AmericasMart Atlanta

Press Release

AMERICASMART Hosts 2nd Annual Designers’ Summer Luncheon

August 31, 2006

Atlanta, May 2006—The second annual Designers’ Summer Luncheon—again hosted by Color Marketing Group and sponsored by AMERICASMART-ATLANTA—will bring together tomorrow’s trends and what’s hot today in southeastern decor, design and fashion.

Internationally renowned speaker and trend forecaster Maxine Lauer of Sphere Marketing, Bob Brown of Robert Brown Interior Design and Jada Loveless, The Atlantan magazine’s Fashion Editor, will combine their expertise to discuss how color impacts their market segment. Additionally, designers and retailers will learn how to maximize profits by selecting and forecasting up-and-coming and new “best-selling” colors.

Clinton Ross Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles magazine will moderate a panel discussion following the conclusion of the presentation.

A complimentary luncheon will be served and media access is free of charge.

For more information, please contact Tasha Robinson at 404.220.2435 or trobinson@americasmart.com or Marla Walls at 703.647.4723. For press credentials, please contact Keri Arroll at 404.220.2106 or karroll@americasmart.com.

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 23 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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