Dallas Market Center launches mobile app

For each download, eight meals will be donated to Feeding America

Casual Living Staff -- Casual Living, 1/23/2012 12:50:00 PM

Dallas Market Center has released its comprehensive mobile application now available for download from the iTunes and Android App Stores.

The app, named DallasMarket, includes multiple tools to help buyers navigate market and keep up-to-date on DMC news and events. In addition, between Jan.17 and Jan. 31 DMC, will donate eight meals per download to Feeding America, the leading domestic hunger relief charity in the United States. For more information on Feeding America visit feedingamerica.org.

"It's our goal to offer the latest technology to help our buyers have the best market experience possible," said Bill Winsor, president and CEO, Dallas Market Center. "The DallasMarket app is the most up-to-date and comprehensive tool for a dynamic marketplace."

"We encourage buyers and vendors to download the app, familiarize themselves with it, and participate in market in a new way," said Cindy Morris, COO, Dallas Market Center. "The app is simply the most efficient method to make the most of market."

The Dallas Market Center app includes the following tools:

+ Search function, powered by Google, allowing quick look-up of exhibitors, products, and lines
+ Exhibitor profiles
+ Floor maps and a campus guide
+ Market food guide showing food outlet locations and hours
+ The "My Market" feature that allows attendees to mark favorite showrooms, plan
appointments and seminars to attend, and make notes
+ Custom reminder alerts that can be sent for special events
+ DMC Twitter feed
+ The "Around Town" feature that provides interesting after-market activities
+ Shuttle and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Rail information