Party & Holiday Accessories Retail Industry Competitors

Amscan Holdings caters to the party animal in all of us. The company designs, makes, and distributes party goods, including balloons, invitations, piñatas, stationery, and tableware to party superstores and other retailers worldwide. On the retail side of the business, Amscan owns or franchises about 955 party supply stores in the US, Puerto Rico, and Dubai under the Party City, Party America, and Factory Card & Party Outlet banners, among others....

During the holiday season, Calendar Club transforms empty retail space in Canada and the US into Calendar Club, Christmas Corner, San Francisco Music Box, and Go! Games and Go! Toys shops. The company's temporary stores range in size from kiosks to some 6,000 square feet....

Celebrate Express provides everything for a birthday party except the suit. Operating as Birthday Express, the company offers more than 150 themed party packages targeting families with young children through its catalog and Web site. Party packages include planning assistance (themes and activities) and supplies (paper products, balloons, favors)....

Fright Catalog revels in the world of disguise. The company (originally founded as Halloween Outlet in 1990) sells Halloween costumes and related accessories (including props, masks, special effects items, makeup, and prosthetics) through its catalog and Web site....

Oriental Trading Company sells more than 30,000 products from party supplies, to toys and novelties, art and craft supplies, and home decor through its Web sites and catalogs. (The firm mails 300 million copies of some 40 different catalogs each year.) These include such titles as Oriental Trading, Terry's Village, Sensational Crafts, and Inspirations....

Come on and party, America! PA Acquisition (dba Party America) wants to make throwing a party as easy as cake. The company's Party America and The Paper Factory stores sell just about everything you need for a party, except the cake; they offer balloons, costumes, decorations, invitations, make-up, tableware, and wigs -- not to mention those must-have party favors....

So you say it's your birthday? Well, your friends better run to a Birthdays store for those cards! The company operates more than 300 Birthdays stores in the UK and Ireland offering discount greeting cards and party supplies for every occasion. Founded in 1966 as Ron Wood Greeting Cards, the company was originally a distributor of cards and gift wrap until the mid-1970s when it opened three card shops....

Who will be the next president? For Buyseasons, election day is always October 31. The company publishes presidential Halloween mask statistics (which have predicted the president for the last few elections) on its BuyCostumes.com Web site. The site sells costumes for holidays such as Christmas and Halloween, as well as outfits and accessories for clowns and theater groups (and their pets)....

Factory Card & Party Outlet takes the work out of partying. The retailer operates about 180 discount stores in some 20 states, primarily in the Midwest and along the eastern seaboard. Greeting cards, beginning at 49 cents apiece, account for only part of the company's offerings, which also include gift wrap and ribbon, party supplies (invitations, party favors, candles, and piñatas), balloons, and novelty and celebratory items for birthdays, holidays, weddings, graduations, and other special occasions....

You can be sure there's a card for any occasion at one of the Greeting Card Group's stores. The company runs more than 280 shops (down from 500 shops in 2006) under the Cardfair and Card Warehouse banners throughout the UK. Cardfair stores are located mainly in the south while Card Warehouse operates northern focused locations....

What do you get when you cross a couple of investment bankers with TV's most ubiquitous florist? One rollicking party -- perhaps. iParty is a little firm founded by bigwigs: former Salomon Smith Barney executive Bob Lessin, Jim McCann of 1-800-Flowers, and LBO specialist Byron Hero....

Party City believes you should party hearty, and it has everything you need to do so. The company, the US's #1 discount party goods chain, has 500-plus company-owned and franchised stores in the US and Puerto Rico. Party City sells party supplies for birthdays, weddings and bridal showers, baby showers, and a slew of holiday events -- including Halloween, its biggest season, accounting for about 20% of annual sales....