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Urban Expositions Cancels Material World
Urban Expositions canceled the Miami Beach, Fla., and Los Angeles editions of Material World, a 10-year-old show for the textile industry.
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Diversified Launches Seafood Show In Hong Kong
Diversified Business Communications will launch the Asian Seafood Exposition Sept. 7-9 in Hong Kong. The new event will be held in conjunction with another Diversified event, Restaurant & Bar Hong Kong, a trade show for the hospitality sector.
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IMEX Set to Launch U.S. Version in 2011
Representatives from Meeting Professionals Intl., IMEX and the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority announced the launch of a U.S. version of the IMEX show in 2011. The event will be held at the Sands Expo & Convention Center Oct. 11-13 and will be called IMEX America.
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Viad Q3 Revenues Drop 40 Percent
Viad, the parent company of GES Exposition Services, reported Q3 revenues of $181.1 million, down from $302.3 million in the same period last year, a 40.1-percent decrease. GES' revenue was down to $106.6 million from $203.3 million in the same period last year, a 47.6-percent decrease.
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Golf Industry Show to Go to Las Vegas in 2012
The Golf Industry Show will move to Las Vegas Feb. 29-March 1, 2012, according to six association show partners that put on the event.
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Philadelphia CVB Gets New Head in 2011
Jack Ferguson, executive vice president of the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau, will replace Tom Muldoon as president and CEO in 2011, according to the executive committee of the board of directors of the bureau.
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IAEE's Expo! Expo! Heads to Houston in 2013
The Intl. Assn. of Exhibitions and Events has chosen Houston as the host city for its Expo! Expo! IAEE's Annual Meeting & Exhibition in 2013.
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NATPE Moves From Vegas to Miami in 2011
In 2011, the Natl. Assn. of Television Programming Executives' show announced it would move from its home of several years in Las Vegas to the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla., according to NATPE's CEO Rick Feldman.
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SMOTY Winners Named
The Expo Group's 10th annual Show Manager of the Year Award recipients have been announced.
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UBM Asia to Market Istanbul Jewelry Show
UBM Asia has signed an agreement with Rotaforte Fair Company, owner of the Istanbul Jewelry Show, to promote the semiannual show, whose next edition will take place March 13-17 in Istanbul.
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GSCs File Labor Complaints
Freeman and GES Exposition Services have filed complaints with the Natl. Labor Relations Board related to the exclusive labor situation at San Jose, Calif.'s McEnery Convention Center.
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Angus Wins IAEE Pinnacle Award
Sandy Angus will receive the Intl. Assn. of Exhibitions and Events' Pinnacle Award during Expo! Expo! IAEE's Annual Meeting & Exhibition Dec. 8-10 in Atlanta.
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Questex Media Files Chapter 11
Questex Media Group Holdings, which owns two shows on the 2009 Tradeshow Week 200 – Intl. Esthetics, Cosmetics & Spa Conference Las Vegas and Intl. Beauty Show New York – has filed for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
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Canon Buys Trifecta of Shows
Canon Communications acquired Plast-Ex and Expoplast, the leading plastics tradeshows in Canada, from the Canadian Plastics Industry Assn.
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Mandalay Lures Walker From Sands
Steve Walker, director of sales for the Sands Expo & Convention Center, will leave his position to take a similar role as executive director of sales at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, according to Mandalay Bay officials.
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TS² Shifts Next Year's Schedule
Next year's TS² tradeshow in Boston will take place one day later in the week than usual and its conference program will be reduced from four days to three.
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Pederson This Year’s TSW Fastest 50 Honoree
Margaret Pederson, president of Amirexx and a veteran tradeshow organizer, will be honored for her tremendous contribution to the tradeshow industry during the Tradeshow Week Fastest 50 event Nov. 13-15 in Houston.
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BIO Intl. Changes Places in 2012
The Biotechnology Industry Organization has announced BIO Intl. will take place in Boston in 2012, rather than in Las Vegas as originally planned. According to BIO officials, the biotech show was counting on meeting space that would have been completed at the Las Vegas Convention Center by then.
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Chicago's MPEA Cuts 100 Electricians
The Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority let go 100 electricians that service tradeshows at Chicago's McCormick Place and the Navy Pier, cutting the workforce down to 50 electricians.
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Messe Frankfurt Buys Taiwan-based A&S Group
Messe Frankfurt has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority interest in A&S Group, a Taiwan-based security industry tradeshow organizer and integrated media-service provider.
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Reno Ropes in Three Large Association Shows
Nevada's Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority announced it will host not one, not two, but three significant events starting in 2012, and, in at least one case, five more years after that.
