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Exploration Drives Summer 2022 Las Vegas Market

July 24-28, 2022 at World Market Center Las Vegas

Expansion in resources and programming is positioning Las Vegas Market as Summer 2022’s premier opportunity to source top furniture, gift and décor with new product from top lines complemented by engaging education and events July 24-28, 2022 at World Market Center Las Vegas.

“Buyers love Las Vegas Market for the total cross-merchandise buying from must-have lines,” said Bob Maricich, International Market Centers (IMC) CEO. “These robust discovery opportunities combined with proprietary programming and a celebratory atmosphere will create a market like none other this summer.”

Robust Resources

Las Vegas Market will offer thousands of furniture, gift and décor resources in hundreds of permanent showrooms and temporary exhibits across four build- ings on the World Market Center Las Vegas campus – Buildings A, B and C and the Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas. new-to-Las-Vegas brands and expansions by existing resources showing more accent furniture, lighting, rugs and wall décor. In gift – presented by branded showrooms and top west coast sales agencies on seven floors in Building C – lifestyle offerings grow alongside specialty categories like gourmet/ housewares and toys.

Growth is anticipated across all verticals. In furniture, offered on 31 floors in Buildings A and B, continued growth in bedding further strengthens Las Vegas Market as THE national bedding market. Designer-focused décor resources presented on 13 floors in Buildings A, B and C grow with

Las Vegas Market’s temporary exhibits will fill the Expo at World Market Center Las Vegas with their largest presentation to date. Hundreds of brands will show in six categories: Design, Gift, Immediate Delivery (Cash & Carry) Handmade, Home and Luxe plus a new pavilion for values-based brands connected with IMC’s acquisition of the Dough network.

A full list of Las Vegas Market exhibitors is at LasVegasMarket. com/exhibitor/exhibitor-directory.

Warren Shoulberg To Receive Gift For Life’s 2022 Industry Achievement Award Industry Leader To Be Recognized at Retailer Excellence Awards

Gift for Life, the gift and home industries’ sole charitable organization, recently announced that business journalist Warren Shoulberg will be honored with its 2022 Gift for Life Industry Achievement Award on June 22, 2022, in Dallas, Texas.

Gift for Life’s Industry Achievement Award recognizes overall excellence and contribution to the gift and home industry – whether as a thought leader, standard-bearer or overall industry influencer.

“Warren’s journalistic excellence in the home and gift industries makes him so deserving of this special recognition,” said Cole Daugherty, chair of the Gift for Life board. “His keen observations and analysis over the decades have been a catalyst for business leaders and companies to outperform expectations and to improve manufacturing, retail and wholesale.”