The Columbus MarketPlace is the region’s leading market center for wholesale gifts, home furnishings and garden products. Our annual markets are major industry events, drawing serious retailers from across the Midwest and Northeast. The Columbus MarketPlace is a permanent wholesale market center open only to the retail and design trades.
It has a 30-year history and tremendous reputation for providing a great place to do business.

The MarketPlace holds 10 regular markets and one immediate delivery sale each year, during which all showrooms are open for business.
The MarketPlace philosophy is to offer a terrific atmosphere for buying and selling.
We offer retailers such perks as complimentary parking, free coffee and refreshments, no-wait registration, and easy single-floor layout to shop, plenty of lounge space to relax and refresh, cash-back rebates for orders placed in showrooms, complimentary business-building seminars and much, much more.

If you would like more information on showroom availability, please contact Executive Director Karen Knies via email, or call 800-686-6278.

New members/showroom owners are subject to approval by the MarketPlace Board of Directors and must agree to adhere to the policies and regulations established by the Tri State Gift Association.

If you are interested in temporary exhibition space, please visit the Temporary Exhibit Inquiries section of the website.