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Trade Show Update: Piercing Ken Is Approved For Curve New York Winter Showcase 2024

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Hello my friends and good afternoon to you all. I guess it was just about two weeks ago when I announced to the readers of the Ken Pierce Media website that I would be using its editorial voice to share any of the approvals that we are getting for the pair of website under our creative command. Since our launch in the middle of the pandemic 2020 I’ve been doing my best to have KPM be the executive branch and its been going as smoothly as I had hoped. Getting to the point I have just received word that my Piercing Ken website, aka “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken” has been approved as media for the rapidly approaching Curve New York Winter Showcase.

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Trade Show Update: Piercing Ken Is Approved For NY NOW Winter Market 2024

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Greetings friends and kind readers of the Ken Pierce Media website. In an effort to use this outlet as our creative command center for the other websites a little better I’ve decided to begin sharing the convention and trade show approval notices with you right here when they come in. I’m doing it this way because there is more than enough content being posted on PiercingMetal and Piercing Ken on a regular basis and with that being the case, having such announcements here let’s this be more of the governing editorial space that I’ve been aiming it to be. Now its time to announce that the Piercing Ken site has just been approved as one of the media that will attend the NY NOW Winter Market trade show next month at the Javits Center.

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Breaking News: Toy Association Announces Dates and Locations for Iconic Show

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The Press Release:
In response to a comprehensive evaluation of marketplace shifts and thoughtful consideration of the many constituents served, The Toy Association® Board of Directors announced today that the next Toy Fair® (aka the North American International Toy Fair) will take place in the first quarter of 2025, with March 1 to March 4 secured with the Javits Center in New York City. Following the 2025 event, Toy Fair will move to January at the award-winning New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The confirmed dates are: January 17-20, 2026; January 9-12, 2027; and January 15-18, 2028. The Toy Association and its board conducted an extensive national search to determine these dates and locations as the best available fit for the toy community in the upcoming years.

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“Prior to the pandemic, we heard repeated calls that changing manufacturing lead times and retailer buying patterns demanded a shift of the iconic tradeshow’s timing from February into an earlier fall timeline. These factors and similar research findings were accelerated by the pandemic and as a board we were responsive,” said Aaron Muderick, chairman of The Toy Association and founder of Crazy Aaron’s. “Now, behaviors and inputs have returned to more traditional views that Toy Fair’s key audiences find the most value in a North American trade event taking place in the first quarter of the year, ideally mid-January. We have again listened and responded by crafting an optimal pattern based on the needs of those we serve.”
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Today: Toy Fair Returns @ Jacob Javits Center

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It’s been more than three years since the banner emblazoned with the words “Toy Fair” have hung in the Javits Center and welcomed toy industry representatives along with select press and influencers and I am happy to report that it has returned and begins today. For four days this will be the place to learn what is coming out from some of the most amazing toy companies that are in business and since this is a trade show, the general public will not be able to participate. The PiercingMetal website has been attending Toy Fair since 2011 and then expanded the level of coverage over to “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken” for good measure. These days I like to use the voice of the Ken Pierce Media site when it comes to happenings that are going to be covered by each of the sides of our creative coin. To be honest I am not sure what changes will be in place for the events return but I am excited to be doing my 11th one. The pandemic prevented this from happening in 2021 and 2022 and while this used to take place in February, its been moved to September and well…here we are.

As you read this I am already on my way to the Javits Center. It’s a loaded few days with appointments and catching up with our long-standing toy reps and like I said…I’m excited to return. I’m going to be looking for all of the superhero action figure stuff, the Godzilla and other assorted Kaiju coolness and anything relating to the almighty KISS who you might remember will be ending their career in early December. All I can promise is lots of photos, editorial and some videos for all of the social media feeds and the websites. I’ll put a link down below for you to be led to all of our coverage posts as they populate but I ask that you be patient since it will most likely be a metric ton. You’re going to want to follow a bunch of the accounts listed on both PiercingMetal‘s and Piercing Ken‘s social media platforms to keep up. The hyperlinked text will launch the respective Linktree. Now, without any futher adieu. It’s go time.

For PiercingMetal and Piercing Ken Toy Fair 2023 Posts Click HERE

Official: http://www.toyfairny.com

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Trade Show Update: PiercingMetal Is Approved For Toy Fair 2023

As referenced some months ago, the Toy Fair will be returning to the Javits Center this September and I am happy to share the news that the PiercingMetal outlet will be returning as a member of the press once again. Our approval was just received and is discussed on the website in a post found by clicking HERE.

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