Market Team
Management Team
MMPI is one of the largest trade show producers in the world. Our large and competent staff of 540 people is fully capable of all aspects of trade show management.
- We own L.A. Mart®, which for 50 years has been one of the leading Gift and Home Markets in the nation.
- We own and produce the L.A. Mart Gift & Home Market, which features the best temporaries on the West Coast.
- We have hosted National Events such as Dining by Design, Biz Bash, and LA Magazine's "Sex Issue" Launch.
We produce more than 25 special events annually which complement the many complex facets of trade show production on a smaller scale. All these shows and events bring buyers and sellers together.
We have a full-time team dedicated to all aspects of show management, including construction, renovation, general management, operations, sales and leasing, marketing and promotions.
THE L.A. MART® Gift & Home Market
DOWNTOWN DESTINATION
Celebrating 50 years of serving the Gift & Home community, the L.A. Mart ® Gift & Home Market is Southern California's most comprehensive collection of fine regional and national showrooms available to the trade professional. Encompassing 724,000 square feet of gift, accessory and furniture offerings, the L.A. Mart Gift & Home Market features thousands of premium product lines, from custom manufactured to nationally branded gift, home, and lifestyle merchandise. The newly enhanced and expanded L.A. Mart Temporaries make it the preeminent market center for gift and home furnishings products on the West Coast.
Delivering an unsurpassed buying experience, L.A. Mart is the anchor of the Furniture & Decorative Arts District in downtown Los Angeles, a center of city–wide renaissance and revitalization. In proximity to the residential redevelopment of the city's central core, L.A. Mart Gift & Home Market's prime downtown location, accessible by four major Southland freeways, is at the forefront of the hottest new area of concentrated residential real estate, ensuring optimum access to this emerging urban live/work community and its style-conscious denizens.
As both a property manager and trade show producer, MMPI has been North America's market maker for the industries it serves, bringing together wholesalers, retailers and consumers for more than 75 years.
Each year, MMPI hosts 70 major trade shows and consumer events and more than 300 conferences, seminars and special events throughout North America. These events bring showroom tenants and show exhibitors the customers they seek. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, MMPI supplies its tenants, their employees and visitors with a unique combination of business services and amenities to meet all needs efficiently on-site.
OPERATING WITH REMARKABLE TALENT
Partnership marketing lies at the heart of MMPI's design center and trade show management philosophy. We construct our marketing programs as platforms on which our partner showrooms and exhibitors can build their own events, because our success is based on their success. Staff members are recruited with specialized industry experience, bringing not only their recognized talents but contacts and relationships with key industry leaders.
Vornado
Vornado Realty Trust, owner of MMPI and based in New York City, is a fully integrated equity real estate investment trust with four major platforms - New York City office, Washington, D.C. office, Retail Properties and Merchandise Marts. With a portfolio of approximately 60 million square feet, with an enterprise value of $25.6 billion and a market capitalization of $15.11 billion, Vornado is one of the largest owners and managers of real estate within the U.S. Vornado's common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange and are traded under the symbol VNO.
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