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Bob Maricich (middle) accepting the Trade Icon Award from Commerce Present Information Community (TSNN) (Picture courtesy of TSNN).

ANDMORE℠ Chairman and CEO Bob Maricich acquired the Trade Icon Award from Commerce Present Information Community (TSNN) at its 2023 TSNN Awards on October 28, 2023 on the Puerto Rico Conference Heart in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The annual award acknowledges leaders who’ve made a significant affect on the commerce present trade.

“I’m honored to be the 2023 TSNN Trade Icon Award honoree,” stated Maricich.“When ANDMORE was based, my intention was to create an distinctive firm of tolerating worth. By durations of development and innovation in addition to disruption, we now have upheld that promise. ANDMORE is proud to supply alternatives for patrons and sellers to attach, develop and prosper by means of bodily markets, design facilities and digital channels like nobody else within the trade. I settle for this honor on behalf of the entire ANDMORE group and our unwavering dedication to placing our clients first.”

“Yearly we select somebody who exemplifies true management, and for the 2023 TSNN Awards, we had been thrilled to honor Bob Maricich because the Trade Icon Award winner,” stated TSNN President Rachel Wimberly. “Bob was celebrated on the gala awards dinner Oct. 28 in entrance of greater than 140 commerce present professionals in Puerto Rico.” 

Maricich was celebrated for his management of ANDMORE since its founding in 2011 as Worldwide Market Facilities. Below his management, the affect and affect of ANDMORE has flourished, now serving greater than 350,000 international wholesale patrons by means of its bodily markets, design facilities and digital channels. Greater than 2,200 exhibitors showcase their merchandise in everlasting showroom areas and its 24 annual shopping for occasions current a further 7,000 short-term exhibitors in 2 million sq. ft. of commerce present exhibit area annually. It presents some 30+ attire, furnishings, present, house décor and way of life markets and shopping for occasions – in everlasting showroom area and commerce present displays – in Atlanta; Excessive Level, NC; Las Vegas; and New York.

In Las Vegas, he led the renaissance of World Market Heart together with strategic positioning of Las Vegas Market to make it the premier furnishings, décor and present sourcing vacation spot within the west, and the development of the 315,000 sq.-ft. Expo at World Market Heart Las Vegas to handle the dearth of downtown Las Vegas exhibit area. In Atlanta, the acquisition of the Atlanta Ornamental Arts Heart (ADAC), AmericasMart Atlanta with its Atlanta Market and Atlanta Attire portfolio and the Atlanta Conference Heart at AmericasMart, spurred capital funding to reimagine and reinvigorate the famed complexes and markets. In Excessive Level, ANDMORE has continued to increase its footprint, rising its affect to 17 properties and making strategic capital investments to enhance discovery alternatives. Extra improvements embody the acquisition and enlargement of Shoppe Object in New York in addition to growth of digital instruments to raised join patrons and sellers.

Maricich is acknowledged as an modern chief. His many honors embody the “American Heritage Award” by the Anti Defamation League, “Man of the 12 months” by the Tri-State Residence Furnishings Affiliation, the “American Heritage Distinguished Service Award” from the American Residence Furnishings Alliance, a “Furnishings Trade Icon” by the Worldwide Residence Furnishings Representatives Affiliation, “The Atlantan Journal’s 25 Most Influential Folks in Atlanta” and “Atlanta Journal’s500 Most Highly effective Leaders in Georgia”. In 2021, Maricich was inducted into the American Residence Furnishings Corridor of Fame, the trade’s highest honor. 

About ANDMORE

 ANDMORE℠, previously Worldwide Market Facilities, is an Omnichannel Wholesale Marketmaker that fuels alternatives for wholesale patrons and sellers to attach, develop and prosper by means of bodily markets, design facilities and digital channels. The corporate owns and operates greater than 20 million sq. toes of premium occasion and showroom area, internet hosting stay occasions in Atlanta, Excessive Level, N.C., Las Vegas and New York Metropolis. By pairing face-to-face occasions with always-on digital instruments, ANDMORE gives really omnichannel enterprise platforms for its international wholesale buyer base. ANDMORE.com.