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Abu Dhabi Venue Company Buys ExCel London Abu Dhabi Natl. Exhibitions Company, a venue company based in the United Arab Emirates, has acquired control of ExCel London.
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Three Textile Shows Unite in Atlanta The collocation of three shows – ATME-I/MegaTex, SPESA Expo and Techtexil North America – will launch the Textile & Sewn Industry Week 2010 in Atlanta, according to the shows' organizers.
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Walker Steps Down as head of Washington CC Reba Pittman Walker will step down as general manager and CEO of the Washington (D.C.) Convention Center Authority, which oversees the center, for "personal reasons," according to the authority.
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Tompkins Takes Over Reins at Interbike Andy Tompkins has been appointed show director of the Interbike Intl. Bicycling Expo, replacing Lance Camisasca, who will continue to manage Interbike's bicycle advocacy efforts.
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Wynn Planning Vegas' Fourth Major Exhibit Hall Casino Developer Stephen A. Wynn of Wynn Resorts is planning to build an exhibit hall in Las Vegas of 1.6 to 1.8 million square feet, "depending how you count it," he said Thursday in a conference call to discuss the company's first-quarter earnings.
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PennWell Buys Avionics PennWell Corp. has acquired Avionics Expo, a U.K.-based company that organizes Avionics, an aerospace electronics show held each March in Amsterdam. PennWell already owns Military & Aerospace Forum, last held March 11-12 in San Diego.
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Hanley Wood Buys Facility Managers Show Hanley Wood Exhibitions acquired The TFM Show, for senior facility management executives, from Group C Communications for an undisclosed sum.
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Jeff Pulver Resigns From Pulvermedia Jeff Pulver, who founded pulvermedia, announced in a blog posting on www.pulverblog.com that he was resigning from the company that bears his name.
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Boyd Gaming Reports $32.6 Million Loss Boyd Gaming reported a first-quarter net income loss of $32.6 million and revenue was $471.1 million, a nearly 9-percent decrease compared to the same period in 2007.
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Viad First-quarter Earnings Up Viad, GES Exposition Services' parent company, had a positive first quarter with net income of $16.7 million, compared with $14 million in the same period of 2007.
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TSEA Names New Executive Director Margit B. Weisgal has been named executive director of the Trade Show Exhibitors Assn. and current TSEA President Stephen Schuldenfrei has announced his retirement. Weisgal has been with exhibitor training consulting firm Sextant Communications for almost 20 years and in 2007 received TSEA's Distinguished Service Award.
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Major Exhibit Space Expansion in New York Vornado Realty Trust and its subsidiary, Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., will spend $100 million to renovate Piers 92 and 94 on New York's West Side. When completed, the project will add 215,000 square feet of exhibit space to the 140,000 sq. ft. already on Pier 94.
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Tennant in as Meet Minneapolis CEO Melvin Tennant has been named president and CEO of Meet Minneapolis, that city's convention and visitors association.
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Freeman Names New CEO Freeman named Joe Popolo CEO to succeed Donald Freeman Jr. Freeman will remain chairman. Carrie Freeman Parsons became vice chairwoman, in addition to being chief marketing officer. John O'Connell was promoted from executive vice president and COO to president. Jeff Price was promoted from executive vice president to COO of the exposition services division. The changes will be effective July 1.
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Reed Expo Buys Marine Science Show Reed Exhibitions has acquired the Middle East Ocean Science & Technology Expo from Turret Middle East.
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ALA Heads Back to New Orleans, Twice The American Library Assn. will go to New Orleans for its 2011 and 2018 annual conventions.
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New North American Pavilion at Newcast 2009 For the first time, Messe Duesseldorf's Newcast, held June 23-25, 2009, will have a pavilion for metalcasters from the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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Gaylord Drops Bid for San Antonio Resort Four months after Gaylord Entertainment announced its acquisition of the Westin La Cantera Resort in San Antonio, the company terminated the agreement. Colin V. Reed, Gaylord's chairman and CEO, cited unfavorable conditions in the current capital markets and economic environment as reasons for dropping the project.
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St. Louis Bureau, Unions Resolve Labor Dispute Members of three audiovisual unions and the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission have reached an agreement over work rules at America's Center after a nearly three week dispute.
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SPI Awards Freeman NPE Contract The Society of the Plastics Industry signed an agreement awarding Freeman the contract for NPE - The Intl. Plastic Showcase in 2009. A triennial event, NPE, ranked No. 12 on the 2007 TSW 200, will take place June 22-26, 2009, at Chicago's McCormick Place.
