Willow Group Opens New Dallas Showroom
Dallas Market Center, the world’s most complete wholesale marketplace, and Willow Group, a wholesale distributor, today announced Willow Group’s new corporate showroom (Trade Mart 2-2901) including more than 2,000 square feet of baskets, home décor, and containers for floral and garden. The showroom will debut during the upcoming Dallas Total Home & Gift Market, January 18-24.
“Willow Group offers a diverse product selection, quality goods and excellent customer service; we are thrilled to have their lines in two locations on campus,” said Cindy Morris, COO, Dallas Market Center.
Willow Group distributes baskets, containers, packaging and display for the floral, garden center, gift, food service and home décor environments. It is the parent company of Skalny, Willow Specialties and Avery Imports. Each division offers quality products at a reasonable price with great customer service, expedient delivery and all three divisions can be combined for one low minimum order.
Patrick & Company (Trade Mart 2-2927) also features the Willow Group’s product lines as well as others including: Bamboo Trading Company, Boston International, Brand Node, Caldrea, Cedar Mountain, Cork Pops, Design Imports, Dynomighty, F.G. Galassi, Lug, Mangiacotti, Michel Design Works, Run Run Run, Tea Forté and Tech Candy.
Both Willow Group and Patrick & Company will host parties in their showrooms on Friday, January 20 at 5 p.m. to celebrate the Willow Group’s new showroom and Patrick & Company’s 20th anniversary.
“We are very proud to begin the celebration of our 20th year at the Dallas Market Center as well as our long-term business relationship with all the Market Center staff,” said Patrick Ongena, owner, Patrick & Company. “Our collection of partnerships with the very best manufacturers in the industry is directly related to our success; and our sales force is second to none with collectively more than 150 years of road sales experience. We’re very excited to invite our retail partners to see our newly re-modeled and expanded showroom space.”
About Dallas Market Center
Founded in 1957, Dallas Market Center is the world’s most complete wholesale marketplace. 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 78 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 website is www.dallasmarketcenter.com.
About Willow Group, Ltd.
Willow Group, Ltd. is a wholesale distributor of baskets, containers, packaging and display for the floral, garden center, gift, food service and home décor environments. It offers a large array of products to meet any need. Willow Group is the parent company of Willow Specialties, Avery Imports and Skalny. This combination provides an extremely diversified product selection for your basket needs; packaging, floral, garden center, gift, food service, hotel and restaurant supply, home décor and display.
About Patrick & Company
Patrick & Company was founded in 1992 on the basis of customer service above all. We treat each and every one of our retail customers as a partner. This is considered a three-way partnership with the retailer, the manufacturer and Patrick & Company. As we enter our 20th year in business, we are proud to say that we owe our yearly double-digit growth to the support and partnership with our customers.
