Dec 4, 2008

Outdoor Living Introduces More New Lines During January Market

(DALLAS) –– Dallas Market Center, the world’s largest wholesale merchandise resource, today announced that the Outdoor Living shared showroom will introduce exciting new lines during the upcoming Dallas Total Home & Gift Market (January 14–20, 2009). Outdoor Living, a 20,000-square-foot showroom located on the sixth floor of Dallas Market Center’s World Trade Center, features numerous exhibitors of outdoor furniture, lighting, art, rugs, fountains, statuary, pottery, garden accessories, and granite and copper fire pits.

New lines to Outdoor Living include Telescope Casual, one of the largest and oldest manufacturers in the casual industry that will take more than 1,200 square feet in the shared showroom. For more than 100 years, Telescope Casual has manufactured outdoor and casual furniture in Granville, New York. The company boasts a wide selection of residential, commercial, and contract furniture and accessories. Telescope Casual will bring the hottest designs in the industry for the beach, patio, deck and pool (www.telescopecasual.com).

Orlandi Statuary, a unique collection of garden accessories, will also join Outdoor Living in January. Since 1911, Orlandi has created pieces in fiber stone with exquisite attention to detail to make them a valuable asset to any garden. The company offers a complete line of garden décor, statuary and fountains (www.orlandicollections.com).

These companies join the hundreds of unique products offered in the comprehensive Outdoor Living marketplace.

Dallas Market Center hosts multiple markets simultaneously in January so buyers may select from the widest range of product categories: Total Home & Gift Market (January 14–20), Holiday & Home Expo (January 14–20), International Lighting Market (January 15–19) and the FINDS Dallas Temp Show (January 16–19).

Attendees may contact the Dallas Market Center’s in-house travel agency, Market Travel, for substantial travel and hotel discounts by calling 1-800-DAL-MKTS.

About Dallas Market Center Founded in 1957, Dallas Market Center is the world’s largest wholesale merchandise resource. Within its marketplace of more than five million square feet, retailers from around the globe source products ranging from home furnishings, gifts, decorative accessories and lighting to textiles, fashion accessories and men’s, western, women’s and children’s apparel. With more than 50 markets each year attended by more than 200,000 retail buyers from all 50 states and 84 countries, Dallas Market Center offers hundreds of events and seminars geared toward helping retailers expand business and increase profits. As a result, more than $8 billion in estimated wholesale transactions are conducted annually within the Dallas Market Center complex. The Dallas Market Center Web site is available at www.dallasmarketcenter.com.