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Is there such a affair as an industry that's absolutely recession-proof? Many purveyors of antic appurtenances wholesale absolutely accept there is. "I'd say we're somewhat recession-proof," says William Green, buyer of Vandalia, MO based Green Supply (www.greensupply.com), which specializes in alfresco equipment, including camping accessory and weaponry. "We've averaged about 20, 22 percent advance every year over the accomplished six." Camping accessory sales abide strong, he says, "Because a lot of bodies still go camping if they can't allow to go to Paris or Disneyland or achieve like that. It's affordable, but it's still accepting away. Back the abridgement goes south, bodies alpha cerebration added about cocky preservation. And for a lot of people, cocky canning agency food, toilet paper, and ammo," he laughs.

According to the National Antic Appurtenances Association, absolute antic appurtenances sales are accepted to top $51.6 billion this year, up 1.7 percent from $50.7 billion in 2009. The accumulation additionally addendum that, according to the Monthly Retail Trade Survey aggregate by the U.S. Census Bureau, antic appurtenances abundance sales in July rose 7.7 percent over July 2009, to $3.6 billion, a amount about according to that of June's 7.8 percent access over June 2009. Year-to-date sales as of July 31 were $22 billion, a six percent access over the aboriginal seven months of 2009. Sales for 2009 totaled $37.7 billion, the alignment says, up 1.6 percent over 2008. That was the aboriginal access back 2002, back advance was 0.2 percent. Sales in 2006, up 10.6 percent over the antecedent year, represented the arch access in the accomplished ten years.