Cost Plus World Market Announces Winner Of Its Spring 2011 Friends & Family Sweepstakes

OAKLAND, Calif. (April 15, 2011) – Cost Plus World Market (www.worldmarket.com) celebrated its spring Friends & Family event with a sweepstakes, which ran from March 19 through March 27, 2011. World Market customers were invited to enter online for a chance to win a $5,000 World Market gift card for themselves and an additional $5,000 World Market gift card for a friend.

Congratulations to Carol Dunahoo of Rogers, AR who is the grand prizewinner of a $5,000 World Market gift card, and her lucky friend Sherrie Calder of Westfork, AR will also be receiving a $5,000 World Market gift card. The two became friends while working together training search and rescue dogs. Upon hearing of her win, Carol replied, “Oh my goodness, this is so exciting! We are going on a shopping spree! My 90-year-old mother is as excited about this wonderful gift as I am. She’s even started a list for herself, but then said, ‘These items are for me only after you pick out what you’d like!’”

In addition, every day during the run of the promotion, World Market awarded one sweepstakes entrant and their friend each a $100 World Market gift card.

And, with spring officially here, World Market has a wide assortment of outdoor entertaining options from affordable outdoor dining furniture and occasional seating to plates, glassware, serveware, and gourmet food and wine. Since 1958, specialty retailer World Market has been the shopping destination for gift giving, home décor, furniture, unique jewelry and accessories, and gourmet food and wine.

For information about World Market, please go to www.worldmarket.com. Keep up with World Market by following us on www.facebook.com/worldmarket and www.twitter.com/worldmarket.

About Cost Plus World Market
Cost Plus World Market operates 259 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 imported from more than 50 countries. Many items are unique and exclusive to World Market and are regularly supplied by an international network of individual and regional artisans developed over the Company’s more than 50 years in the import business.

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Cost Plus World Market
510.808.9319
jill.osaka@cpwm.com