Birth Announcements

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• Birth Announcements

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• Link Gay and Lesbian Adoption Announcements and
  Birth Announcements

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Close to 2,000 greeting card publishers exist in
the U.S. today, including small, family-run as
well as large, corporate organisations. In 1941
there were only 100 greeting card companies
rendering around 43 million in sales at the
wholesale level. ...
http//www.paperfile.com/html/i_usn.htm
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• 35 individual cards per year are purchased by the
  average U.S. household.
• The Brits send 55 per year
• http//www.cardgroup.com/greeting-card-market1.htm
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Canada

•  According to the Mintel report on the greeting
  card industry
•    In 2004, the total industry sales were
  estimated to be 7,658,000,000.00
• The industry is divided into three categories
• Hallmark Inc. 58.4
• Carlton Cards 26.9
• Others 14.7
• https//students.bus.ualberta.ca/misman/market_ana
  lysis.htm

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Top 20 names 2008
http//www.innocentenglish.com/popular-boy-girl-ba
by-names/popular-baby-names-2005.html
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