The 65th Tokyo International Gift Show(Feb. 5 (Tue.) - Feb. 8(Fri.), 2008)

Tokyo International Gift Show (TIGS) is one of the premier and largest personal gift and decorative accessory international trade fairs in the world. It is Japan’s Largest Deal-oriented Trade Fair, opens over 4 Days. TIGS were established in 1976 and are held semi-annually, each spring and autumn, at Japan's state-of-the-art Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big Sight). With the spring 2008, TIGS marks its 65th holding, features more than 2,400 exhibitors and anticipates visitors of 200,000 from around the world.

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NAME: The 65th Tokyo International Gift Show Spring 2008
DATES & TIMES: Feb. 5 (Tue.) - Feb. 8(Fri.), 2008
PLACE: Tokyo Big Sight (All East Halls, All West Halls, and Atrium)
ORGANIZER: Business Guide-Sha, Inc.
ANTICIPATED EXHIBITORS: 2,400 companies (Autumn 2007: total 2,211 companies)
ANTICIPATED VISITORS: 200,000 (Autumn 2007: total 192,088)

The Gift Show is divided into 27 goods Categories to make it easy for everyone to find the goods genre or exhibiting company they are interested in. Let's introduce the notable points in each fair.

A: Young Fashion & Kids’ Stuff Fair
This fair gathers under one roof fancy sundries for kids through to teenagers. It includes cute character goods, joke goods indispensable at parties, cuddly soft toys, dainty variety goods and more!! You could discover tomorrow's hit product, catching the fancy of schoolgirls and female office workers with their sensitive fashion antennae.

B: Stationery & Paper Goods Fair
From stationery of outstanding design, to writing requisites rich in ideas and functionless, writing materials featuring young people’s favorite characters, or in traditional Japanese taste, plus stationery series themed around healing and peace, or items that bring a soothing touch to the office, merchandise bursting with originality tailored to the needs of our time stands shoulder to shoulder in crowded display.

C: Collection & Making Hobby Fair
This fair shows collection items like novelty figures, glass items or cloth sundries and hand-making kits for handicrafts or scrap-booking. This fair, bringing together sundry to complete the fun adults get from coming together and making something.

D: Active Design & Craft Fair
This fair is divided into two parts. One is the “Active Design Corner” centering on high-design gifts excelling in industrial design and striking the balance between function, “feel” and price. The other is the “Creators` Craft Corner” showing mainly hand-made masterworks outstanding in craft design, uncompromising on materials, “feel” and technology.

E: Home Furnishings & Decorative Goods Fair
This show brings together furniture, lighting, interior fabrics and interior accessories of a wide variety of product styles, more colorful daily life, and on the keywords luxury, affluence, discrimination, focus on authentic items which satisfy the mature adult’s eye for beauty and make no concessions on the function, quality, material or material-source fronts.

F: Beauty & Cosmetics Fair
Cosmetics, beauty tools, nail art and hair care products, diet materials, oral care products etc., the ultimate personal accessories that capture women's loyalty and keep it. This time, there will be a huge display of items indispensable for women of today, such as food supplements centering on nutrition, therapeutic goods utilizing ions, "body-making wear" to improve the figure, and healthy products.

G: Floral Accessories & Gardening Goods Fair
Living amid flowers and greeneries. This doesn’t only add color to our living ambience, but also introduces the peace and organic ness of nature. there is a vast and varied line-up ranging from natural interior accessories like flowers and greenery to adorn living or dining rooms through to gardening goods and exterior items to decorate the backyard or veranda or entrance. A lifestyle where you see the colours of the seasons and are aware of ripening and blossoming is surely the ultimate luxury.

H: Fragrance Fair
Fragrant goods, in the form of interior items or again as aromatherapy, provide diversion and soothing to body and soul, and also to our living spaces. At this fair, a vast range of fragrances from East and West are richly embodied in products to create zones of mellowness. Plus not only will there be firm favorites but you’ll also see a line-up of the products featuring the very latest fragrances and designs. In this way the fair proposes new dimensions of healing and ease. Be looking forward to it.

I: Lifestyle Goods Fair
A huge array of design items connected to our daily lives is on display at the Lifestyle Sundries Fair. From everyday sundries through to DIY necessities, tools, domestic electrical appliances, home-care and -nursing items, crime-prevention and emergency goods, traffic-safety items, ecological articles which are people- and environment-friendly, welfare goods and so on: this fair unrolls a panoply of products that add color to daily living and suggest pleasant and convenient lifestyles.

IS: Souvenir Gift of Japan Fair
Everywhere from local product stores at tourist spots to shops at railway stations, airports, on ships or at motorway service areas, items of enhanced appeal are in demand. At the multi-purpose commercial malls etc. which often surround us as we eat and drink, at easy-to-reach hot springs or state-of-the-art urban spas, at funfairs, museums, aquaria and cinemas etc.. Show visitors who are interested in these unique local manufactures and perfect sightseeing souvenirs should not miss this fair.

