POZY Bears® Announces New Licensing Partnership with Carson® Home Accents

Everyone at POZY Bears is proud to announce our new licensing partnership with Carson Home Accents, a gift and garden manufacturer based in Pittsburgh, PA. After just 2 short years, the POZY Bear line has experienced great success but much more opportunity remains in regards to introducing POZY Bears to consumers and specialty gift and garden retailers around the country.

Greg Jones, VP of Product Development for Carson…. “Having built and established Carson as a gift and inspirational company, we take great pride in staying ahead of gift trends by offering sentiment driven product, competitively priced and of the highest quality. Adding POZY Bears gift and garden lines to our product assortment is a natural for us, due to it’s strong sentiment and messaging appeal. It’s the perfect gift for a loved one or for yourself. We are looking forward to building a great and fun line with POZY Bears.”

David Miller added, “The decision to bring POZY Bears to Carson was based on their passion for developing inspirational, quality products and vision for expanding the POZY Bears brand to different formats for the gift and garden markets. I’m truly excited about our new partnership with Carson and seeing POZY Bears continue to grow as a fun, expressive and unique brand for today’s gift retailer.”

Carson will introduce POZY Bears to gift retailers at the upcoming summer shows with new styles scheduled to begin shipping this summer as well as an outdoor garden line slated to ship early Spring 2014. Retailers can go to www.carsonhomeaccents.com for a complete listing of upcoming trade shows.

Carson was established in 1970 by Harry Carson, Sr. as the Carson Casting Company. It was founded on the idea that all products should be exceptional in design, quality, and an excellent value. Carson develops and manufactures several internationally known and distributed brands including The Original Rednek Wineglass?, Just The Right Shoe?, and Flagtrends

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1st POZY Bear Special Edition To Be Released!

Keep a look out for a special edition POZY Bear available late June, early July in Canada.  Canada Bear is available to all existing gift shops in Canada that carry POZY Bears.

Proud to Be Canadian sits at 4.5” and proudly holds his bright red Maple Leaf.

And as a reminder, look for the circle with a P on the bear’s backside to verify that your bear is an authentic POZY Bear.

POZY Bears Holiday Collection to Debut 2012

There is no better time to Celebrate the Spirit of Giving than during the holidays.  A special holiday collection of POZY ornaments and holiday figurines will be available this holiday season to all gift shops.  The debut collection will include 10 mini POZY Bear ornaments and 8 figurines.

Each POZY Bears ornament is about 2.5” in length with jointed head and arms. Each holds a special gift or sentiment celebrating the traditions of the season.  As with the larger figurines, each is molded from an original ornament hand carved from pine by creator David Miller.  After the molding process, every ornament is then cast in poly resin, hand painted and boxed. 

The larger POZY Bear figures hold either a special gift or are shown in a vignette with special friends celebrating the importance of friendship and giving during the holidays.  The complete line will be shown on the website by mid August and begin to appear at your local retailer early Fall.   Additional photos are also available on our POZY Bears facebook page.
 

And Away We Go! The Bear Adventures are shared with Friends	Deck the Halls May your holiday be filled with bright lights, joyous laughter and friendship.

Mini POZY Bear Ornaments

POZY Bears Invade the Garden for 2013!
 
While POZY Bears have been created to help celebrate our most important occasions, friendships and family, it only makes sense to also bring POZY Bears to the great outdoors.  Not to worry, POZY Bears will not harm your garden but are guaranteed to bring a lot of whimsy, charm and love to your favorite corner of the backyard.  The initial group of Garden POZY Bears features a bunch of heart filled bears who just want to fit in more with their fellow friends of nature and are willing to go the extra mile.  Some are caught dressed up as Bumble Bees and Ladybugs, others as Butterflies. Not sure they’re fooling anyone but they sure are cute.

Giftcraft® adds 9 New Classic POZY Bears

9 New Classic Pozy Bears will begin shipping early September.  The new releases continue to celebrate family, friendship and our favorite memories with simple but expressive POZY Bears vignettes and figurines.

The Most Precious of Gifts and The Look of Love share the joy of the newest addition to family, the quiet moment between a Mother and new born or when a youngster looks back for the first time with the love and warmth he or she has been surrounded by since day one. 

