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This Summer, AMERICASMART Exhibitors Presented Boldest, Best in Product Merchandising

August 31, 2006

ATLANTA, July 2006—Each January and July—during the Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market—more than 2,000 showrooms and 4,000 temporary booths are judged on their creative efforts, including use of space, product display and placement, signage, flooring and lighting.

The winners are selected by an independent panel of judges who bring passion and decades of visual display expertise to the Program. For July 2006, the Visual Display Awards winners are:

Permanent Exhibitors

AMERICASMART 1 (The Merchandise Mart)

• Whispering Pines Carving—Best of Show, Holiday, Floral & Home Décor Center/20th floor

• Designer’s Excellence by Direct Export—Best of Show, Holiday, Floral & Home Décor Center/19th floor

• Sullivan’s—Best of Show, Holiday, Floral & Home Décor Center/18th floor

• CAFFCO International—Best of Show, Holiday, Floral & Home Décor Center/17th floor

• Lincoln Imports—Best of Show, Holiday, Floral & Home Décor Center/16th floor

• Napa Home—Best of Show, The Gardens/15th floor

• Home Bazaar, Inc.—Best of Show, The Gardens/14th floor

• Art Image, Inc.—Best of Show, Home Accents & Furnishings Center/13th floor

• Southern Accessories Today—Best of Show, Home Accents & Furnishings Center/12th floor

• Artmax, Inc.—Best of Show, Home Accents & Furnishings Center/11th floor

• Pablo Mekis Artisan Pillows/Rani Arabella—Best of Show, Home Accents & Fine Linens Center/10th floor

• Saro Trading Co.—Best of Show, Home Accents & Fine Linens Center/9th floor

AMERICASMART 2 (The Gift Mart)

• Appleman/Schauben & Co—Best of Show, General Gift/18th floor

• Two’s Company—Best of Show, General Gift/17th floor

• Gift Box Corporation of America—Best of Show, General Gift/16th floor

• Fantastic Craft—Best of Show, General Gift/15th floor

• New Creative Enterprises—Best of Show, General Gift/14th floor

• II Sisters—Best of Show, Home Accents & Gift/13th floor

• Jubilee—Best of Show, Home Accents & Gift12th floor

• IMAX—Best of Show, Home Accents & Gift/11th floor

• Mary Lake Thompson—Best of Show, Home Accents & Gift/10th floor

• Tyler Candle Company—Best of Show, Tabletop, Fine Gifts & Accessories/9th floor

• Juliska—Best of Show, Tabletop, Fine Gifts & Accessories/8th floor

• Kennedy Country Collection—General Gift/Best of Show, 7th floor

• Burton & Burton—Best of Show, General Gift/6th floor

AMERICASMART 3 (The Apparel Mart)

• Fancy That Gift & Decor—Best of Show, Gift & Resort Center/14th floor

• David Patnaude & Associates—Best of Show, The Gourmet Gallery/14th floor

• Your Fairy Godmother’s—Best of Show, Children’s World

• Barse & Co.—Best of Show, Fashion Accessories & Fine Jewelry Center/8th floor

• Miss B—Best of Show, Immediate Resources/Apparel, Accessories & Jewelry Center/7th floor

• Mariloff International—Best of Show, Fashion Accessories & Fine Jewelry Center/6th floor

Temporary Exhibitors

• 18 Karat International—Best of Show

• Made in Umbria—Best in Category/Europe’s Finest

• Taxi Dog’s Bakery—Best in Category/Pampered Pets

• American Heritage Furniture—Best in Category/Distinctly American

• Parkhill Collection—Best in Category/Garden Products

• River’s Edge Products—Best in Category/High Country Lodge

• Christian Aubry—Best in Category, floor 7/Home Accents & Fine Linens

• Casa Chicob—Best in Category, floor 7/Home Accents & Home Furnishings

• Aidan Gray—Best in Category, floor 8/Home Accents & Home Furnishings

• DreamSacks—Best in Category/HIGH DESIGN

• Judy Havelka Enterprises, Ltd.—Best in Category/Holiday, Floral & Baskets

• The Savannah Bee Company—Best in Category/Gourmet

• Kitras Glass Art—Best in Category/Handcrafted Design

• Prosperity Tree International—Best in Category/Tabletop, Fine Gifts & Housewares

• Renditions by Reesa—Best in Category/Kid’s Kollection

• Whimsy Press—Best in Category/Write On!

• Melis Accessories—Best in Category/Jewelry & Fashion Accessories

• She Beads—Best in Category/Boutique

• Ms. & Mrs.—Best in Category/Body & Soul

• Akhassa—Best in Category/General Gift & Resort

For more information on AMERICASMART-ATLANTA and its annual markets, please call 1-800-ATL-MART or visit the AMERICASMART web site at 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 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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