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07282014 Las Vegas Market Opening Day Draws Growing Number of Buyers

7/28/2014

LAS VEGAS MARKET OPENING DAY
DRAWS GROWING NUMBER OF BUYERS

LAS VEGAS – Summer Las Vegas Market, which opened July 27 and runs through July 31, welcomed a growing number of buyers from an increasingly diverse range of U.S. regions and countries, according to Robert Maricich, chief executive officer of International Market Centers.  Overall Market pre-registrations ran 7% ahead of Winter 2014 and 32% ahead of Summer 2013.

The ongoing expansion of better resources in permanent showrooms and temporary exhibits also has fueled record growth in designer pre-registrations, which surpassed last summer by 133%.  Additionally, overall pre-registration growth in key target regions amounted to 33% gains from the Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas, 20% gains from the Midwest and 18% gains from the West. 

“Las Vegas Market is bigger and better than it has ever been before,” said Maricich.  “Our accelerated resource growth, coupled with a striking increase in better goods across all categories of merchandise, has positioned Las Vegas as the leading furniture, home decor and gift destination in the western United States.”

 Las Vegas Market has also increased the overall quality of offerings – from furniture and home decor to gift and lifestyle.  With scores of new leading brands and hundreds of new upper-end lines presented across all categories, Las Vegas Market has created a more vibrant and synergistic cross-category shopping experience for retailers and interior designers alike, according to Maricich. 

Maricich summed up the positive opening day atmosphere, saying, “We’re creating a compelling environment to make buyers come.  We’ve increased the quantity of resources and we’ve enriched the quality of resources, and the industry has responded.”

 

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