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forward to more than 200 independent designers
joining us for Market in June 2015.”
“Retailers on Main Street, in museum shops, and
even in our National Park stores are under increasing
pressure from their customers to carry more Amer-
ican-made products,” says Wendy Rosen, President
and founder of the American Made Show. “It’s our job
to provide an authentic alternative to the look-alike
imports that are ofen presented as authentic Ameri-
can handcrafs. We’re pleased to ofer hundreds of
lines to Dallas buyers and allow our designers to ac-
cess a new customer base.”

“As champions of unique

product and small
business, the partnership

is a perfect ft and we

look forward to more

than 200 independent

designers joining us for
Market in June 2015.”

— Bill Winsor, President and CEO of Dallas
Market Center

The American Made Show to be held in Dallas is
in addition to the former’s January 16-19, 2015 mar-
ket in Washington, D.C. The American Made Show
is a premier wholesale market for designer prod-
ucts handcrafed by studio artists from the U.S. and
Canada. The Show caters to professional artists who
wholesale their work, and retailers who value the dis-
tinctively diferent look of handcrafed American and
Canadian products in their stores. Designers include
the “Maker” movement, a new generation of micro-
manufacturers who are innovating and producing solo
or with small stafs. Many of these small-scale produc-
ers start their businesses on kitchen tables or in their
garages, testing sales at local farmers markets, fairs, or
with well-known e-retailers.

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