Industry veteran Nancy Barlar will join Dallas Market Center as Senior Executive Director of New Business, the company has announced. Barlar will be responsible for identifying and welcoming new gift and home décor brands to The Temps at Total Home & Gift Market. She brings more than two decades of experience to Dallas Market Center, most recently having served in a key business development role with AmericasMart Atlanta. Barlar will report to Dallas Market Center SVP of Leasing, Jo Ann Miller Marshall.
“Nancy has a merchant’s eye for great brands, a keen understanding of what will help retailers thrive, and a passion for our business that’s unmatched,” said Jo Ann Miller Marshall. “As a native Texan, Nancy has enthusiastically followed DMC’s remarkable momentum over the past several years. She has seen first-hand, the strong business being conducted in Dallas. Nancy’s dynamic energy combined with her industry relationships and expertise will be a great addition to our already amazing team. We are delighted to welcome her!”
Barlar joins Dallas Market Center during unprecedented growth in new buyers visiting the marketplace from across the country and new brands taking space in permanent showrooms and in temporary booths during trade events. The reimagined June 2023 Temps at Total Home & Gift Market was the largest summer exhibition in more than a decade and included hundreds of new exhibitors across five distinct neighborhoods.
“The last three years have seen a clear shift in where better business is being created. Dallas is the marketplace people are talking about, especially its continuing growth and bedrock commitment to the customer,” said Nancy Barlar. “I’m excited to join a team that has a long-range strategy, understands how to support both buyers and sellers, and remains true to its family-owned company values.”
Barlar joins a team of leadership in gift and home that includes Jo Ann Miller Marshall, SVP Leasing; Joan Ulrich, EVP Leasing; Dave Savula, Business Development Strategist; Karol Sullins, Executive Director; Nancy Wolkow, Nancy Axtman, Marie Quinn and Ashley Chaney, Leasing Directors.
Barlar most recently served as Executive Director with AmericasMart Atlanta, responsible for new business development and sales for gift and home tradeshows. Prior to that position she served in sales positions in AmericasMart’s publishing and media group.
A native Texan, Barlar was raised in Houston and San Antonio. She graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches.
