Dallas Market Center
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Founded in 1957, Dallas Market Center along Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, Texas (USA) is the world’s largest wholesale merchandise resource. Within its marketplace of more than five million square feet, retailers and retail buyers 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. The marketplace holds more than 50 major trade events each year attended by more than 200,000 buyers from all 50 states and 84 countries.
Dallas Market Center is a private company majority owned by CNL Lifestyle Properties Inc. It is managed by Market Center Management Company (MCMC), a diversified international company owned by Dallas-based Crow Holdings. MCMC owns the Brussels International Trade Mart and is a management partner for both ShanghaiMart – the largest market center in Asia – and LatinAmerica Trade Mart, the first international market center in Latin America (opening in 2011).
Dallas Market Center remains the international home of the lighting industry, a leader in home décor, the national home of the floral and Christmas industry, and has more apparel and accessories products than anywhere in the world.
Dallas Market Center is comprised of four buildings and houses more than 2,200 permanent showrooms offering more than 35,000 product lines from leading manufacturers. The campus consists of the World Trade Center, Trade Mart, International Floral & Gift Center® (IFGC) and Market Hall.
The World Trade Center, encompassing 15 floors, is the largest campus building and features gifts, home accessories, lighting, floral, holiday, jewelry, rugs, bed, bath and linen, toys, furniture, garden and gourmet foods. It also includes FashionCenterDallas®, an apparel and accessories marketplace for men’s, women’s and children’s merchandise. The D15TRICT Lounge, a buyers’ lounge and event space on the top floor, offers a spectacular view of downtown Dallas.
The Trade Mart has four floors dedicated to gift, paper products, tabletop, collectibles, housewares, lighting and decorative accessories and is the International Home of Lighting. From lamps to fixtures to chandeliers, more lighting product is available in Dallas than anywhere in the world.
The International Floral & Gift Center has two floors devoted to permanent floral, floral accessories and gift merchandise and is the National Home of Permanent Floral.
Market Hall, the 214,000-square-foot exhibit hall, hosts more than 60 consumer shows and exhibits annually, attracting more than 400,000 patrons.
Dallas Market Center holds four Total Home & Gift Markets (January, March, June and September) and five Apparel & Accessories Markets (January, March, June, August and October) each year. Aside from the trade stimulus topping more than $8 billion in wholesale transactions, these markets in Dallas help add more than $300 million in direct local economic impact.
Since 1999 there have been more than $60 million in improvements to the market center – including a 500,000-square-foot expansion to the Trade Mart that opened in January 2007.
In 2007, the Toy Industry Association (TIA) held its Fall Toy Preview at Dallas Market Center and announced that it will remain in Dallas for the next three years. The show, which is the toy industry’s most important preview of products under development for the following year, was previously held in New York City.
Dallas Market Center continues to strengthen its role in the youth market with the debut of KidsWorld, a 200,000-square-foot marketplace of children’s products on the 8th floor of the World Trade Center. KidsWorld features the nation’s largest collection of gifts, home décor, toys, furniture and related merchandise to complement the children’s apparel and accessories showrooms already in place.
The Dallas Market Center Web site is available at www.dallasmarketcenter.com.
