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Las Vegas Market Insider is a quarterly publication of World Market Center Las Vegas www.LasVegasMarket.com
| VOLUME 2, NUMBER 3 Fall 2008 |
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World Market Center Las Vegas
hosted 200 international
exhibitors, coming from
nearly 20 different countries, during July
Las Vegas Market.
Buyers from Cokas-Oiko from Solana Beach, Calif., shop at Mexico-based Canaco Tlaquepaque, located in Design & LivingSM.
“Like many other industries today, the
home furnishings industry operates on a
global level, and World Market Center Las
Vegas provides the perfect platform for all
facets of the industry to converge in an international
market,” said Robert Maricich,
WMCLV's president and CEO. “Now that
our campus reached critical mass with the
opening of Building C, we were thrilled to
be able to accommodate more international
exhibitors and buyers than ever before.”
Exhibiting companies included
Abimovel and Ditalia Moveis Industrial
of Brazil; Bellini Imports, Couture
International, Buhler Furniture and
Eighteen Karat International of Canada;
Eleganza Italia, Provasi, Galvanotecnica,
Cividina, Montina and Sintesi of Italy;
Altezza Furniture and Sanfra of Mexico;
Tema Furniture of Portugal; Velamen S.A. of
Spain; and the U.K.'s Trowbridge Gallery.
Given Las Vegas's worldwide appeal as a
destination and the influx of international
attendees coming into Las Vegas Market,
Maricich said it was a natural extension for
WMCLV to assume a truly global position
among U.S. markets, evolving into the world's
largest home furnishings complex under a
single management. He added that WMCLV
has consistently focused on forming strategic
alliances with trade fair organizers and associations
from around the world in an effort to
“infuse international content and community
into Las Vegas Market.”
Not only is WMCLV aggressively pursuing
international exhibitors to join the growing Las
Vegas Market, but Maricich said the team is
doing more than ever to attract international
buyers and connect them to its more than
1,500 exhibiting companies and lines.
In addition to an international business
center and multiple language interpreters
on hand, a variety of networking events
and outreach strategies in place for international
buyers at Las Vegas Market, WMCLV was proud to feature 280 companies in its
second edition of the International Buyers
Export Guide. The number of participating
companies has almost doubled since
the guide was first published for January
2008 Market. The comprehensive pocket
resource included a list of WMCLV's
exhibiting companies with information
about their international capabilities,
including export capabilities, minimum
purchase requirements, consolidation and
shipping services, bilingual showroom
staff, payment process and proportion of
products that are U.S.-made.