Traditional sales channels in tabletop.(Statistical Data Included)

Home Accents Today, August, 2002 by Gaylor, Ginny

Perhaps the most variably defined category in the home accent industry, tabletop and tabletop accessories can range from decorative plates to serve ware, as well as pitchers, vases, glassware and barware.

Dinnerware, one component of tabletop, is purchased by the vast majority of U.S. consumers, according to a study conducted by the NPD Intelect Market Tracking and Riedel Marketing Group in 2002. Of households responding, 99% said they own dinnerware, and 20% had purchased it in the past year with an estimated 11% anticipating a future purchase.

Obviously a growing category, tabletop rang up sales of roughly $5 billion in 2000, according to Home Accents Today's 2000 Universe Study, an approximate 8% growth from the previous year. Tabletop continues...

Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works.