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IAEE's Expo! Expo! Headed to Houston in 2013
The Intl. Assn. of Exhibitions and Events has chosen Houston for the site of its Expo! Expo! IAEE's Annual Meeting & Exhibition in 2013. The event will be held Dec. 10-12 at the George R. Brown Convention Center, and the Hilton of the Americas will be the headquarters hotel.
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NY Gift Fair to Get a Bit Speedier
Things will move a little faster at the New York Intl. Gift Fair in February when the Gift and Home Trade Assn. hosts a session called “Speed Networking & Sourcing with the Gift and Home Trade Assn.” The Feb. 1 session will focus on industry innovation and change at the show scheduled Jan. 30-Feb. 4 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of New York.
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CIC Rolls Out Global Exam Day
The Convention Industry Council announced it will hold the inaugural Certified Meeting Professional Global Exam Day Feb. 20 in five sites outside of North America: Cancun, Mexico, alongside Meeting Professional Intl.'s MeetDifferent; South Korea; Singapore; South Africa; and Italy.
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Launch of Medical Device Show Set for Hong Kong
The latest news from the global exhibition industry, while still containing what’s become a familiar litany of show postponements and cancellations, is somewhat leavened by announcements of a handful of show launches, offering some optimism.
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People on the Move
Among those on the move, Global Sources appointed Spenser Au deputy CEO, Jack Chalden joined industry consulting organization The Augusta Group as an associate and the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission hired Nicholas A. Langella as senior vice president and general manager of America’s Center.
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New Business Contracts
The Travel South USA Board of Directors selected Atlanta as the site for the April 3-5, 2011, Travel South Showcase. The Intl. Astronomical Union chose Honolulu’s Hawai’i Convention Center for its triennial General Assembly, which includes an exhibition, to be held Aug. 3-14, 2015.
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Openings
The Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau established an office in Shanghai, China, as an integrated service center to coordinate and communicate with trade associations, exhibition organizers and agencies in Shanghai, Beijing and other Chinese cities.
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Show Launches
Reed Travel Exhibitions’ inaugural Americas Incentive Business Travel & Meetings Exhibition will debut June 21-23, 2011, in Baltimore. It was postponed a year after originally being scheduled June 29-July 1, also in Baltimore.
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Registration Roundup
The Assn. of Equipment Managers’ biennial ICUEE attracted more than 16,500 registered attendees Oct. 6-8 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, Ky., making it the second-largest ICUEE in show history.The debut of Koelnmesse’s GamesCom, an exhibition for interactive entertainment and games, attracted 245,000 attendees to the Cologne Intl. Expo Centre in Germany Aug. 19-23.
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10th Annual SMOTY Winners Named
The Expo Group Show Manager of the Year Awards will honor five winners at its 10th annual evening celebration Nov. 12 in Houston, the night before the opening of Tradeshow Week’s Fastest 50 event. Those receiving awards are being recognized for demonstrating innovative practices, a strong customer service philosophy, a commitment to success and an ability to overcome obstacles.
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Washington Convention and Sports Authority Makes Its Debut
A merger in late September between the Washington Convention Center Authority and the DC Sports and Entertainment Commission shifted ownership and management of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center to the new Washington (D.C.) Convention and Sports Authority.
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CEIR Study: Find a Way Around Generation Gap
Young people – that is, those under the age of 40 – are open to the idea of attending exhibitions, but they are a bit more discriminating about them than their elders. That is the verdict of a new 41-page study from the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, “Power of Exhibitions in the 21st Century: Identify, Discover and Embrace Change From the Young Professionals’ Point of View."
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Columbus and Toronto to Both Get New Anchor Hotels
Columbus, Ohio, now has an operator for its convention center headquarters hotel, and Toronto's Exhibition Place is looking to open more rooms in its vicinity.
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IAEE Pinnacle Award Goes to Angus
The Intl. Assn. of Exhibitions and Events named Sandy Angus, chairman of Montgomery Worldwide, this year’s recipient of its highest honor, the Pinnacle Award. The Pinnacle Award annually is given to the individual who has done the most to further IAEE’s objectives of advancing exhibitions and events.
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SmartSource Buys Rentsys
SmartSource Computer & Audio Visual Rentals, based in Hauppauge, N.Y., recently acquired the Rentsys computer and audiovisual rental division from College Station, Texas-based Dealer Computer Services.
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NLRB Complaints Filed in San Jose
An exclusive labor policy at San Jose, Calif.'s McEnery Convention Center led Freeman and GES Exposition Services to file complaints with the Natl. Labor Relations Board against Team San Jose and two local labor unions.
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Two German Messes Collocate Indian Shows
Exhibition cancellations and postponements have become a familiar fact of life in the news from the global tradeshow industry. As well, shows are being renamed, refocused and collocated all the time. But there’s still a smattering of show launches in the latest exhibition news from the Ukraine, England, Germany, Morocco, India, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Austria, Italy and China.