Making friends at every age in life is important, especially when just discovering the world around us during our younger years.  Adventure Awaits and Friends of a Feather take us back when happiness wasn’t complicated; it was simply being with the things that bring happiness and companionship for hours on end.  

Simple Pleasures captures a time when spending time with your favorites friends, whether 4 legged or 2 is the most joyous of occasions and often the most memorable as we get older.

Reading with a child opens endless doors of imagination, feeds their thirst for knowledge, inspires the mind to ponder the future and discover the great world around us.  Taking time to read with a child is undoubtedly one of the most rewarding times for parent and child.  Life Lessons celebrates this special time in a young person’s life, learning about great lands far and wide, animals big and tall, stories of great people and times from our past.

By Your Side is a piece with special meaning on several levels.  Life is one great adventure and we all are reminded of how important it is to surround ourselves with family and friends who are by our side to celebrate our greatest as well as most challenges moments in life.

And to complete the Fall 2011 Classic releases, Oh Happy Day reminds us to have a little fun and make the most of everyday…especially on our birthday!  And for those of us who simply want to say Thank You, Thanks A Bunch.

Celebration POZY Bears Launched!

Teddy Bears have been given as gifts to help celebrate our most special of occasions and people for over 100 years.  While Classics Pozy Bears will continue to capture heartwarming expressions with nostalgic inspired designs and warm rustic earth-tone finishes, Celebration POZY Bears will help us celebrate everyday occasions, milestones and people with a palette of very bright, vivid colors that are certain to bring a smile to faces, young and old.

Each sits approximately 4” tall, is fully jointed and made of Poly-resin.  Each is hand painted with a combination of bright colors guaranteed to bring convey a sense of celebration.  A hangtag is also included that can be personalized to the recipient.

6 Sentiments are included with the initial assortment, shipping to gift shops around the world early September.  The series will continue to expand over the next few seasons.

Celebrate the Spirit of Giving
…Introducing the POZY Bears™!

The teddy bear has personified unconditional love, comfort and affection since the early 1900s with simplistic designs and loveable expressions giving each their own unique (and charming) personality.  And while much has changed over the years, the fact that the teddy bear remains the most universal symbol of love, comfort and affection has not.    The teddy bear’s long heritage as a gift of love is the inspiration behind our brand new collection of teddy bear characters and their friends celebrating the simple pleasures of bygone days, life-long friendships and fond memories. 

Debut Collection!
Classic POZY Bears™ 

As the first of two POZY Bear collections debuting in 2011, Classic POZY Bears™ feature warm earth tone finishes, heartfelt expressions and unique jointing that give each Pozy Bear its own charming personality and character reminiscent of an old teddy bear that’s been nestled away in Grandmother’s attic after many years of providing unconditional love and affection.

The debut collection features 26 different styles.  From a little-bitty jointed bear (less than 3” tall) to a large display bear sitting over 12” tall, there’s a special POZY Bear for everyone!  You’ll see that we are offering 4 different color choices of the sitting, angel and miniature Classic POZY Bears.  We chose these four colors (Black, Brown, Light Brown and Gold) for two reasons; historically teddy bears from the early 1900’s were crafted in natural materials, most often in fabrics of these colors and because of the feeling of warmth and nostalgia earth tone colors impart.

Classic POZY Bears are hand-painted, jointed and come with a special original message printed on their hangtags.  Each heartfelt message is written with that special friend or loved one in mind. 

Over time some pieces will be retired while others may continue to be available to your local retailer for many years.  Be sure to check our POZY Posts for updates on retirements and introductions.  We also invite you to sign up for e-news if you wish to be notified of new releases, upcoming events and the latest retirements.
 
And Most Importantly…don’t forget to support your local gift shop with a POZY Bear purchase.   Your local gift shop is the perfect place to see (and feel) POZY Bears for yourself.  Sit one in the palm on your hand and you’ll see how their unique jointing, floppy-appearance and “move-ability” make them the charming characters that they are and before you know it…you too will want to Celebrate the Spirit of Giving with someone you love with POZY Bears™!

What if my favorite gift shop does not carry POZY Bears™?  No problem, just ask them to contact the folks at Giftcraft® by calling: (USA) 877-387-4888 / (CAN) 800-387-1777 or by email at  customerservice@giftcraft.com.