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Defining Green: What's Hype? What's Real? The tradeshow industry may be evolving in an environmentally responsible direction, but at this stage, when anyone can claim their show is green, one question persists: What really is green anyway? For anyone interested in sustainability, the concept of what constitutes a green show, product or service, and how this can be measured is a confusing one – until now.
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Industry Prepares for SISO, ECEF The exhibition-industry conference season gets underway shortly with the annual SISO CEO Summit scheduled to begin April 6 at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort in St. Petersburg, Fla. The theme of this year's Summit is Strategies, Trends & Fundamentals.
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Web 2.0 Expo Heads to New York CMP and O'Reilly Media, co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco and Web 2.0 Summit, will launch Web 2.0 Expo New York Sept. 16-19 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of New York. The organizers introduced the Web 2.0 Expo brand last April in San Francisco as an annual gathering of technical, design, marketing and business professionals working in the world of Web 2.
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Foreign Expansion: Keep It Local Associations listen more and more to membership demands to find new markets for their products and services. In response, many based in North America are stretching overseas with conferences, conventions and tradeshows.
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Educational Sessions: A Different Experience A typical conference session looks something like this: A speaker stands behind a podium at the front of a room, faces the audience and uses a power point presentation for visual demonstrations. After 45 minutes to an hour, the speaker takes questions from the audience.
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HCEA Plans '08 Marketing Summit The Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Assn. will hold its annual HCEA Healthcare Convention Marketing Summit Jan. 24 at the Hartford Marriott Downtown in Hartford, Conn.
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Conference Sessions: Going Online to Stay Alive To keep their events in the front of attendees' minds, some organizers are putting their shows' educational content online. At first glance, that might seem not just counterintuitive, but self-destructive. Certainly, some show managers still fear that offering educational information on the Internet may steer audiences away from conferences at tradeshows.
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TriStar Publishes for Associations TriStar Publishing is trying to make tradeshows a little easier for its clients. The company focuses on event publications for professional associations and turns them into non-dues revenue. "We have positioned ourself in the marketplace as a medical publisher," said Robin Boss, COO at TriStar.
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Reed Medical Reels in Mass General Reed Exhibitions and Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy have made a 25-year agreement to co-produce the Boston health care facility's extensive series of continuing medical education programs. According to the agreement, Reed Medical Education will handle audience development, marketing and logistics, while Mass General will identify the educational needs of the psychiatry commun...
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Medical Tourism to Be Topic of Conference The second annual Intl. Medical Tourism Conference will be held in conjunction with Consumer Health World Dec. 3-5 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Washington, D.C.
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MPI's PEC-Europe Gets a New Name Meeting Professionals Intl. will organize the European Meetings & Events Conference April 18-20 at ExCel London.
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Canon Buys B-to-B in Pharma Sector Canon Communications has acquired Engel Publishing Partners, a business-to-business firm that primarily serves the pharmaceutical sector, from Euromoney Institutional Investor.
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CEO Qualities: Who Will Rise to the Top? The Society of Independent Show Organizers has two main meetings: one in the spring for CEOs, and another in the summer for senior executives. It was thinking about the difference between the two meetings that gave Tradeshow Week editors the idea for this and the other stories that follow in our special section for SISO's Executive Conference at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers.
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We Take Leadership Seriously As you know by now, since you've leafed through this issue of Tradeshow Week and finally gotten to the last page, we hoped to provoke a little discussion on the subject of leadership and who might be part of the next generation of chief executives to provide direction in the tradeshow industry.
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Canon, Electronics Group Sign Agreement The Surface Mount Technology Assn. has agreed to endorse Electronics West, one of six tradeshows owned by Canon Communications that collocate at the Anaheim Convention Center Jan. 28-31.
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AIME Launches Environmental Initiatives The Asia Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo, scheduled Feb. 19-20 at the Melbourne (Australia) Exhibition Centre, will include a number of programs intended to set a new benchmark for exhibitions in Australia.
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Former GOP Senate Leader Speaks to Drug Store Meeting r. William "Bill" Frist, former Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee and Senate majority leader from 2003 to 2007, will speak at the Natl. Assn. of Chain Drug Stores Pharmacy & Technology Conference Aug. 11 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
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ABA Commits to Boston in 2014
The American Bar Assn. Expo will be held at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston Aug. 7-14, 2014.
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HCEA Debuts List of Bellwether Events The Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Assn. has inaugurated its HCEA 100, a list of health care events that it calls the most significant in the industry. "The impetus was to see what the leading conventions are telling us about our business," said Frank Skinner, HCEA market research analyst.
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Tarsus Launches Anti-aging Show in Germany A subsidiary of Tarsus Group, Medical Conferences Intl., will launch an as yet-unnamed exhibition and conference focusing on anti-aging Sept. 11-14, 2008, in Duesseldorf, Germany.
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