BrownTrout Publishers and Pantone have partnered to bring Pantone-inspired Fashion Planners to retail, available in two popular sizes. Features non-dated weekly/monthly planning pages, journal pages, smooth writing paper, sturdy cover board with soft-touch laminate, matching bookmark ribbon, elastic closure, expandable pocket with stickers.

Pantone is the world’s most powerful and influential brand in color.

Pantone lifestyle products offer sophisticated, trend-focused minimalism to all consumers. Simple, fun, bold, and elegant, it is practical and easy to use. It involves creative colors with a wink of unexpected combinations. Clever designs feature a modern aesthetic. Tactile sensations are produced from a refined finish. Pantone is nothing if not the trendsetter of colors, tinting our world and constantly improving the field of color communication.

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Pantone Planners

The original FranklinPlanner system was created in 1984 by Hyrum W. Smith based on Benjamin Franklin’s planning habits. In later years, additional insights were added by Stephen R. Covey to strengthen the system further. This combination has produced an unparalleled planning system that helps millions of people work toward their goals each year. It is FranklinCovey’s time-tested system designed to maximize your daily efforts.

Today, BrownTrout Publishers, in partnership with FranklinCovey, is maximizing the availability of this effective planning system by debuting and distributing brand new planners for expanded retail distribution. BrownTrout’s Better Balance Planning System utilizes the best planning tools, while encompassing the FranklinCovey principles, and building upon their time-tested system.

The consummate FranklinCovey Planning System user will see familiar planning pieces and parts, and notice new tools and angles, in the Better Balance Planning System, to use in their personal planning. Best of all, BrownTrout gives you more than just pages to plan... we teach you how. Rarely seen in other planning systems, up to seven pages filled with a Step-by-Step Planning Guide are included. Why buy an effective planning system without training? Our Better Balance Planning System also comes with timely tips on planning
for the results that you want.

When Benjamin Franklin was 20 years old, he established a plan for his life and carried that plan with him every day in a small, private book. Today, effective planning habits make a difference, and BrownTrout’s new FranklinCovey Planners will help make that difference for your customers.

This year marked the 15th anniversary of the Bonnie Marcus Collection's participation at the National Stationery Show. To celebrate, Bonnie signed more than 100 of her "Life is a Beautiful Ride" Fashion Calendars, published by BrownTrout Publishers, for Show attendees at her NSS booth on May 22.

A big Thank You to all who attended and exhibited at this year's National Stationery Show – I heard from so many of you what a great Show you had! We want to keep that momentum going and, toward that end, Emerald Expositions, the Show's producer, announced on June 13 that the NSS is moving to a February time slot beginning in 2019, to be co-located with NY NOW (running Sunday, Feb. 3, through Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019) at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in NYC.

Many factors went into making this decision – and we believe this is going to make the NSS an even more successful tradeshow for both buyers and exhibitors. Co-locating the NSS with NY NOW will expose NSS exhibitors to a larger group of gift buyers; and NSS attendees will be able to shop both shows and to stay longer. (NYC hotel rates in February are significantly lower than in May!)

NSS 2019 will be located on Level 1 of the Javits Center and will remain its own unique and separate event. We'll be adding a new Emerging Designers feature, and will host complimentary Mimosa Mornings and Coffee Cafes to help keep you fresh.

The stationery industry is a special community – a unique village of creative individuals and savvy professionals – where so many of us know one other and are truly passionate about all things paper. I’m looking forward to the new energy this will bring to our businesses and our industry.

Full details will be available on the NSS site soon. In the meantime, I'm happy to address any questions or concerns you might have, and I look forward to seeing you even sooner in 2019!