); Ideal Living (patio accessories and seating); International Home Miami (modern wooden patio furnishings); Pacific Casual (outdoor living products); Prestige Casual (outdoor seating); Skyline Design (premium outdoor furniture); Sunset West (contemporary patio furnishings); Suns Outdoors (garden furniture and lifestyle); Tempo Patio (shade solutions); TULP Outdoor Furniture (European-style outdoor furniture); and Vanguard Furniture Co. (traditional patio entertainment and furnishings). Mode Patio Living (sustainable high-end outdoor furniture) expands and relocates to a new showroom.
In addition to these new and expanding showrooms, industry leaders return to the casual showcase in January. Some notable names include: Agio (high-end outdoor furniture); Alfresco Home (casual furniture, garden planters and patio accents); Bambrella USA (aluminum and bamboo market and patio umbrellas); Jensen Outdoor (sustainable wood outdoor furniture); Plank & Hide Co. (outdoor lifestyle and indoor entertainment furniture); POLYWOOD (outdoor furniture made from recycled plastic materials); Summer Classics (modern outdoor furniture); Telescope Casual Furniture (wicker, aluminum and resin outdoor furniture); and TUUCI (shade products). A full list of AmericasMart Atlanta exhibitors is available at AmericasMart.com/exhibitor/exhibitor-directory.
The presentation of these 65+ casual furniture and outdoor accessories showrooms create cross-market business opportunities for Atlanta Market buyers to source the latest in outdoor furnishings, accessories, fabrics and more from industry leaders and innovative newcomers. Casual Market Atlanta buyers have easy access to Atlanta Market’s 6,000 complementary furnishings, gift, lifestyle, seasonal, housewares and gourmet lines; and casual and outdoor brands can connect with tens of thousands of retailers and designers from across the United States and around the world visiting the Jan. 16-22 and July 16-22 buying events.
In addition, AmericasMart Atlanta’s Open Year Round collection showcases 350 home and décor showrooms with lighting, accent furniture, casual furnishings, rugs, wall décor, linens, textiles and more.
Atlanta Market is a dynamic and immersive wholesale sourcing destination housing the nation’s largest product mix for gift complemented by a broad selection of home décor, furnishings, apparel and the nation’s largest outdoor living presentation. Each January and July at AmericasMart Atlanta, it features three buildings with 51 floors of showrooms and temporary exhibits with thousands of brands that attract retailers and designers from every U.S. state and more than 50 countries. For information, visit AtlantaMarket.com.
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China International Furniture Fair Returns in March
One of world’s largest and most influential trade fairs dedicated to home furniture, home decor and home textiles, outdoor furniture, office furniture, commercial furniture, furniture machinery and raw materials – China International Furniture Fair Guangzhou 2024 – is set to take place in two phases on March 18-21 and March 28-31, in Guangzhou, China.
Once again bringing a unique mix of worldwide brands, designers and retailers together, the 53rd edition of the fair will be an upgrade that spans 830,000 square meters and expects to host over 4000 exhibitors and welcome 380,000 visitors, displaying innovative works that inspire new trends and reshape the future of the industry.
The first phase of the fair, which runs from March 18-21, will prominently feature the Home Furniture sector. This exhibition is specifically curated to showcase the latest and most high-end designs in suite furniture, whole-house customization, upholstery furniture, soft furnishings, home decor, textiles and outdoor living. Attendees will have the opportunity to explore boundary-pushing innovations, expand their business networks, and avail themselves of one-stop services for product procurement.
The CIFF Guangzhou has always prioritized design, as reflected in its overarching theme “Design Trend, Global Trade and Full Supply Chain.” The CIFF Guangzhou 2024 will continue to emphasize the importance of design, with the CIFF Contemporary Design Fair served as a platform for visitors to explore the intersection of creativity and sustainability.
Amid a resurging passion for outdoor activities in the post-pandemic world, the Outdoor Furniture, Sunshade and Leisure sector, which is Asia’s largest exhibition space dedicated to the category, will be on full display on the first floor of Area B, Canton Fair Complex.
While the Dining & Living Space, a destination for global visitors seeking premium, top-tier design that leads the industry, is gearing up to stage an unprecedented showcase in Area C and Area E (PWTC Expo). Covering 150,000 square meters, the fair will bring trendsetting and high-quality products catered to the demands of international buyers.
The Home Decor & Home Textile sector, recognized as Asia’s premier exhibition for interior decoration products and furnishing fabrics, will be moving to a new location. With an expansive 85,000 square meters of exhibition space, it will be housed in the eight newly constructed pavilions in Area D of Canton Fair Complex.
