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High Point Gets Ready for Market

The Super Bowl of the home furnishings industry gets under way this weekend in High Point. For the next week – High Point can expect some 80-thousand visitors.  The High Point Market is the largest home furnishings industry trade show in the world.  Buyers, leading retailers, journalists and analysts come from 110 countries to check out the latest styles.

Brian Casey is president and CEO of the High Point Market Authority. He says they can tell the economy is getting better:

"April (2010) market was actually I think in my opinion one of the strongest I’ve seen in the five years I’ve been in High Point.  So I’m hoping that that trend can continue with this April market."

There are at least three new showrooms opening for the spring market – Thomasville, Drexel Heritage and Klaussner.  Everybody from Jane Seymour to Gov. Bev Perdue is expected to be on hand.

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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