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Sneak Preview of the Dallas Apparel & Accessories Market

By kierstin carreira

The Dallas Market is coming up fast and furious with a complete wholesale market featuring permanent showrooms as well as product lines from every category. With new products and brands at every turn, we’re getting ready for an exciting show! This is just a sampling to whet your appetite of what is to come during the show — for the full plate, you’ll have to be there! The show runs October 22nd-25th, 2009. For more information, visit http://dallasmarketcenter.com

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Show Reports

Upbeat Mood Prevails at Children's Club for the Spring/Summer 2010 Season

By david gaunt
Children's Club - New York, New York (10/4/09 - 10/6/09)

New York, NY (October 7, 2009) – The Children’s Club wrapped its three-day run at the Javits Center in New York City, from October 4-6, 2009. The exhibit was an amazing expression of the upcoming Spring/Summer 2010 season and provides an outstanding medium for vendors and retailers alike to meet.

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Features

Preview the Atlanta Women's & Children's Apparel & Accessories Market

By Jennifer Hill

This year at the Atlanta Women’s & Children’s Apparel & Accessories Market, retailers can look forward to great new products and new showrooms in the Children’s World section. Companies searching for some high quality children’s products should really attend the show to view everything that is available. Here is a review of the three of the latest additions: The Carolina Baby Company, Moo Boo’s and Bebop Baby Shop.

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Show Reports

Children's Club Photo Review for Spring 2010 Collections

By The Giggle Guide
Children's Club - New York, New York (10/4/09 - 10/6/09)

The new 2010 Spring/Summer collections are out, and here at the The Giggle Guide® we’ve fallen head over heels for many of the new products introduced at the latest ENK International Children’s Club! The show floor overflowed with delightful contributions from innovative companies like 3 Sprouts, Moo Boo, and cachcach to name just a few. We’d like to share our enthusiasm by offering the following photos, straight from New York, for your viewing pleasure.

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Features

October's ENK – Preview of Spring 2010 Fashions

By Anna Levina Uy

The newest trends in children’s apparel, accessories and other products for Spring 2010 are showcased at the ENK Children’s Club at the Javits Center, NYC, October 2-4, 2009. Here’s a peek at what’s new from these first-time ENK exhibitors: Mini Rotation, So Nikki, Inc., Kimberly House, Fernella’s Jools and 4 Funky Flavours.

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Show Reports

A Few of Our Favorite Finds From the Fall 2009 ABC Kids Expo

By Sara Clement
ABC Kids Expo - Las Vegas, Nevada (9/13/09 - 9/16/09)

With miles of aisles, filled with juvenile products, the ABC Expo was a buyer’s (and editor’s) challenge. Does anyone really see more than 1,000 products at ABC? Leesa Valentino and David Gaunt from The Giggle Guide® were on the prowl throughout the show. Here are just a few of the products that we discovered from Baby Elephant Ears, Oxo, Teamees, Baby Magoo, Baby Sherpa, Abiie, BabbaCo and Lipper International

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Show Reports

ABC Show Update: Miles to Go Before We Sleep!

By The Giggle Guide
ABC Kids Expo - Las Vegas, Nevada (9/13/09 - 9/16/09)

The Giggle Guide’s Leesa Valentino and David Gaunt have been walkin’ and talkin’ throughout the ABC Kids Expo in Las Vegas. With over one million square feet of exhibit space, our four feet are barkin’. We saw miles of product during the four day event and are pleased to report that buyers are spending money and exhibitors seem upbeat. Lots of positive energy!

Special thanks to The World Market Center, Vegas Kids, for inviting us to be guest speakers for their seminar series. Our presentation “Web Sites: Optimize to Maximize” on September 15th, was a big success.

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World Market Center Las Vegas Announces Plans for ‘Vegas Kids’ in June 2010

By The Giggle Guide

World Market Center Las Vegas announced plans to launch another ancillary market – “Vegas Kids” during June 13-16, 2010. This new event will run concurrent with the 2010 “Gift + Home” Market.

According to Philip McKay, World Market Center Las Vegas’ Senior Vice President, this new show will pull together exhibitors and buyers across a broad spectrum of interrelated industries, namely nursery and youth furniture, juvenile products, toy and game, children’s books, children’s apparel, and gift.

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Show Reports

Just a Few of the KidShow Stoppers!

By david gaunt
KidShow - Las Vegas, Nevada (8/31/09 - 9/2/09)

Kudos to KidShow for hosting another great trade event at Bally’s, Las Vegas. Denise Raeside, and her entire team, work hard to create a welcoming, relaxed and friendly shopping environment for manufacturers, designers and retailers to meet, greet and get down to business for Spring 2010. KidShow’s traditional perks include a free breakfast, lunch and snacks every day. It’s especially nice that the dining tables are round and large so vendors and retailers can visit and get to know each other in a relaxed, comfortable setting.

Here are a few exhibitors that really captured our attention at the event: Starting Green,Lexi Kate Designs, Princess Teeza, Jen’s Ideas, and Cacamamie.

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