Home Textiles Market Week successful at multiple sites, NY City
23 Aug '07
4 min read
The recent Home Textiles Market Week lured home textiles retailers, as well as gift and home buyers with interest in better home fashions to New York City, from August 9-16, for what was deemed a cohesive, convenient market.
In total, the Home Textiles Market Week offered buyers access to nearly 500 better home textiles suppliers at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger Ship Terminal Pier 94, 230 Fifth Avenue and 7 West 34 th Street.
Participants featured a wide range of mid-to-high-end bed and bath fashions, table linens, kitchen textiles, towels, decorative accessories, area rugs, window treatments and decorative fabrics.
“The Market was 100% successful for buyers and exhibitors alike,” said Penny Sikalis, George Little Management, LLC (GLM) vice president.
“This was an efficient, well-received market that provided a depth of better home textiles resources, as well as a breadth of related home merchandise for cross-category buying and selling opportunities.”
NYIGF exhibitors and permanent showroom tenants concurred, citing a high quality of buyer traffic across all market locations, strong order writing from all channels of retail distribution. Retailers also responded positively to the efficiencies created by the concentration of better linen resources.
“The show was off the charts for us, both in terms of positive response and amount of traffic. It was beyond our expectations, said Matteo's Tanny Esperas. “After being away from the market for four years, the majority of our orders were from new customers, but our existing customers also came back to see us. We wrote orders with major department stores, independent retail boutiques, interior designers and e-commerce and web retailers.”
This sentiment was echoed by representatives from two Italian suppliers – Dea and Missoni Home. “This was our best show ever because of the market's concentration of high-end linen resources, said Fiona Simon, of Dea. “Our clients were better able to focus, and they sought us out here in our location in the Italian Pavilion.”
Missoni Home's Elena Carboni added, “We saw a good mix of current and new clients, so we wrote orders from traditional home textiles outlets as well as corporate gift companies and accessory stores. There was also a good geographic mix, with visitors from Florida, California, New York, Carolinas and the Midwest.”
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