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Overstock Changing Corporate Name to Beyond Inc.
Overstock.com, Inc, which operates as Bed Bath & Beyond, will change its corporate name to Beyond, Inc. effective Nov. 6. With the corporate name change, the company will transfer its stock listing from the Nasdaq Global Market to the New York Stock Exchange and change its ticker symbol from OSTK to BYON.
Following the corporate name change, Beyond, Inc. will continue to operate its furniture and home furnishings ecommerce business under the Bed Bath & Beyond brand.
On June 28, Overstock.com, Inc. acquired the Bed Bath & Beyond brand and associated intellectual property. Overstock was rebranded as Bed Bath & Beyond, launching bedbathandbeyond.ca (formerly overstock.ca) in Canada on June 29, followed by bedbathandbeyond.com (formerly overstock.com) and the brand’s new mobile app in the United States on Aug. 1. Bed Bath & Beyond sells a broad array of high quality, on-trend home products at competitive prices, including furniture, bedding and bath, patio and outdoor, area rugs, tabletop and cookware, décor, storage and organization, small appliances, home improvement and more.
“Changing our corporate name to Beyond, Inc. sets us up well for a brighter future,” said Jonathan Johnson, chief executive officer. “As we continue the process of transforming our consumer brand, our new corporate name will help us reach millions of new customers with our advantageous and differentiated, asset-light ecommerce business model. The name ‘Beyond’ emphasizes our commitment to connect new and legacy customers with a wide assortment of products and services.
“Since our founding in 1999, the company has focused on bringing technical expertise to ecommerce and providing a simple and easy experience for consumers and supplier partners. We expect the corporate name change to enhance the awareness of our iconic consumer brand, Bed Bath & Beyond.”
Overstock.com, Inc. will continue to trade on the NASDAQ with ticker symbol OSTK until the close of market on Friday, Nov. 3. Beyond, Inc. will begin trading on the NYSE with ticker symbol BYON when markets open on Monday, Nov. 6. On that day, to celebrate the transfer, representatives of Beyond, Inc. will ring the NYSE Opening Bell at 9:30 a.m. ET.
“We are grateful to NASDAQ for their partnership and support over the years,” Johnson said. “We are thankful to the NYSE for welcoming us to its prestigious platform. We are excited to join many of the world’s biggest consumer brands, as we begin a new chapter in our corporate transformation.”
“We are thrilled to welcome Beyond, Inc. to the New York Stock Exchange,” said Lynn Martin, NYSE President. “Under its new name, Beyond, Inc. joins a world-class community of peers in the retail space at its new listing home, where it can leverage the visibility, unmatched trading platform and other advantages only found at the NYSE.”
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Heimtextil Hires Herberth in Leadership Role
Heimtextil has hired Margit Herberth, who will be responsible for the home textiles segment, as director beginning Sept. 1. Together with Bettina Bär, Herberth will form the new dual leadership of the leading trade fair for home and contract textiles. Herberth, previously director marketing consumer goods/multimedia & data at Messe Frankfurt, succeeds Meike Kern, who is leaving the company of her own volition after 22 years to take on a new professional challenge.
Bär has been responsible for the home textiles segment since September.
“We are delighted to have won Margit Herberth, a proven sales strategist with a strong global sales as well as marketing background, as Director Heimtextil,” said Olaf Schmidt, vice president textiles & textile Technologies.
Herbeth has more than 10 years of sales experience as senior sales manager for Messe Frankfurt’s international consumer goods fairs Beautyworld, Hair & Beauty and Christmasworld. Since 2018, as director marketing communications, she has managed all marketing activities for the Paperworld, Christmasworld and Creativeworld brands and was responsible for the design of global brand campaigns in the consumer goods sector, for example, for Beautyworld.
Most recently, as head of multimedia & data, she decisively drove strategic performance marketing, including the implementation of targeted smart data campaigns, as well as the further development of audio and video formats for consumer goods trade shows including Ambiente.
Herberth will be responsible for the household textiles segment and thus for the world’s largest brand and private label exhibitor range of bedding, bed linen, bathroom textiles, table and kitchen linen, mattresses, sleep systems, home accessories, blankets, pillows and textile processing machinery. Another important component is the further expansion of the textile sustainability content strategy as well as an even stronger internationalization of the Heimtextil Conference Sleep & More.
Herberth replaces Kern, who is leaving the company for a new professional challenge.
“In addition to the significant expansion of national as well as global sales structures, Meike Kern has also played a trend-setting role in the further development of Heimtextil into a content platform and global condensate of environmentally friendly textile innovations, not least in 2011 with the initiation of the first green formats. We wish her all the best for her new professional station,” Schmidt said.
