High Point Market Authority

By Petra Amelia on October 9th, 2007

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More than eighty five industry insiders typically descend on North Carolina for the market, at which thousands of vendors fill 188 buildings and 12 million square feet of showroom space with thousands of new products. While the High Point Market Authority wouldn’t release attendance figures for this fall’s gathering, it was clear from a walk through the market’s winding corridors that the industry is the latest casualty of the ongoing housing and mortgage lending bust.Hundreds of sales representatives stood in doorways looking for customers, instead of participating in the traditional dance of hand-holding buyers as they walk though bedroom and dining room displays.

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