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Children’s World Opens its Doors for Inaugural July Gift & Home Furnishings Market

August 31, 2006

ATLANTA, June 2006—AMERICASMART Children’s WORLDSM will make its summer Market debut, July 11—19, during the Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market®. Children’s World will now also open for each of AMERICASMART’s six annual gift and home furnishings markets.

Conveniently situated in AMERICASMART ?, Children’s World is comprised primarily of 70 permanent showrooms on floor 13. It also offers product from select showrooms in the Gift & Resort Center floor 14, as well as access to 140 exhibitors and 22,000 square feet of space in the Market Temporaries’ Kid’s Kollection & Plush on floor 3.

Children’s World marries children’s apparel and high-end juvenile products and offers unique resources to specialty retailers. Here, retailers will discover a broad selection of merchandise—spanning three floors and totaling more than 200,000 square feet—including furniture and bedding; home accents; artwork; gifts; toys and games; plush, jewelry and accessories; apparel and shoes; maternity clothing, diaper bags, etc.

More than one dozen new showrooms now call Children’s World home, including Brentwood Sales, Inc., Common Ground Distributors, Doodlefish, Green Frog Art, Mela Wilson Co., Miss Harriett & Co, My Vintage Baby, Summer Place Reps, YaYa’s Bambinos and Your Fairy Godmothers.

AMERICASMART unveiled Children’s World during the January 2006 Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market to an overwhelmingly positive response from exhibitors and retailers alike. Its January successes prompted AMERICASMART to incorporate it into all gift and home furnishings markets in addition to five women’s and children’s apparel markets and four men’s ALPHA markets.

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