Dallas Market Center to host Webinar ‘Adapting to Disruption: How Top Main Street Retailers Are Navigating Tariffs’ with Heart on Main Street
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
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Kelly Kozakowski
kkozakowski@dallasmarketcenter.com
Dallas Market Center, the most comprehensive B2B marketplace in North America, will host a webinar, Adapting to Disruption: How Top Main Street Retailers Are Navigating Tariffs, on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, 12 PM CT. The webinar, in partnership with the non-profit organization Heart on Main Street, will help retailers navigate tariffs, economic uncertainty, and the impact on retail operations. Top independent retailers will gather for a timely conversation on how they’re adjusting for summer markets and the holiday season.
Hosted by Dallas Market Center in partnership with Heart on Main Street, this session will offer insight into strategic planning, sourcing, and resilience in a disrupted retail landscape.
Panelists:
- Alison Dodson Anderson, A. Dodson’s (Suffolk, VA)
A brick-and-mortar store with a thriving online business. A Dodson's carries a mix of trendy clothing, distinctive home furnishings, exquisite gifts, and antiques of yesteryear. - Sara Faircloth, Faircloth Boutique (Detroit, MI)
A fashion retailer emphasizing color, sparkle, and shine. Faircloth Boutique prides itself in helping women feel and look their best. - Ashley Alderson, Founder & CEO, The Boutique Hub
The Boutique Hub is the world’s largest boutique industry community, connecting boutique retailers, e-commerce retailers, wholesale brands, product makers, and industry services and experts. - Kenneth Ludwig, Kenneth Ludwig (Chicago, IL)
This award-winning design & retail showroom has become the neighborhood hub for inspiring, fresh design ideas, home furnishings, and gifts as well as seasonal items. - Mary Liz Curtin, Leon & Lulu (Clawson, MI)
A lifestyle destination, Leon & Lulu offers one-of-a-kind & custom furniture, as well as a spectacular selection of gifts, books, toys, accessories, and women’s clothing. - Beth Rich, Mix It Up (Coeur d'Alene, ID)
Offering two retail destinations: one for Gift and one for Home. Mix It Up offers carefully curated, unique, quality merchandise for giving and living.
This webinar will offer insightful information for buying upcoming markets include: Apparel & Accessories Market, June 10-13; Total Home & Gift Market, June 18-24, TEMPS 18-21; KidsWorld, June 18-24; Lightovation, June 18-21, and the Men’s Show, July 26-28.
Learn more about Dallas Market Center’s initiative to oppose harmful tariffs threatening retail https://www.dallasmarketcenter.com/standwithmainstreet/.
About Dallas Market Center
Dallas Market Center is a global business-to-business trade center and the leading wholesale marketplace in North America connecting retailers and interior designers with top manufacturers in home décor, furniture, gifts, lighting and fashion. Inside its dynamic, five million square foot campus, nearly 200,000 customers from all 50 states and 85 countries seek industry trends, business education and new products from exhibitors throughout the year via dominant trade events for gift, home décor, holiday and floral; the nation’s most comprehensive apparel and accessories markets featuring the latest styles from East Coast and West Coast designers; the world’s largest western marketplace, opening in 2021; the largest residential lighting trade event in North America; and the largest and most successful open-daily design center. The marketplace is located in the strongest economic zone in the country. In addition, more than 80 percent of Dallas Market Center buyers report that they do not shop other market centers. To make plans for upcoming markets, visit the Dallas Market Center website and download the Dallas Market Center and Lightovation Apps. Also, keep up-to-date on all information by visiting Dallas Market Center on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the Dallas Market Center blog.
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