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November 30th, 2008

Toy and Game Inventors Awards Honors Creative Minds

(LINCOLNWOOD, Ill.) -- The Chicago Toy and Game Group recognized outstanding toy and game inventors at the first Toy and Game Inventors Event (TAGIE) award ceremony Friday November 21st. Read more...

November 19th, 2008

Take–a-long Taggies wins BabyZone Award

(Spencer, Mass.) – Taggies, Inc., the award-winning line of children’s products featuring multi-textured, looped satin tags, announced today that its Take-A-Long Taggies travel toy was awarded a BabyZone 2008 Amazing Toy Award. Products that receive this distinction from BabyZone are selected based on their durability, play value, and ability to encourage physically and mentally active participation. Read more...

November 17th, 2008

One Spectacular Night, One Place: America’s magnificent carpets awards

(ATLANTA) — In the one market where the Area Rug business does business, in one spectacular evening, the industry’s top importers and manufacturers celebrate the triumph of design achievement in the most anticipated event of the year: The America's Magnificent Carpets Awards-exclusively sponsored by Architectural Digest. Read more...

November 13th, 2008

Jishaku jumps at judges of the Parents’ Choice Foundation

(Tampa, FL) – Face it, toy award judges know a lot about children’s products. They assemble a plethora of puzzles, cuddle a coterie of plush and play a glut of games. So when these folks point at a new game and say that it’s not only fun but that the pieces "jumped off the board" at them... literally, then the rest of us had better go get that game. And that is why the judges at the Parent’s Choice Foundation, who recognized 24 games altogether, have awarded RSV Production’s Jishaku game a Fall 2008 Parents’ Choice Recommended Seal. Read more...

November 11th, 2008

Nana Star and the Moonman wins Moonbeam Children's Book Award

(Fairfax, VA) -- A panel of experts recently picked Nana Star and the Moonman as a bronze medal winner in the Book with Merchandise category for the 2008 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards. Read more...

October 28th, 2008

Jumping Jack Press scores Silver Moonbeam award

(CHICAGO) – Jumping Jack Press, the pop-up book imprint from Up With Paper, was honored with the Silver Moonbeam Award for the Best Pop-Up or Cut-Out Book published in 2008 for its Splish Splash, Dog Bash title. Read more...

October 24th, 2008

ARTEˇL wins best collection at Designblok 2008

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC — Arteˇl’s debut exhibition for Designblok 2008 received the Editors-in-Chief award for the Best Collection in an awards ceremony held Sunday, October 12 at Superstudio Dox.

A panel of international and local magazine editors awarded Arteˇl’s exhibition with this highest honor, from among more than 230 exhibitors. Read more...

October 21st, 2008

Midwest announces call for entries in ‘Sparkle’ display contest

(Cannon Falls, MN) – Midwest, leading designer of the Seasons of Cannon Falls brand of holiday and seasonal home accents, premium Colonial Candle brand of candles and home fragrance products, and Delight brand of accents to brighten the home, celebrates the positive in the giftware and home décor industry, announcing a call for entries in its second annual "Show Us Your Sparkle" in-store display contest to honor and award independent retailers across the country for their innovation and creativity in retail display. Categories include 2008 Best Retail Display of Colonial Candle Product and 2008 Best Retail Display of Seasons of Cannon Falls Product. Read more...

October 17th, 2008

CIB announces Third Annual Collectors' Choice Awards

(Grundy Center, IA) -- The Collectors' Information Bureau (CIB), a trade association comprised of top manufacturers in the field of collectibles and giftware, announces its third annual Collectors' Choice Awards. Read more...

October 13th, 2008

Award-Winning ABC
 Show Results & 
Industry Awards


(SAN ANTONIO, Texas) -- Thank you for participating in the juvenile products industry main event, the 2008 ABC Kids Expo. This year’s show proved to be a tremendous success for all attendees. Record attendance was achieved in nearly all registration categories, as total attendance climbed to nearly 14,000 (a 7% increase over the prior year). Read more...

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