New Store Opens:
Cost Plus World Market PremieresSecond Dallas/Fort
Worth Store in Grapevine, Texas; Grapevine Residents to
Discover the World at Opening of New Cost Plus World
Market
August 18, 1997 09:09 AM
GRAPEVINE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 1997--Cost
Plus Inc. will premiere its winning combination of home decor and
entertaining "World Market" stores on Thursday, Aug. 28 at 9 a.m.
The Grapevine grand opening marks the retailer's second
expansion into the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and the 64th Cost Plus
World Market nationwide.
Cost Plus World Market, opening at 1317 Highway State 114
West in the Grapevine Towne Center, offers over 10,000 unique
and affordable home furnishings and entertainment items
including gourmet foods and beverages, furniture, glassware and
ceramics, exotic collectibles, baskets, rugs and pillows, imported
from 50 countries around the world.
Featuring an ever-changing selection of home decor, table top,
gifts and decorative accessories along with gourmet food and
beverage, Cost Plus World Market targets its merchandise
assortment to enhance the casual living and home entertaining
experience. The company believes that the breadth and depth of
its assortment in current casual living categories position Cost
Plus as a destination store.
"We believe a spicy combination of competitively priced
international home furnishings with gourmet food and wine is the
recipe for success," said Ralph Dillon, Cost Plus Inc.'s chairman
and CEO. Nowhere is this more true than in Grapevine where,
"the demographics of the greater Ft. Worth area are the perfect
match for Cost Plus World Market."
The Grapevine store is a 19,000 square foot showcase of world
cultures that customers may navigate from a single starting point:
the compass rose etched into the floor. Stocked with international
treasures, customers will discover an eclectic collection of
merchandise including hand-crafted iron candlesticks from India,
18 varieties of olive oil, 250 labels of wine, hand-carved masks
from Ghana, recycled wood furniture made in Indonesia,
handmade birdhouses, unique kitchen utensils, hand-painted
ceramics from Italy and much more.
"Cost Plus World Market buyers have a heightened sense of
adventure and curiosity. They travel they world visiting remote
villages, centuries old factories and covered bazaars searching
for unusual and unique products to bring home to our customers,"
said Kathi Lentzsch, Cost Plus World Market's Executive Vice
President of Merchandising and Marketing. "Exclusive Italian
pottery, hand carved African tribal masks, or Balinese bamboo
wind chimes are just a few of the items that take our customers on
an adventure through the store where they will find special
treasures to fit their homes and personalities."
Hundreds of customers, civic leaders and Cost Plus employees
will celebrate the Grapevine Grand Opening at 9 a.m. on
Thursday, August 28. Activities planned for opening day include a
treasure hunt with customers and a personal appearance by Chef
Rick Robbins of the Stoneleigh Hotel from noon-2 p.m. In
addition, the Grapevine High School and RazzMaJazz Dixieland
Band will provide musical entertainment throughout the day. Plus,
customers will meet master Chef Martin Yan of the PBS show
"Yan Can Cook" on Saturday, August 30 from noon-2 p.m. as he
prepares his Asian specialities. Numerous gourmet food tastings
will be available from Tobler Orange Ghirardelli Chocolate, Cost
Plus World Market Coffee, Mezzetta, Thai Kitchen and much
more.
Cost Plus was founded in 1958 when a San Francisco
businessman blended his passion for travel and retail by selling
shiploads of hand-woven wicker he discovered during his travels
through Asia. In addition to Grapevine, Cost Plus, Inc. plans to
open six more stores for a total of twelve new stores throughout
the United States in 1997.
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