Las Vegas Market announced today that it will host the first-ever FMG Bedding Summit on Saturday, July 29. The event was developed in conjunction with the Furniture Marketing Group (FMG), the largest volume member-owned networking and buying group in the furniture industry.
The summit will be geared toward bedding buyers who want to keep up with the bedding landscape. Participants will have the chance to network all day and go to morning classroom sessions on topics like best practices, business issues and opportunities. About 40 FMG member bedding buyers and merchandise directors have registered to date.
“Las Vegas Market is ‘THE’ national bedding market, with the top 15 producers represented, and we are very pleased to extend our partnership with FMG to directly address the needs of bedding buyers and merchandise directors,” said Robert Maricich, Chief Executive Officer of International Market Centers. “As the leading furniture, home decor and gift destination in the western United States, Las Vegas Market is committed to extending partnership programs with leading industry associations like FMG.”
FMG Executive Director Mike Herschel said Las Vegas Market was selected as the location for the summit because of its concentration of leading bedding suppliers.
“After exploring different formats and venues for the event, including retail store visits, FMG decided to take advantage of the beautiful bedding showrooms and the expertise of all the top mattress suppliers assembled in Las Vegas during the Summer Market,” Herschel said.
The FMG Bedding Summit is an extension of the FMG Annual Symposium, held each January in conjunction with the Winter Las Vegas Market. FMG membership currently stands at 114 retail members, who represent more than 900 storefronts in the U.S. and Canada.
