Dallas Market Center Sets Summer Campaign for World Central Kitchen

Dallas Market Center, in conjunction with select showrooms, will host a summer Gift for Life fundraising campaign, “This Showroom Feeds Families,” to support World Central Kitchen and its efforts to provide crisis-related hunger relief in Ukraine, the United States and other locations.

“I am inspired by the creativity and generosity of our Market Center partners,” said Cole Daugherty, Gift for Life chair and senior vice President of exhibitor marketing at Dallas Market Center. “Our goal is to raise over $30,000 for World Central Kitchen this June. Between our Retailer Excellence Awards fundraiser and Summer Market fundraiser, we already are well under way to surpass that target.”

Each participating showroom will have a custom program for fundraising during the June Total Home & Gift Market, June 22-28. Showrooms and participating brands will contribute via direct donations or $1 per-order donations. Buyers will participate via rounding-up per order, adding $1 per order, and/or direct donations via QR codes in the showrooms. Each showroom will have details available on how to help clearly posted within their showroom.

Participating showrooms include Cliff Price & Co. (TM 1800), Goetz Inc. (TM 2000), Ivystone (WTC 236), J Brandes (TM 1610), KBD Sales (TM 2038), NextGen Dallas (TM 1028), Nora Fleming (TM 2050), Park Hill (WTC 321), Patrick & Co. (TM 2927), Portico Collection (WTC 631) and Road Runners (TM 1743).

Generous direct donation support already has come from Creative CoOp (TM 2454) and OneCoast (WTC 265).

Gift for Life also is fundraising for World Kitchen in connection with the 71^st annual Retailer Excellence Awards, on June 22, at the Dallas Tower Club. During the event, Gift for Life will present its 2022 Industry Achievement Award to Warren Shoulberg, long time industry editor and retail reporter, in recognition of his overall excellence and contribution to the gift and home industry as a thought leader, standard-bearer and overall industry influencer.

Hosted by Gifts & Decorative Accessories, the Retailer Excellence Awards recognize excellence in seven retail awards categories, as well as the vendor and manufacturer’s rep of the year distinctions. Register at www.retailerexcellenceawards.com, and donate to World Central Kitchen in support of Warren at https://donate.wck.org/REA2022.

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