HUNTINGTON BEACH, California—Sportsheets International, one of the leaders in BDSM & fetish toys, has reported that the company enjoyed one of its most successful ANME exhibitions to date.
The Adult Novelty Manufacturers Expo (ANME) is held twice a year in January and July at the Burbank Airport Marriott and features displays by leading toy companies as well as products from new startups
"We have participated in ANME since the show started and it is amazing to see how much it grows in attendance from year to year," said Julie Stewart, president of Sportsheets. "In fact, before we even arrived at the venue we had a full schedule of customer appointments. Our customers loved our new releases and our new booth."
In addition to a host of new products introduced at ANME, which included an additional five kits in the Sexperiments line, the company also introduced new Plan-O-Grams for Sportsheets, Strap-ons, Positioning, Sex&Mischief, Edge, Sexperiments and Manbound that make it easier for retailers to display products more effectively.
ANME also saw the relaunch of the company's gay line, Manbound. According to Emily Silva, customer product specialist for Sportsheets, Manbound received a number of pre-orders and was praised by customers checking out the expanded booth.
New products weren't the only thing waiting for customers at the Sportsheets booth. The two newest members of the Sportsheets family—Corrin Brubaker, who serves as international sales manager, and Alanna Calloway, who was tapped last month as head of business development—were on hand to meet all of Sportsheets' customers.
"Being international sales manager for Sportsheets is a dream job," said Brubaker. "Unfortunately, the customers I deal with are usually over the phone and there are only a few international shows a year, so to finally meet some of my customers face-to-face was a real pleasure."
Sportsheets also got a last-minute boost when the August issue of Cosmopolitan was released just days before the show began. The magazine named the Sex In The Shower Vibrating Mesh Sponge its Sex Toy of the Month.
Lastly, to top off the show, Sportsheets founder Tom Stewart inducted into the StorErotica Hall of Fame.
To contact Sportsheets, call (714) 698-0868 or visit Sportsheets.com.
