Category: Gerson Notes

Lone Elm LED Lighted Metal Letters

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Lone Elm Studios is pleased to expand our on-trend offerings of LED Lighted Metal Letters with each letter of the alphabet. Each letter is available for individual purchase and comes in a re-shippable box. Our LED Lighted Letters are manufactured with battery life in mind utilizing an exclusively designed extended life battery box. Each LED lighted letter lasts over 170 hours in the “on” position or over 30 days using timer function.

Lone Elm Studio letters can stand without support or hang on a wall. With the option to combine several individual letters of your choice, our LED letters can help you add a personal touch to your home or office space! Please log in to our website to learn more about our product and to browse the rest of the Lone Elm 2014 catalog.

Our LED letters can help you spice up your daily cup of coffee!
Our LED letters can help you spice up your daily cup of coffee!

Gerson in the Community

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As a company we exist to provide value to consumers in the home decor industry, but what really drives us is a passion for improving the well-being of the community. Here is a list of the organizations to which we donate annually. We encourage you to follow the links provided below to learn more about their admirable pursuits:

KidsTLC (Transforming Lives in our Community)

KVC Kansas

Olathe YMCA

Gerson Educational Scholarship (for employee higher education assistance, offered three times a year)

In addition to company donations, our employees make a concerted effort to give their own time in helping the community. Each Christmas we adopt a family. A tree filled with ornaments that detail instructions on what to buy for the family is placed in our customer service area so we know what to buy. We also regularly drop off soap and shampoo items to various charities in the KC area. So far this year, donations were dropped off at reStart, Kansas City Rescue Mission, and House Of Hope in Overland Park. This past May, a group of 27 employees and friends of the company participated in a Kansas City Color Run.

Personalized Wreath Arrangements from Gerson International

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Looking for the ideal floral arrangement to add an inviting touch to your home decor? We are excited to announce that the spring 2015 catalog for Gerson International will offer customers the ability to personalize their own floral decor. Natural wreaths may be combined with burlap ribbons, metal initials, and floral clips to create the perfect decoration for your home. A DIY video will be added to this blog in the coming weeks to make your assembly of the decorations fast and easy.

To ensure that customers may design an arrangement to corresponds with their existing home decor, we will offer a variety of options to choose from for each item. Wreath choices include brightly painted willow wreaths, eco-friendly natural vine wreaths, or trendy burlap wreaths. The chevron pattern, pictured below, is the most popular choice for our metal initials, though we do additionally offer a wide range of solid colors for these items. Customers may also choose to add a floral clip or ribbon trim to their arrangement. These burlap ribbons come in chevron pattern, patriotic-themed pattern, or may be customized with words of your choice.

Painted Willow Wreath
Painted Willow Wreath
Chevron burlap ribbon
Chevron Burlap Ribbon

Gerson Acquires Garden Meadow

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We are very excited to announce that The Gerson Companies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Garden Meadow Inc. and Garden Meadow Hong Kong Ltd. The acquisition is scheduled to close on July 16, 2014.

Garden Meadow is a privately owned designer and importer of a broad range of decorative garden products, both solar lighted and non-lighted items, located in Milford Connecticut. Garden Meadow has been in business for over 25 years. All of Garden Meadows products are original, proprietary designs that have been copyright protected.

Sandy Cooper, the owner of Garden Meadow, will work as a consultant to Gerson and Garden Meadow going forward focusing on new product design and development.

Our collective goal is to expand on the fantastic Garden Meadow product line. Garden Meadow has offered its product line to customers only on a direct import basis without domestic warehouse capabilities. Beginning immediately, Garden Meadow and Gerson will jointly market and sell the Garden Meadow spring 2015 product line to their combined customers, offering both direct import product and pricing and domestic distribution with products offered FOB Gerson’s DC in Olathe, KS.

Garden Meadow and Gerson will present their respective product lines at the National Hardware show in Las Vegas May 6-8, 2014. Gerson will also debut the Garden Meadow line in its Olathe, KS showroom beginning June 9, 2014, in the Gerson showroom at the Atlanta AmericasMart July 8-15, 2014, and in Gerson’s showroom in Las Vegas from July 27-31, 2014.

The transition period will be seamless to you after which most of the operations of Garden Meadow’s office will be moved into The Gerson Companies’ office. The expected move completion date is August 31, 2014.

For Garden Meadows customers, please continue working with your existing sales account manager. For Gerson customers, you will hear from Gerson and/or your Gerson representative about the Garden Meadow product line being offered for spring 2015.

We look forward to working together and thank you for the continued support of the Garden Meadow and Gerson product lines.

Best Regards,
John Hjalmarson
Chairman and CEO

Jim Gerson
President

The Gerson Companies Receives Three Top Ten Placements In GiftBeat’s National Charts

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January 15, 2014 – The Gerson Companies ranked in the top ten for three of GiftBeat’s national chart categories for the December 2013/January 2014 edition including Christmas Décor, Holiday/Function and Highest Markup. GiftBeat publishes eight categories in each edition but shows different categories in every edition. The categories are ranked by over 300 retailers across the country.

“During our last Atlanta show we had many new customers seek us out because of being voted in GiftBeat’s Top 10 charts. This magazine is the industry barometer for what is hot and what is not in the gift industry and which companies are industry leaders,” said Kevin Day, Vice President of Gerson International.

The Gerson Companies takes to heart the subject of GiftBeat editor’s, Joyce Washnik, most recent editorial titled “Change Will Do You Good.” A minimum of 70% of products in both GIL seasonal lines are always new and unique in every season. “We must have a fresh leading edge product line in each season. There is incredible competition. We must be in the customer’s thoughts and the top of [the customer’s] must-see list to continue to grow and maintain our position as an industry ICON and LEADER in the gift industry,” said Day.

 

About The Gerson Companies

 The Gerson Companies designs and imports gifts and home décor items for retailers. The company offers everyday items through many popular product lines available for purchase year-round and seasonal items available for purchase twice a year through its Gerson International (GIL) book-and-buy division. The April 2013 acquisition of Sterling Inc. completed The Gerson Companies’ Christmas line with trees, ornaments, tree skirts and stockings truly makes the company a one-stop-shop.

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Everlasting Glow© LED Motion Flame® Candles

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Thank you for your interest in the new Everlasting Glow© LED Motion Flame® candles. The realistic moving flame technology offered in each Motion Flame® LED candle brings the romantic glow of wax candles without the need to worry about an open flame. Each candle includes a five hour timer, a soft vanilla scent, and includes patent pending technology. Offered in multiple sizes, including pillars and votives, each candle works with three AAA batteries. The candles have a 30-day battery life when using three AAA and the five-hour timer feature. We suggest Duracell batteries to give your candles the longest life possible.

Play the video below to view our Motion Flame ® candles in action!

TJ Closeouts Now Sold By Gerson

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Known for its magnificent Christmas decor and ornaments, The TJ Collection closed its doors in November 2013. The Gerson Companies is selling all remaining TJ Collection Christmas, Trim-A-Tree and Christmas decor closeout items. In addition, Gerson will carry almost 100 of TJ’s best-selling items in its Holiday 2014 product assortment. Hurry as these items are only available while supplies last!