Gift, Housewares, and Home Textile Buyers Guide 2009-10
Gift, Housewares & Home Textiles Buyers — 2009-10 Edition, by Briefings Media Group LLC (The Salesman's Guide)
The Gift, Housewares & Home Textiles Buyers 2009-10 Edition is a directory of the retailers who buy giftware, housewares and home textiles, published by Briefings Media Group as part of The Salesman's Guide line of directories. Listings in this edition profile over 6,000 retail companies throughout the U.S. and Canada, with contact information for more than 12,000 gift, housewares and home textiles buyers and executives. For a manufacturer or sales representative selling gifts, tableware, cookware, linens or home furnishings, the guide answers the practical question of who buys those lines, at which companies, and how to reach them — organized by retailer category, by merchandise line and by three indexes, in print and on CD-ROM.
Edition Details
Gift, Housewares & Home Textiles Buyers, 2009-10 Edition. ISBN (print edition): 978-0-87228-531-6. Available: 26 September, 2008. ISBN (CD-ROM edition): 978-0-87228-532-3. ISSN: 1532-7140.
Retailer Categories Covered
Listings in this edition profile over 6,000 retail companies throughout the U.S. and Canada, including the following retailer categories: Gift Shops; Arts and Crafts Shops; Department Stores; Discount Stores; Bath Boutiques; Airport Gift Shops; Online Retailers; Military Post Exchanges; Women's Specialty Stores and Boutiques; Consumer Electronics Stores; Family Clothing Stores; Gourmet Coffee & Tea Shops; Stationary Stores; Amusement Park Gift Shops; Drug Store Chains; Florists; Furniture Stores; Office Supply Stores; Gourmet Cookware Stores; Home Centers and Hardware Stores; Jewelry Stores; Hotel Gift Shops; Hospital Gift Shops; Lawn and Garden Stores and Nurseries; Convenience Stores; and Mail Order and Catalog Companies.
That spread matters because giftware, housewares and home textiles are bought by far more than gift shops. The same dinnerware line may be bought by a department store, a gourmet cookware store and a mail order catalog; the same bed linens may be bought by a family clothing store, a furniture store and an online retailer. A directory organized across all of these categories lets a seller follow a merchandise line into every kind of store that carries it, including channels that are easy to overlook, such as airport gift shops, hotel and hospital gift shops, amusement park gift shops and military post exchanges.
Listing Data and Indexes
The guide gives contact information for more than 12,000 gift, housewares and home textiles buyers and executives. Listings include the following data elements: contact names & titles (including owner(s), executives, G.M.M.s, D.M.M.s, buyers), merchandise bought, street & P.O. Box addresses, phone & fax numbers, Web site addresses, corporate e-mail addresses, merchandise price points, sales volume, type of store, and number of stores. The edition is indexed 3 ways: Online Retailers, Mail Order and Catalog Houses, and Alphabetical.
Taken together, those fields support a targeted sales pitch or other marketing effort: the merchandise bought and the price points show whether a line fits a store; the sales volume, type of store and number of stores show the size of the opportunity; and the named contacts — from the owner and executives down to the buyer — show who decides. Because listings reach the buyers and executives across a company, the user can approach the right person for a particular line rather than a single general contact.
Merchandise Lines
Buyers listed represent the following merchandise lines. Giftware, including gifts, china, crystal, decorative accessories, glassware, silverware, trim-a-tree, holiday and seasonal merchandise, pictures, frames, wall decor, and barware. Furniture, including home, office, outdoor and children's furniture. Housewares, including basic housewares, cookware, gourmet cookware, bakeware, dinnerware, tableware, personal care appliances, small electronics, cutlery, flatware, clocks, closet shop, and home storage. Home Textiles, including linens and domestics, bed coverings, kitchen textiles, bath textiles, window treatments, carpets, and area rugs. Store Displays, Fixtures and Supplies, including mannequins, lighting, shelving, hangers, visual merchandising and security systems.
CD-ROM Edition
The CD-ROM edition contains a fully searchable data file version viewable in the following formats: Access (.mdb file), ACT 4.0 (.dbf file), Comma Separated Values (.csv file), Excel (.xls file), DBaseIII (.dbf file) and Text (.txt file). A searchable file turns the directory into a working list: a seller can pull the buyers for one merchandise line or one retailer category and use the result for call campaigns, mailing labels and direct mail.
Publisher Contact
Briefings Media Group, LLC, 2807 N. Parham Road, Suite 200, Richmond, VA 23294. Phone: 800-965-2537. Fax: 804-217-8997. Contact: Terry Crockett, e-mail: TCrockett@BriefingsMediaGroup.com. Web: www.BriefingsMediaGroup.com.
References & Further Reading
- Gift, Housewares, and Home Textile Buyers Fact Sheet — Fact sheet (PDF) for the Gift, Housewares & Home Textiles Buyers guide.
- Briefings Media Group — The publisher hub page for all four Briefings Media Group buyers guides and their fact sheets.
Common Questions
How many companies and buyers does the Gift, Housewares & Home Textiles Buyers guide cover?
Listings in the 2009-10 Edition profile over 6,000 retail companies throughout the U.S. and Canada, with contact information for more than 12,000 gift, housewares and home textiles buyers and executives.
How is the guide indexed?
The edition is indexed 3 ways: Online Retailers, Mail Order and Catalog Houses, and Alphabetical.
What formats does the CD-ROM edition use?
The CD-ROM edition contains a fully searchable data file version viewable in Access (.mdb), ACT 4.0 (.dbf), Comma Separated Values (.csv), Excel (.xls), DBaseIII (.dbf) and Text (.txt) formats.