Article: HIGH SPIRITS AT MONTREAL FAIR.

Byline: Brian Dunn

MONTREAL -- Retailers shopping the 23rd annual North American Fur and Fashion Exhibition here May 8-11 at Place Bonaventure said they were enthusiastic about the upcoming season.

The 200,000-square-foot exhibition hall was sold out, as 200 exhibitors were kept busy writing an estimated $1 million worth of orders from about 4,000 buyers from around the world. And overall demand for fur products continues to increase, with retail fur sales in the U.S. last year at $1.8 billion, up 7.5 percent compared with 2003. Canadian fur exports, 80 percent destined for the U.S., totaled $288.8 million in 2004, an 8 percent increase from the ...

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