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People on the Move
People on the move in Germany, South Africa and the United States, among other countries.
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New Business Contracts
New business contracts
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Urban Expositions Cancels Material World
Urban Expositions canceled the Miami Beach, Fla., and Los Angeles editions of Material World, a 10-year-old show for the textile industry.
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Diversified Launches Seafood Show In Hong Kong
Diversified Business Communications will launch the Asian Seafood Exposition Sept. 7-9 in Hong Kong. The new event will be held in conjunction with another Diversified event, Restaurant & Bar Hong Kong, a trade show for the hospitality sector.
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IMEX Set to Launch U.S. Version in 2011
Representatives from Meeting Professionals Intl., IMEX and the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority announced the launch of a U.S. version of the IMEX show in 2011. The event will be held at the Sands Expo & Convention Center Oct. 11-13 and will be called IMEX America.
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Viad Q3 Revenues Drop 40 Percent
Viad, the parent company of GES Exposition Services, reported Q3 revenues of $181.1 million, down from $302.3 million in the same period last year, a 40.1-percent decrease. GES' revenue was down to $106.6 million from $203.3 million in the same period last year, a 47.6-percent decrease.
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Golf Industry Show to Go to Las Vegas in 2012
The Golf Industry Show will move to Las Vegas Feb. 29-March 1, 2012, according to six association show partners that put on the event.
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Philadelphia CVB Gets New Head in 2011
Jack Ferguson, executive vice president of the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau, will replace Tom Muldoon as president and CEO in 2011, according to the executive committee of the board of directors of the bureau.
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IAEE's Expo! Expo! Heads to Houston in 2013
The Intl. Assn. of Exhibitions and Events has chosen Houston as the host city for its Expo! Expo! IAEE's Annual Meeting & Exhibition in 2013.
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NATPE Moves From Vegas to Miami in 2011
In 2011, the Natl. Assn. of Television Programming Executives' show announced it would move from its home of several years in Las Vegas to the Fountainbleau Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla., according to NATPE's CEO Rick Feldman.
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SMOTY Winners Named
The Expo Group's 10th annual Show Manager of the Year Award recipients have been announced.
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UBM Asia to Market Istanbul Jewelry Show
UBM Asia has signed an agreement with Rotaforte Fair Company, owner of the Istanbul Jewelry Show, to promote the semiannual show, whose next edition will take place March 13-17 in Istanbul.
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GSCs File Labor Complaints
Freeman and GES Exposition Services have filed complaints with the Natl. Labor Relations Board related to the exclusive labor situation at San Jose, Calif.'s McEnery Convention Center.
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Angus Wins IAEE Pinnacle Award
Sandy Angus will receive the Intl. Assn. of Exhibitions and Events' Pinnacle Award during Expo! Expo! IAEE's Annual Meeting & Exhibition Dec. 8-10 in Atlanta.
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Questex Media Files Chapter 11
Questex Media Group Holdings, which owns two shows on the 2009 Tradeshow Week 200 – Intl. Esthetics, Cosmetics & Spa Conference Las Vegas and Intl. Beauty Show New York – has filed for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
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Canon Buys Trifecta of Shows
Canon Communications acquired Plast-Ex and Expoplast, the leading plastics tradeshows in Canada, from the Canadian Plastics Industry Assn.
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Mandalay Lures Walker From Sands
Steve Walker, director of sales for the Sands Expo & Convention Center, will leave his position to take a similar role as executive director of sales at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, according to Mandalay Bay officials.
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TS² Shifts Next Year's Schedule
Next year's TS² tradeshow in Boston will take place one day later in the week than usual and its conference program will be reduced from four days to three.
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Pederson This Year’s TSW Fastest 50 Honoree
Margaret Pederson, president of Amirexx and a veteran tradeshow organizer, will be honored for her tremendous contribution to the tradeshow industry during the Tradeshow Week Fastest 50 event Nov. 13-15 in Houston.
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BIO Intl. Changes Places in 2012
The Biotechnology Industry Organization has announced BIO Intl. will take place in Boston in 2012, rather than in Las Vegas as originally planned. According to BIO officials, the biotech show was counting on meeting space that would have been completed at the Las Vegas Convention Center by then.
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Chicago's MPEA Cuts 100 Electricians
The Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority let go 100 electricians that service tradeshows at Chicago's McCormick Place and the Navy Pier, cutting the workforce down to 50 electricians.
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Messe Frankfurt Buys Taiwan-based A&S Group
Messe Frankfurt has entered into an agreement to acquire a majority interest in A&S Group, a Taiwan-based security industry tradeshow organizer and integrated media-service provider.
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