In her 15 years as director, Kern built strategic partnerships with customers on a global level, expanded sales channels and increased the market presence of exhibitors from core markets. In 2019, she also played a leading role in shaping the restructuring of Heimtextil and achieved an even clearer and more efficient visitor orientation at the trade fair with the targeted bundling and placement of the product range.
In addition to several sustainable formats, she also established the Heimtextil Conference Sleep & More as a knowledge platform for the bedding trade as well as the industry and helped young start-ups to gain worldwide visibility at Heimtextil as part of New & Next.Heimtextil.
International trade fair for home and contract textiles Heimtextil will take place Jan. 9-12 Jan.
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Home Décor, Furnishings Updates at Atlanta Market
Home décor and furnishings are front and center at Atlanta Market this summer, with nine updates including a dynamic new Building 1 Lobby presentation of industry-leading home furnishings showrooms, plus seven other home décor showroom additions and expansions, July 11-17 at AmericasMart Atlanta.
“Home resource expansion brings increased opportunity for retailers and designers at the Summer 2023 Atlanta Market,” said Dorothy Belshaw, IMC chief growth officer.” The depth and breadth of home brands and products is unmatched this summer at AmericasMart, with a dynamic new collection of industry-leading brands at ground-level of AmericasMart, the addition of new casual furnishings and outdoor furniture resources and some nine new and expanded brand presentations.”
Highlighting the Summer Market is the completion of IMC’s Atlanta Next transformation, with three industry-leading home resources now serving as the gateway to the Building 1 Home Collection. A new Hooker Furnishings (consumer and contract furniture brands) showroom debuts on the ground-level, alongside the newly relocated showroom of Loloi (area rugs and textiles) and the existing showroom of Currey & Company (lighting, accent furniture and accessories). This major reimagining of the arrival experience for AmericasMart visitors was a significant element of the multi-year transformation project that also included a new registration area on Floor 2. All three of these Lobby-level showrooms will be open for Atlanta Market as well as weekdays as part of AmericasMart’s Open Year Round offerings.
“Our permanent, year-round space within the prestigious AmericasMart allows us to showcase a variety of Hooker Furnishings portfolio brands, to connect with new and existing retailers, and to contribute to our growth within the essential interior design channel,” said Johne Albanese, Hooker Furnishings chief marketing officer. “Additionally, the company’s outdoor brand, Sunset West, will have its own temporary space on Floor 12 in Building 1 for Casual Market Atlanta.”
Overall, the Summer 2023 Market features a total of 25,000 square feet of showroom updates in the home décor category. In addition to the two Building 1 Lobby changes, updates include three new showroom debuts: Artifacts Trading Company (hand-woven home décor and accessories), Home Treasures (luxury Italian bedding, bath and table linens) and The Ivy Guild (custom silk floral, floor plants, trees and home accents). Four expanding showrooms are Cloud Nine Design (home accessories), D.V. KAP Home (accent pillows), Frank Thomas Gallery (wall art) and LR Home (home décor).
As an added benefit for Atlanta Market participants, co-location with the inaugural Casual Market Atlanta brings 150+ casual furnishings and outdoor furniture resources to AmericasMart Atlanta this summer. To help Atlanta Market retailers and designers navigate the new cross-category offerings, a Buyer Tour: Casual/Outdoor Furnishings will be held on Monday, July 10, at 10 a.m., and Tuesday, July 11, at 10 a.m. Casual Market Atlanta runs July 10-13, in Building 1, with permanent showrooms on Floors 2-5 and temporary exhibits on Floors 6 and 7.
Atlanta Market presents more than 350 home décor showrooms with lighting, accent furniture, casual furnishings, rugs, wall décor, linens, textiles and more on 13 floors in Building 1. Complementing the permanent showrooms are 200+ home décor temporary exhibitors on three floors in the ANTIQUES, HIGH DESIGN and HIGH DESIGN LUXE categories and Home Accents & Home Furnishings and Fine Linens & Home Textiles collections. A Buyer Q&A: All Things Home, offering a brief overview of the home resources at AmericasMart Atlanta, takes place on Wednesday, July 12, at 10 a.m. A full list of exhibitors is available at AtlantaMarket.com.
Atlanta Market is a dynamic and immersive wholesale sourcing destination housing the nation’s largest product mix for gift complemented by a broad selection of home décor, furnishings, apparel and the nation’s largest outdoor living presentation. It features three buildings with 51 floors of showrooms and temporary exhibits with thousands of brands that attract retailers and designers from every U.S. state and more than 60 countries. For information, visit AtlantaMarket.com.
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