JusTea's Paul Bain at NY NOW Last year, JusTea won both the British Columbia Food Processors Association (BCFPA) Product of the Year award and the World Tea Awards’ Innovative Packaging honor. The Vancouver tea supplier showed why earlier this month at the summer 2019 NY NOW home/lifestyle/handmade/gift market trade show at New York’s Javits Center. “While other companies sell boxes of 15 tea bags, we have tins of loose tea with a viewing window in the lid that lets you see w

Today is Art Day's David Beaulieu at NY NOW At last week’s summer 2019 NY NOW home/lifestyle/handmade/gift market trade show at New York’s Javits Center, Today is Art Day, the Quebec City-based action figure supplier focusing on great artists, unveiled the latest additions to its growing catalog with Mary Cassatt--its first American artist--and two non-artist figures in William Shakespeare and Ludwig Van Beethoven. The company also introduced a second Vincent Van Gogh figure,

PlayMonster, having successfully launched its suspenseful Orangutwang game (whereby children take turns hanging fruits and jungle pals on an orangutan suspended on a vine until he gets so heavy he suddenly heaves it all off), is now hoping to help save the real thing. The Beloit, Wis.-based toy and game company partnered as a sponsor with The Orangutan Project to bring awareness to National Orangutan Day, which took place on Aug. 19, and the protection and conservation of or

Stitch & Story's new Peanuts product at NY NOW Over at the Stitch & Story (S&S) exhibitor’s booth at the Summer 2019 edition of the NY NOW home/lifestyle/handmade/gift market trade show at New York’s Javits Center, project coordinator Gemma Wilkinson was working on her own S&S knitting project. She was knitting one of the company's “Quick Knits” projects--the Mateusz Snood (“a classic moss stitch snood”)--in demonstrating Stitch & Story’s “crafting made simple” mission. The L