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1 Great Industry!

Our singular, sensational industry is the sum of its many parts.

Caroline Kennedy -- Gifts and Dec, 11/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Do we really know the stuff of which this industry is made? Gifts & Decorative Accessories put together the following "guess-timated" fun figures with help from some of our industry partners.

The gifts and decorative accessories industry is made up of more than:

100,000 gifts and decorative accessories buyers

50,000 gifts and decorative accessories retail stores

5,000 manufacturers/importers/distributors

50,000 product lines

600 sales representative organizations

5,000 sales representatives

500 North American trade shows annually

50 trade show producers

28 permanent showroom facilities in the U.S.

20 million sq. ft. of showroom and exhibit space nationwide.

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