The Chicago Market: Living and Giving® Announces Not-To-Be-Missed Special Events For Retailers During 2011 January Market

The Chicago Market: Living and Giving® offers the best in programming and special events and this January is no different. As usual, The Chicago Market will offer mix of special late night shopping, networking opportunities and educational programming and seminars that are not to be missed. Event highlights include seminars and book signings from interior designers Frank Fontana and Mick De Giulio, extended late night shopping on January 22 and January 23 and a social media panel moderated by Meredith Schwartz of Gifts & Decorative Accessories magazine. These events and more can be found only at The Chicago Market: Living and Giving, January 20-26, with Temporaries, including Beckman’s™ Handcrafted Show, January 22-25.

The Chicago Market will offer a jam-packed buying experience with the following events and amenities. Visit www.ShopChicagoMarkets.com/events for more information and to RSVP for all events.

  • DEMDACO ARTIST EVENT: Learn Selling Techniques for Embellish Your Story by Roeda™ (Saturday, January 22) – Join artist and retailer, Carol Roeda, for an exciting and informative breakfast seminar at 7:30-9:00am, as she debuts her new line Embellish Your Story by Roeda for 2011. RSVP at our website by December 20, www.ShopChicagoMarkets.com/events

  • Navigating Your Floor Plan with Effective Merchandising Techniques (Saturday, January 22) – Join Retail Minded’s Nicole Leinbach Reyhle and enjoy lunch as she discusses how merchandising can be used to maximize sales in unexpected places.

  • What Is FourSquare? And Why Your Customers Should Care (Sunday, January 23) – Enjoy complimentary lunch from 12-1pm, as Meredith Schwartz and a panel of independent retailers discuss social media sites that allow customers to “check-in” to their favorite places in real-time via their smartphones. Schwartz and the panel will share how these sites can provide free publicity and how savvy storeowners can use them to their advantage.

  • DESIGNER DAY (Monday, January 24) – Designer Day hits The Chicago Market with two exciting design-focused seminars. Join Mick De Giulio for breakfast from 8-9am as he explains how the evolving phenomenon of a kitchen-centered lifestyle will impact the future design of the American home. Following his seminar, De Giulio will be signing copies of his new book, Kitchen Centric. Need another design dose? Stop by for Frank Fontana’s Lunch-n-Learn seminar from 12-1pm as he reveals some of his exclusive HGTV high style, low cost decorating tips and tricks that have been featured on the TODAY Show and Oprah.com. Following his seminar, Fontana will be signing copies of his book, Frank Fontana’s Dirty Little Secrets of Design, with a complimentary dessert and champagne happy hour.

  • Meaningful Experiences Through Merchandising (Tuesday, January 25) – In need merchandising tips and tricks? Stop by the Tag showroom from 12-1pm as Vanessa Nunley shares her trade secrets to creating a merchandised store environment that not only entertains customers, but also encourages them to buy. Nunley, an interior designer, life stylist and blogger, will offer meaningful ways to embrace and help consumers bring your products into their homes and lives.

CHICAGO MARKET: LIVING AND GIVING SHOW HOURS
Thursday, January 20 – Tuesday, January 25
Showrooms: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. | Floors 13, 14, 15
Saturday, January 22 – Tuesday, January 25
Temporaries and Beckman’s Handcrafted Show®: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. | Floor 8
Saturday, January 22 and Sunday, January 23 – SHOP LATE NIGHT!
Showrooms: 9 a.m. – 8 p.m. | Floors 13, 14, 15
Temporaries and Beckman’s Handcrafted Show®: 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. | Floor 8
Wednesday, January 26
Showrooms: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. | Floors 13, 14, 15

For more information on The Chicago Market: Living and Giving, please visit www.shopchicagomarket.com or call 800.677.6278 (MART).

The Chicago Market: Living and Giving is a trademark of MMPI. Beckman’s Handcrafted Gift Show is a registered trademark of MMPI. The Chicago Market: Living and Giving is the longest running gift show in the United States and is a quarterly wholesale tradeshow designed for store owners, retail buyers and designers to shop a wide array of quality products ranging from home accents and furniture to handcrafted or eco-friendly product to collectible items, holiday, baby/children’s product, gourmet and more. The Chicago Merchandise Mart is located at 222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654. For more information call 800.677.6278 (MART) or visit www.shopchicagomarket.com.

MMPI is a trade show and property management firm, specializing in managing buildings devoted to wholesale showrooms and commercial office space. MMPI produces more than 300 trade shows, market events and conferences each year.

MMPI manages The Merchandise Mart and 350 West Mart Center in Chicago; Market Square, the Suites at Market Square, Hamilton Market, Plaza Suites, Furniture Plaza and the National Furniture Mart in High Point, N.C.; the Architects & Designers Building and 7 W New York in New York; the Boston Design Center in Boston; the L.A. Mart in Los Angeles; and the Washington Design Center in Washington D.C.

Vornado Realty Trust, owners of MMPI, based in New York City, is a fully integrated equity real estate investment trust. Vornado’s common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and are traded under the symbol VNO.

Contact: The Chicago Market / (312) 527-7600
The Chicago Market
The Merchandise Mart / Suite 470
Chicago, IL 60654
United States

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