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K ITCHENWARE NEWS H o u s e w,a r e s R e v i e w S E RV I N G K I T C H E N WA R E
VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1
H O U S E WA R E S A N D TA B L E T O P M A R K E T S
JANUARY 2010
2010 Trade Show Season Kicks Off The 2010 season of trade shows for kitchenware and housewares kicks off in January with the New York International Gift Fair (NYIGF®), the Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market® and the Dallas Total Home & Gift Market®. Management teams from all three shows declare they are ready with new exhibitors and new tools. They are also serving up some genuine optimism about the coming year. “We are tracking to be larger (100+ booths) than we were in August thanks to an influx of some 350 new participants and a return to market by companies that were waiting for market conditions to improve,” said Dorothy Belshaw, NYIGF director and GLM senior vice president. NYIGF takes place Jan. 30-Feb. 4 at the Javits Center in New York City. Lucky for the kitchenware buyer, Belshaw said that tabletop and home furnishings are the biggest growth categories. On the attendee side of the equation, Belshaw commented, “We have also had strong registration interest from returning and new attendees particularly from out of region (Western States, South America and Europe) who are looking to the New York market as their principal resource for innovative, design-led, and fashion-forward product.”
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The Digital Kitchen by Kelly Lewis In today’s high-tech world where every room in the house is becoming more and more digital, it only makes sense that the kitchen should follow suit. And while touch-screen tools will help make your customers the envy of their friends, going digital these days is about much more than appearance. It’s also about food safety. In the United States, an estimated 1.4 million cases of non-typhoidal (NT) Salmonella cases are reported annually, resulting in more than 16,000 hospitalizations and 580 deaths, according to the Center For Disease Control’s FoodNet. From cutting-edge gadgets that cut down cooking and cooling time, to large-scale appliances that take the guess-work out of baking, these new products are helping to make food safer, easier and a whole lot tastier.
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