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Progress Lighting named a finalist for 20th Annual ARTS Awards

Submitted by: Kim Banks on Sep 10, 2008 at 12:15 pm Tagged with: ARTS awards, Dallas Market Center, Progress Lighting Source: Progress Lighting

Dallas Market Center, the world’s largest wholesale merchandise resource, and the Accessories Resource Team (ART), the trade association representing the decorative accessory industry, announced the 20th annual ARTS Awards finalists. Progress Lighting is a finalist in the lighting fixtures category for manufacturers.

The ARTS Awards is the premier awards program for the home decorative accessories industry.

Finalists were nominated by fellow members of the home furnishings industry, and each finalist must submit a portfolio that will be reviewed by a panel of judges to determine the winners.

This year, the judges include: Mark McMenamin, Senior Editor at Interior Design magazine; Janace Clarke, associate professor of fashion merchandising at Texas Christian University; Rawlins Gililand, retail consultant and expert; Helen Erdman, founder of Helen Erdman Interiors; and Pat Mayfield, founder and president of a business consulting company, Pat Mayfield Consulting.

The 20th annual ARTS Awards are sponsored by Accessory Merchandising, Contract Lighting, FurnitureStyle, Gifts & Decorative Accessories, HFN, Home Accents Today, Home Lighting & Accessories, Residential Lighting and The Gift & Home Channel.

About Progress Lighting – Progress Lighting is the largest single source for residential and commercial lighting, offering more than 5,000 lighting fixtures. For more than 100 years, Progress Lighting has been committed to providing a diverse selection of high quality lighting fixtures - earning them the reputation as the Number 1 decorative lighting line among builders and remodelers. Progress Lighting also responds to the ever-changing needs of the lighting industry with extensive research and development programs that ensure high standards of quality and innovation for the home and commercial applications. Headquartered in Greenville, S.C., Progress Lighting has four distribution centers located throughout the country that support one of the largest networks of electrical distributors and showrooms in the United States. Visit www.progresslighting.com for more information.
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