J: Personal Accessories & Leather Goods Fair
This fair handles accessories for smartness and elegance, and constitutes a huge assembly of various dress and trimming sundries. Again at this show, centering on a wide range of dress extras that are fun to use, like handbags, belts, gloves, socks, hats and more, we target the fashion-conscious young with an array of items to make the heart flutter.

K: Apparel Fashion Fair
A wide high-quality array of apparel suiting a gamut of lifestyles and living ambiences and emphasizing men’s and ladies' wear while taking in relaxation wear, ladies` tops and blouses etc., home wear, furs and traditional Japanese dress is displayed. From the beginning, fashion has meant fun and surprise, has given a feeling of satisfaction to the purchaser. For buyers looking for apparel to excite the consumer and put them in a good mood, the “Apparel Fashion Fair” is unmissable.

L: Jewelry & Fashion Accessory Fair
Jewelry and fashion accessories take the leading role among gifts whatever the age or season. In addition, in fashion sundries shops, among which competition is intensifying, a stock-range which generates increase in customer numbers and average customer spend is regarded as the most needful element. You won’t forget with its strong presence of goods to increase customer numbers, foster repeat customers and stimulate impulse buying, with its fresh and alluring array of merchandise.

M: Sports & Leisure Goods Corner
The Sports & Playing Goods Corner once again boasts a full range of outdoor goods like bicycles and tents, plus sportswear with a strong fashion sense. We unveil panoply of merchandise which lets people enjoy sport, play and fashion simultaneously as a totality. This fair, spreading the news on new and trend-setting sports and games, is required viewing for buyers.

N: Import Gift Fair (US/Europe/Oceania)
Gift goods from the West and Oceania are unveiled at a stroke at the Imported Gifts Fair. Japanese trading companies will be showing refined interior items, accessories, house-wear etc. from Europe, replete in style and tradition, while American pop sundries too compete for display space.

O: Import Gift Fair (Asia/Africa/Central & South America)
In this East Hall 3, bringing together a vast variety of gift genres, from upmarket to downmarket, from Asian products now hot sellers through to traditional crafts reflecting old traditions. If you miss this Import Gift Fair taking place as Tokyo greets the first days of Spring, then perhaps it’s no exaggeration to say that you’ll have problems talking about the coming Asian trends. A host of overseas exhibitors await you at this Imported Gift Fair, where you can do business without leaving Japan.

P: Character License Fair
Character license goods account for many products which have enjoyed long-running sales in the consumer goods market. Aiming to promote interchange and distribution in the character business through 1.licenser/ licensee encounters, 2.licenser/corporate product development manager encounters, 3.licenser/sales promotion agency encounters and 4.licenser/buyer encounters.

Q: Pet Goods Fair
Treatment of pets themselves as “brands” is a matter of course in recent years; the pet accessory industry is a sector with a potential for big business opportunities and the generation of a variety of new business modes.At the Gift Show, specialized pet boutiques offer a wide range of high-grade pet articles from pet toys, therapeutic goods, animal character products, as well as toilet necessities and even funeral goods.

R: Museum Goods Corner
The Gift Show present a big line-up of museum goods, art goods - those ultimately tasteful and pleasing articles with their air of authenticity, their product quality, their style and design - supported by unflagging technical innovation and background market research.

T: IT Related & Entertainment Goods Corner
Perhaps it’s because the number portability system is soon to be introduced, but certainly, the feature of this fair this time is how the proportion of exhibitors displaying mobile phone accessories has become extraordinarily high. In addition, you will find a rich display of image- and music-related entertainment goods.

U: Retail Support Corner
On display this time are in-store promotion goods, sales promotion tools, signage, displays, shop fittings, information systems and more for retailers like department stores and specialty shops, corporate users, in fact for every type of retail business. Buyers are in for a treat!

V: Meal-enhancing Table Ware Fair
This Food-enhancing Tableware Fair makes lifestyle suggestions capturing the dinner-table scene with cross-genre goods sharing the same “food-enhancing” theme ranging through cooking-ware, crockery and cutlery to tablecloths. A concentration of fine kitchen and dining goods are brought together here, so do seize this opportunity.

W: Watch & Clock Corner
The Watch & Clock Corner shows a multiplicity of moving craftsmanship items to inspire dreams. On display you’ll find wristwatches to last a lifetime and bring back a wealth of memories, fashion watches you change everyday like clothing, wall- and standing-clocks for the living-room to be consulted every day, alarm clocks announcing time to rise and sports watches indispensable for jogging.

Y: Christmas & Bridal / Anniversary Gift Fair
Chances to give personal presents, like weddings, Christmas, New Year, birthdays and so on certainly loosen the consumer’s purse-strings. Shop and counter creation that makes those chances clear to customers and puts them in the buying mood are just as necessary here as a love of gift-giving itself. This fair constitutes a vast assembly of such heartfelt gift ideas. You can look forward to it.

Z: Traditional & Modern Japan Brand
For this event, behind the concept “incorporating Japanese culture and traditional technologies into the contemporary lifestyle and communicating the results to both domestic and overseas buyers ", we are recruiting exhibitors with goods using traditional technologies, or exhibitors with goods or ideas whose design includes a particularly Japanese element, but which is also adapted to today's lifestyle.