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From the Past Comes Our Future
When the doors to the first Atlanta market opened for business in January 1957, the place we now know as AmericasMart lay in the distant future. And while the product mix and market experience awaiting you here could not have been imagined then, the vision for a global trading center was unquestionably present.
That founding vision sustains and empowers our mission to create a marketplace unlike any other—designed for your ultimate convenience with on-site door-to-door rapid rail service direct to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, flights to every continent on the planet, 12,000 hotel rooms within walking distance and the world’s single-largest product collection all here.
January 2017 marks the 60th Atlanta winter market under continuous Portman Family ownership and management.
It is a market both six decades in the making and as new as tomorrow...set to reveal all the innovation, inspiration, imagination, creativity and excitement the home, gift, rug and apparel industries
can achieve.
Come, see and discover.
How good it will be to welcome you here. Sincerely,
Jeffrey L. Portman, Sr.
Vice Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer
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