Nusso Pillow Forms at the One of a Kind Christmas Show

You will find many of our (Nusso Textiles) products at the one of a kind Christmas show. Our customers mostly crafters and smaller manufacturers use our polyester stuffing. , pillow forms,craft batts and quilt batts in the manufacture of the products they display and sell.


We have representation in pillow inserts, dolls, teddy bears, quilts, small toys and many other products that include our supplies.


Our location 200 Bentworth Ave in North Toronto  is on  the way down to the exhibition centre from Hiway 401. 

We open especially early the days before and  of the show enabling  our customers to pick up the supplies  they need. 

We also have 2 daily deliveries to the docks at the One of A Kind Show Centre. 


As a bonys we get to meet our customers who mostly order online and are now in Toronto to exhibit.

. I wish there was more time to meet you all. Amongst the many crafters and artsians.  We have met are an ex Memebr of Parliment. Police Officers and  Firemen. 

One customer drove 18 hours from the north close to Hudson Bay, really awesome. Salt of the earth people



Sorry i got carried away
Some of the highlights of the show  can be found in the links below .
http://www.oneofakindshow.com/toronto/showfeatures.php
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150346092852934.355307.32455477933&type=3 


the Show days are

Weekdays 10am-9pm

Saturdays 10am-9pm
Sundays 10am-6pm

OPEN LATE
Thurs Dec 1 10am-11pm

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We wish all our customers a "good and succesful show" It woud be unfair to single out any of our valued customers for special mention as i may have overlooked others,. 
We are proud to be part of your team
See you again next year

Custom Sizes Vs. Stock Sizes

Had a client come in today and request a "funny" size, i.e. a size we don't regularly make. I've blogged about custom sizes before but its worth mentioning again here. He remarked that the price seemed high as compared to smaller stock sizes. I gave him my usual response (which is actually true and not just a sales pitch) of "I'd rather make the stock size and charge less than make the custom size and charge more". He looked at me skeptically but ultimately accepted the price.

Custom sizes screw with the effecient TQM process we employ here, often casuing blips in the production process that filter out to other clients. Custom sizes are an important part of the business, so we should probably work on maximizing the efficiency of producing them so that they don't clog the production process.

The dilemna of keeping many different sizes

We often have strategy discussions weighing the relative merits of carrying odd sizes such as 10" x 30". Usually we focus on all the major sizes and leave off the more unique sizes as custom work. This becomes an issue when trying to close new accounts who are annoyed that we don't carry "their size". Ultimately, we focus on keeping a just-in-time manufacturing process to eliminate cost of carrying and reduce product cost and thus selling price to the customer. It is this lean business model that has made us a succesful manufacturing corporation for many many years.

We can and will take care of all of our clients and deliver whatever size they need. Custom size pillow forms are welcome with the right quantity, as their is an economy of scale for custom work.

Halloween Crafts made of our polyester fiber and quilt batting

There was surge of buying in September of  polyester fiber fill  and polyester filled pillow forms by carfters and hobbyists  this year. This type of  spike in sales usually happens in October for Christmas,.

Decorator Cushions Holiday

Upon investigating I found that  many small manufacturers, hobbyists and craft guilds are now making a line of cushions , chair pads for rocking chairs, bolster pillow forms ( no pictures sent in though)  and quilted wall hangings for Halloween.

I put out  an email asking those who bought the polyester staple fiber  for some photos and I  will post afew. 

Understandability the Halloween selling season is short however it seems its quite lucrative for clients of Nussopillows

We did help them out this year by offering orange and black broadcloth to colors very popular in Halloween crafts and projetcs
I found that the most popular size made this time was the 26x26 euro pillow form insert all the way down to the small pillow form 10x12 ( pictures enclosed) Here are a few photos that were sent in.

Decorator Cushion

Chair pad

Quilted wall hanging