NYIGF to feature hundreds of global companies

HTT Staff -- Home Textiles Today, 7/6/2012 12:27:25 PM

White Plains, NY - More than 425 companies representing 48 countries will present a broad offering products at the summer edition of the New York International Gift Fair.

Scheduled for Aug. 18-22 at New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger Ship Terminal Piers, the NYIGF is grouping a majority of these international participants together in government-sponsored pavilions, located in four of the event's 10 divisions.

Among the myriad countries represented are: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

"The fair has a depth of design-driven and handmade resources from overseas, and an unparalleled number of individual international exhibitors as well as organized pavilions," Christian Falkenberg, NYIGF director and GLM vp.