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Dallas Market Center is a global business-to-business trade center and the leading wholesale marketplace in North America connecting retailers and interior designers with top manufacturers in home décor, furniture, gifts, lighting, holiday, and apparel & fashion accessories. Inside its dynamic, five million square foot campus near downtown Dallas, nearly 200,000 customers from all 50 states and 85 countries visit each year. These business owners seek industry trends, business education, and new products via open-daily showrooms and exhibitors participating in trade events held throughout the year.

The Specialty Food Association (SFA) is a not-for-profit, membership-based trade association founded in 1952 and currently representing 4,000+ businesses including specialty food manufacturers, buyers, distributors, and others working in the industry. SFA develops and produces events, professional resources, and educational programs that support its membership and the specialty food industry as a whole. These include the bi-annual trade shows Winter FancyFaire* and the Summer Fancy Food Show, the annual sofi™ Awards honoring excellence in specialty food, regular research and trends reports, and more. Guided by core values of innovation and inclusivity, SFA and its member companies work together to shape the future of food.

AmericasMart® Atlanta is the nation’s leading gift, home furnishings and area rug marketplace and the largest trade mart/tradeshow complex of its kind in the world. The extraordinary mix of specialty product presented in its permanent showrooms and temporary exhibit halls—spread among its three integrated buildings. In its sprawling 7.7 million-square-foot facilities, AmericasMart’s specialty product takes center stage as the chief attraction for the more than 548,000 attendees who each year participate in its 15 annual markets. Its burgeoning product mix covers the broad gift, home furnishings and area rug landscape, and extends to include fashion apparel and accessories product in huge quantities.