Kids today - November 1, 2009

Children pull their chairs up to the small tables in front of a movie screen flanked by heavy purple drapes, enamored by the kids movies that are continuously rolling. They are inevitably excited that it’s not just another boring shopping trip with mom and dad, being dragged from aisle to aisle in a never-ending sea of products.

• Buyer's Guide
• Consumers stick with traditional gifts, colors
• Impulse Items
• Impulse Items

• Departments
• Eco Edge
• Everybody's going green
• Editor's Letter
• Polishing the crystal ball

• Industry Faces
• Martinek Bébé

• News
• JPMA: Juvenile product sales remain constant in 2008
• New company KidzWorld specializes in licensed upholstery lines
• Ligo continues to grow youth line
• Berg Furniture learns that furniture can spur creativity
• Show Review
• Size matters in juvenile footprint

• Retail Q and A
• What is your outlook for 2010? What are the generators of growth that you are pursuing in your business?