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Double the Opportunity, Double the Success at AMERICASMART’s Fall 2006 Markets

August 31, 2006

ATLANTA, August 2006—For the nation’s most exciting gift, home furnishings and gourmet product collection—all together in showrooms and temporaries, all under one roof, all at one time—there is only one place to do business this fall: AMERICASMART-ATLANTA and the Atlanta Fall Gift & Home Furnishings Market® featuring The Atlanta Gourmet Market®.

The September 9—11 Markets open ready for business with more new products, new resources and new ideas, including burgeoning gift and gourmet collections and enhanced home accents and home decor, holiday and floral treasures, jewelry and fashion accessories, and more.

Buyers registering at AMERICASMART-ATLANTA this September will find in the convenience of a single location, exclusive resources and services designed to deliver a pleasurable and educational Market experience, energized and enriched by:

• The Market Temporaries: Conveniently located together in one central location—AMERICASMART ?, floor 7.

• Permanent Showrooms: In a single campus of three bridged buildings, more than 2,000 showrooms housed in 10 complete product centers.

• AMERICASMART’s Best of Atlanta Awards: An AMERICASMART-exclusive competition featuring superior gourmet products and celebrating achievement in product manufacturing and packaging. Saturday, September 9. Check the Atlanta Buyer’s Guide at Market for details.

• Market Events: For September Market excitement and innovation, its AMERICASMART-exclusive events. The September 2006 events lineup is:

  • Food Trends featuring Virginia Willis. Chef Virginia Willis, producer of Turner South’s smash hit cooking show, Home Plate, and former kitchen director for Martha Stewart Living Television, wows retailers with a cooking demonstration. AMERICASMART ?, The Gourmet Gallery, floor 14. Saturday, September 9. 4—5 p.m. Check the Atlanta Buyer’s Check the Atlanta Buyer’s Guide at Market for details.

  • AMERICASMART Gift Basket UniversitySM: The only hands-on workshop symposium dedicated to the gift and gourmet industry—offering the latest design techniques and business strategy classes. Check the Atlanta Buyer’s Guide at Market for details.

    • Step One…The Basics. (Saturday, September 9. 9:30—11:30 a.m.) AMERICASMART ?, floor 7. Led by Jimi Taylor, Taylor Made Gift Baskets. Hands-on workshop. Check the Atlanta Buyer’s Guide at Market for details.

    • Step Two…Intermediate Techniques. (Saturday, September 9. 1:30—3:30 p.m.) AMERICASMART ?, floor 7. Led by Cherie Reagor, The Basket Connection. Hands-on workshop. Check the Atlanta Buyer’s Guide at Market for details.

    • Step Three…Advanced Mechanics. (Sunday, September 10. 1:30—3:30 p.m.) AMERICASMART ?, floor 7. Led by Cherie Reagor, The Basket Connection, and Jimi Taylor, Taylor Made Gift Baskets. Hands-on workshop. Check the Atlanta Buyer’s Guide at Market for details.

• AMERICASMART University: Fresh, informative and impactful programming for retailers of every profile. AMERICASMART University (AMU) touches on virtually every aspect of retailing and topics most important to retailers’ business. The September 2006 lineup features:

  • Website Marketing. (Sunday, September 10. 11—12 noon. AMERICASMART ?, floor 7. Led by Drew Barton. Check the Atlanta Buyer’s Guide at Market for details.

  • Gift Basket Design: Learn How the Pros Do It. (Saturday, September 9. 12—2:30 p.m. AMERICASMART ?, floor 14, The Gourmet Gallery. Led by Lynn Rogers. Check the Atlanta Buyer’s Guide at Market for details.

  • Gift Basket Design: Learn How the Pros Do It. (Sunday, September 10. 12—2:30 p.m.). AMERICASMART ?, floor 14, The Gourmet Gallery. Led by Grace Johnson. Check the Atlanta Buyer’s Guide at Market for details.

  • Gift Basket Design: Learn How the Pros Do It. (Monday, September 11. 10—10:30 a.m.). AMERICASMART ?, floor 14, The Gourmet Gallery. Led by Cherie Reagor. Check the Atlanta Buyer’s Guide at Market for details.

For more information on AMERICASMART-ATLANTA and its annual markets, please call 1-800-ATL-MART or visit AmericasMart.com.

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AMERICASMART-ATLANTA is the largest wholesale marketplace of its kind in the world, and is a leading international market source for a wide variety of consumer goods. It hosts 24 wholesale markets and six Market Wednesdays that annually attract more than 548,000 attendees from every U.S. state and more 80 countries.

Retailers attending its markets identify AMERICASMART as the gift/home furnishings/area rug wholesale marketplace most important to their business—as compared to all competing U.S. wholesale markets—in independent research conducted by Moore & Symons, Inc.

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