Show of the Week - Intl. Lighting & Accessories Market
Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 1/15/2007
- Where: Dallas Market Center (always the same)
- When: Jan. 18–22 (semiannual)
- Show manager: Dallas Market Center
- General service contractor: GES Exposition Services
- Who exhibits: Lighting and lighting accessory manufacturers
- Who attends: Retail lighting showroom buyers
- 2007 show statistics (estimated): 873,000 net sq. ft.; 300 exhibiting companies; 3,000 buyers
- New this year: Official grand opening of a 500,000 sq. ft. expansion of the Dallas Market Center the morning of Jan. 18, first day of the show, providing nearly 900,000 sq. ft. specifically for the lighting and accessories sector
- The bottom line: With an expansion being officially opened on the first day of the show, the focus would seem to be on lamps, light bulbs, etc. In fact, the lighting and accessories market is just one of six tradeshows held at the Dallas Market Center the same week in January. Besides the lighting show, there is the Intl. Gift & Home Accessories Market, Holiday and Home Expo, Furniture Market, Natl. Gourmet Food Show and — this year — a new show called F!INDS Temp Show.
Sources: Dallas Market Center, 2007 TSW Data Book
