Archive for the ‘Decorations’ Category

The National Christmas Tree Association is meeting this week at their annual convention in North Carolina. When you walk into the National Christmas Tree Association Convention, you can find a little bit of everything. Christmas lights, of course, along with the tools for pruning and harvesting trees. About 450 growers and suppliers are on hand ...
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New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning is a man of many identities. He’s a Super Bowl champion. A New Jersey resident. A delicious Sandwich. Manning will now and forevermore be a Christmas ornament. Hallmark released the company’s 2010 Keepsake Ornaments “holiday preview” this past weekend (July 10-11). Included are figurines of New York Giants quarterback Eli ...
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People’s passion for holiday and seasonal decorating is moving outside. In 2009 Americans spent nearly 40 percent of their annual seasonal decorations budget on new outdoor decorations, up from only 22 percent back in 2004, according to a recently released report from Unity Marketing, Christmas and Seasonal Decorations Report 2010 UPDATE. Overall sales of outdoor ...
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There are more ominous signs for a dreary holiday season in 2008. Sources within the Christmas light industry say that shipments of new-technology Christmas LED lights are down in the months of June and July, bucking the trend of a surging upswing over the past 18 months in the category. Some speculate that previous hot ...
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Donning Santa hats instead of sunhats, Gaylord Opryland Resort’s decorators towered overhead in cherry pickers today, stringing Christmas lights in the July heat as they begin getting the resort all dressed up for Christmas. The “most Christmassy hotel in the nation,” as named by the Travel Channel last year, has started gearing up for its ...
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Spare a thought, this warm summer day, for Oregon Christmas-tree growers, who are getting a frigid reception south of the border. Like Santa’s elves, the farmers are already sweating the Yuletide season, placing them at loggerheads with Mexico’s embryonic Christmas-tree industry. Oregon growers of the coniferous symbols of peace and hope are locked in a ...
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The plug may be pulled on the candy canes, Santa characters and toy soldiers that have lit up downtown streets for the past two decades. There’s a plan in the works to replace the traditional Christmas decorations with “more general winter-oriented designs” as early as this fall. “In the last few years we’ve got more and more ...
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Poor Port St. Lucie, Florida. For years they have been teased in the media because their Christmas tree kept dying. Season after season the city spent thousands in an effort to replace a beloved city symbol in a tree that had served well for decades but succumbed to a disease. They planted new trees each ...
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