The Unfinished Furniture Association (UFA) and the Las Vegas Market® 1-5 February 2010, announced that they have completed arrangements for an area to be dedicated to exhibits by manufacturers of unfinished furniture. This will be the first time that the unfinished furniture niche will have been featured in this way at the Market.
“We are very pleased to have the Unfinished Furniture Association (UFA) included within our February Las Vegas Market,” said Las Vegas World Market Center Senior Vice President Philip McKay. “Some members of this association have shown at previous Markets and grouping them together in one well-situated destination will be an added convenience for our attendees interested in this growing category.”
UFA is an international trade association of retailers, manufacturers and sales organizations in the United Sates, Canada and the Caribbean. UFA’s trademark certification program, Real Wood Furniture Finished Your Way®, provides brand support to members who provide consumers with quality real wood furniture along with opportunities for custom finishing.
With today’s trend in décor toward unique finishing effects and color, the offering of custom finishing at the retail level is an option that consumers find very appealing.
“UFA is pleased to provide this opportunity for its member manufacturers to interact with member and non member retailers at the Las Vegas Market” said UFA President, Bob Lamar. “By combining forces with the Las Vegas World Market Center, we can offer convenient shopping for all product-lines found in the new generation of UFA’s Real Wood Furniture Finished Your Way® member stores. In addition, we are confident that all home furnishings retailers attending the show will find value in products manufactured by our UFA member-manufacturers, many of whom offer finished wood furniture as well as unfinished furniture.”
UFA also announced that they will hold their 20th annual trade show in the summer. The 2010 Real Wood Furniture Finished Your Way® trade show will return to Cincinnati on July 11 – 13 and the show is open to all interested retailers.
For more information, contact the UFA office at PO Box 520, Spofford, NH 03462; phone: 800-487-8321; fax: 518-824-5719; email: ufa.exdir@gmail.com or visit www.realwoodfurniture.org