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High Point Market Authority Releases Statement On Coronavirus Concerns

Furniture World News Desk on 2/19/2020


The High Point Market Authority recently released a statement regarding the upcoming High Point Spring Market and the Coronavirus. The full statement can be read below.

As Spring Market nears, the High Point Market Authority reports that is monitoring closely updates regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), including reports from the CDC, State Department, and World Health Organization. We are prepared to take additional precautions if they become necessary to keep all of our market guests safe during the April show, as safety is our top priority.

With two and a half months to go until Spring Market, we have not currently altered any safety and security measures nor preparedness plans in response to the outbreak. We have begun conversations with our coalition of local medical health professionals who regularly assist us in providing medical services every market. These partners include the City of High Point emergency manager, Guilford County Health Department and emergency manager, and Wake Forest Baptist High Point Medical Center.

During a routine market, several medical services are typically in place. Wake Forest Baptist Health provides a medical unit within the market district to handle minor medical care. Piedmont Triad Ambulance and Rescue provides a fully stocked ambulance onsite to work in tandem with the medical unit. Guilford County and High Point Fire provide EMS bike teams on the street to act as first responders for medical incidents. Additionally, an emergency alert system was instituted in October 2019 to allow market guests who opt-in to receive text message alerts for weather emergencies, health concerns, or security situations.

If there is an elevated health risk during a market, these typical preparations can be escalated to include an exterior guest screening area before accessing the medical unit and the ambulance can assist with any quarantine situations that may arise. These elevated precautions have been implemented during previous markets in response to other diseases such as Ebola and SARS.

About High Point Market: High Point Market is the largest furnishings industry trade show in the world, with more than 2,000 manufacturers in 11.5 million square feet of showroom and exhibit space in multiple buildings in downtown High Point, North Carolina. Each Market attracts tens of thousands of retail home furnishings buyers, interior designers, architects, and others in the home furnishings industry. International Market Centers owns the vast majority of the prime High Point Market showroom and exhibit real estate, which contain seventy percent of the exhibitors, including the majority of the top 500 manufacturers. Fall 2019 High Point Market runs Oct. 19 – Oct. 23, 2019. For more information, visit http://www.imchighpointmarket.com.

About International Market Centers, L.P.: International Market Centers, L.P. (IMC is the world’s largest operator of premier showroom space for furniture, gift, home décor, rug, and apparel industries. International Market Centers owns and operates nearly 20 million square feet of world-class exhibition space in High Point, N.C., Las Vegas and Atlanta. IMC’s mission is to build and operate an innovative, sustainable, profitable and scalable platform for the furniture, gift, home décor, rug, and apparel industries. For more information about IMC, visit www.imcenters.com.