Cost Plus and HGTV Partner on "The Antonio Treatment" Sweepstakes For A Chance To Win A $10,000 World Market Gift Card
HGTV Design Star Season 4 Champion and “Bad Boy of Design” Antonio Ballatore
to provide personal design consultation
(OAKLAND, CA; May 1, 2010) — Cost Plus World Market (www.worldmarket.com) and HGTV (www.hgtv.com) are inviting fans to enter to win a $10,000 World Market gift card in “The Antonio Treatment Sweepstakes.” The grand prize also includes a personal design consultation with HGTV Design Star Season 4 winner Antonio Ballatore, who will provide customized sketches for a one-room focused makeover. In addition, Antonio and the winner will shop their local World Market store to select product ranging from living and dining furniture, decorative accessories, textiles, and more. Beginning May 1 through June 12, 2010, customers may enter online at www.worldmarket.com or at any World Market store location.
Dubbed the “Bad Boy of Design” by the Design Star judges because of his edgy, unconventional, rocker-chic style, Antonio Ballatore started his career in design while pursuing his dream of music stardom. In between music gigs, he learned how to build houses, which led him to design restaurants and clubs in Manhattan and later, design sets for world-famous photographers, including Annie Leibovitz and David LaChapelle.
Antonio’s show, “The Antonio Project” debuted in March 2010 with a very personal challenge: a five-day, tight budget renovation of his own home. And, with his talent of transforming a lackluster space into radically original, yet functional creations he’s proven up to his statement that he’s “bigger, badder, and bolder” than any other Design Star.
Follow World Market on www.facebook.com/worldmarket and www.twitter.com/worldmarket. Join World Market’s customer rewards program at www.worldmarketexplorer.com. Full details about the sweepstakes can be found in stores or online at www.worldmarket.com.
About HGTV
HGTV, America’s leader in home and lifestyle programming, is distributed to more than 98 million U.S. households and is one of cable’s top-rated networks. HGTV’s website, HGTV.com, is the nation’s leading online home-and-garden destination, which attracts an average of more than 4 million unique visitors per month.
About Cost Plus World Market
Cost Plus World Market operates 263 stores in 30 states under the names “World Market” and “Cost Plus World Market.” The store features an ever-changing selection of casual home furnishings, housewares, gifts, jewelry, decorative accessories, over 500 international wines, gourmet foods and beverages offered at affordable prices and are imported from more than 50 countries. Many items are unique and exclusive to World Market regularly supplied by an international network of individual and regional artisans developed over the Company’s 50+ years in the import business.
Media Relations:
Jill Osaka
Cost Plus World Market
510.808.9319
jill.osaka@cpwm.com