HFPA's YoPros Gear up for Market Jam in September

Home Textiles Today Staff -- Home Textiles Today, 10/20/2011 7:48:51 AM

NEW YORK - The Home Fashion Products Association's Young Professionals, or YoPros, will be hosting their Market Jam event here during the upcoming biannual New York Home Fashions week in September.
     Set for Sept. 20, the HFPA/ YoPros Market Jam event is scheduled to kick off at 9 p.m. and run through midnight at Legends, located at 6 East 33rd Street off Fifth Avenue. There will be live music and special guests.
     Admission is $20, and all of the proceeds will benefit the organization's scholarship fund.
     The HFPA, founded in 1968, serves to advance the growth of the global home fashion industry by setting standards for excellence through technical product compliance, advocacy, and awareness efforts. Its HFPA Foundation supports students of home fashion surface design and marketing, and has awarded multiple annual scholarships since 1996.
     For more det ails , contact Denise Matlack at (310) 503-9805 or via email at MatlacDM@LouBed.com.