PRIDE FAMILY BRANDS HAS ANNOUNCED THAT DESIGN planning for its 2017 new-product debuts is on track to add, once again, multiple collections and hundreds of new items. Pride Family Brands is known for the depth of its introductions each season. To this end, its design and management teams recently met in the company’s manufacturing facilities in San Jose, Costa Rica, for a week-long 2017 new-product forum. At the gathering, prototypes of 2017 products set for introduction during the upcoming summer markets were unveiled.

Steve Lowsky, CEO, says, “Each season, we hear that retailers visit the Pride Family Brands showroom first because of the volume and diversity of product introductions. This year, once again, our team will not disappoint.”

Petey Fleischut of Casual Marketplace (Hockessin, Delaware) says, “This showroom is absolutely a first stop for us.” A similar sentiment was expressed at a recent market by Arash Amini of Amini’s (Chesterfield, Missouri). He says, “We love the product; that is why we’re always back and early.”