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Growth, Best of the Best Define Market Temporaries at AmericasMart

January 20, 2006

ATLANTA, December 2005—For retailers from around the world, it’s a market-within-The Market this January 2006 when more than 4,000 Temporaries, in 400,000 square feet of space, open for business—all under one roof, all at one time and all conveniently situated and designed for maximum ease and efficiency.

The 31 category-strong Temporaries—a centerpiece of the bi-annual Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market®—continues as the preferred destination for retailers seeking new resources and new styles—550+ new exhibiting companies for January 2006 alone as of December.

Leading the January Market Temporaries charge are new and newly expanded product categories, customer amenities and conveniences, including:

• Boutique, a 4th floor treasure. A juried collection featuring hip, cutting-edge and distinctive designs from some of the country’s hottest established and emerging designers…from designer pet carriers, to jewelry, to furniture and home décor. Refined and redesigned for 2006 to address retailer and demand. Features a Buyer’s Lounge;

• The Gift & Home Furnishings Market debut of Children’s World, dedicated solely to permanent showrooms and temporaries and offering unlimited resources of children’s apparel and juvenile products, including furniture, home décor, accessories and gifts.

• A newly redesigned and expanded Europe’s Finest, including a new German Pavilion and expansions among Chinese, Indian and South African exhibitors;

• The expansion and refinement of the Body & Soul, Holiday, Floral & Baskets and Gardens categories; and

• HIGH DESIGN, celebrating more than 100 percent occupancy for January and featuring a distinctive Boutique product vignette.

Additional Temporaries features for January include: wireless Internet access on floors 4 and 5, a permanent food service station and Buyer’s Lounge on floor 5; more directional signage and Ask Me Staff assistance; and a new Café on the 1st floor of AMERICASMART ? featuring smoothies, coffee, and snacks.

Market Temporaries product categories across the 6.2 million square foot AMERICASMART campus—AMERICASMART ? ? & ?—spotlight:

• In AMERICASMART ?: 1st Floor: Europe’s Finest; 2nd Floor: Distinctly American, Garden Products, High Country Lodge, Pampered Pets; 7th Floor: Home Accents & Fine Linens, Home Furnishings; 8th Floor: Home Accents, Home Furnishings; and 10th Floor: HIGH DESIGN;

• In AMERICASMART ?: 3rd Floor Exhibit Hall: debut of the New! Collegiate Licensee Pavilion;

• In AMERICASMART ?: 1st Floor: Gourmet & Housewares; Holiday; Floral & Baskets; 2nd Floor: Handcrafted Design; Tabletop & Fine Gifts; 3rd Floor: Kid’s Kollection & Plush, Cash & Carry Jewelry; 4th Floor: Body & Soul, Jewelry & Fashion Accessories, Boutique, Write On! and Down to Business; 5th Floor: General Gifts featuring Resort, Collectible Dolls & Bears, and Inspirational & Spiritual Gifts; and 13th floor: Children’s WORLDSM, featuring temporaries and permanent showrooms.

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