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Wantful (wantful.com), one of the fastest-growing online gift retailers, today announced a partnership with Nordstrom  to develop innovative gift giving experiences for Nordstrom customers. The first iteration of the partnership launched today with The Nordstrom Gift Collection by Wantful ( nordstrom.com/giftcollection ). The Nordstrom Gift Collection, based on Wantful's popular service, offers an assortment of thousands of unique products curated by Wantful in categories from home decor to accessories to specialty food and wine. Nordstrom customers visiting the site answer a few questions about the person they're buying for, and the service helps them quickly and easily curate a customized collection of up to 12 gift choices. This collection is presented to the gift recipient in a thoughtfully designed, custom-printed gift book, wrapped like a present. The recipient opens their book and chooses the gift they want to receive from their collection. Gift books may also...

Auri, Inc ., announced today that the Company has expanded its retail presence with 50 new brand placements since January of 2011. This represents orders for the brands men's or women's footwear into some of the best retailers in the country and abroad.  Online fashion footwear purveyor Piperlime.com added styles from Auri's Spring-11 women's collection , as did bellwether fashion retailer Nordstrom into 10 of their stores plus online site Nordstrom.com . "We will continue with our brand expansion directives in order to be able to present our unique fashion footwear products to a growing audience of consumers hungry for something better," stated Ori Rosenbaum , CEO of Auri.  "The brand is generating a strong following because we've broken the mold of equating beautiful shoes with an uncomfortable experience.  The concept of high fashion, high quality footwear with luxury that's immediately felt is resonating very well with a rapidly growing c...