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EACA Showfloor Buzz
Vol. 11, Issue 36, September 17, 2008
EACA NEWS
ARMA ’08 Show Kit Letter
Misunderstanding. The welcome letter in the
ARMA ’08 show kit warns its exhibitors to “beware of
non-official contractors”. Evidently this show
has experienced a number of occasions where its exhbitors were
taken advantage of by less than scrupulous service companies.
EACA inquired about this letter and got the following response
from show management.
“…My comments were never directed at an EAC offering
I&D services but at the organizations that contact ARMA
vendors for show-site services. I can give a long list of clients
who have been taken advantage of by Fair Guide, Expo Guide,
carpeting/flooring companies, cleaning vendors and housing
reservation companies. When ARMA vendors have issues with these
types of contractors, they turn to ARMA. In due diligence, it is
my responsibility to warn them of unscrupulous organizations.
ARMA does not take issue with any EAC offering reputable
services. These organizations make my job easier as a show
organizer…”
Elizabeth Zlitni
Exposition Manager
ARMA International
Please Support the RSMGC 2008 Recipients!
The 2008 Randy Smith
Memorial Golf Classic, which will take place at Chateau Elan on
October 24, 2008 in Braselton, GA (outside of Atlanta), has
announced its recipients for 2008. They are:
•
Jim
Dock, Expotechnik, Taylor Mfg., I&D, Heritage
Communications
•
Keri
Mincy, daughter of Ron Mincy of The Design Agency
•
Jeff
Gates, PRG Hi-Tech Rentals
•
Jim
Vrzal, Skyline Atlanta, GES
•
James
Wetherington, Optima Graphics
•
Bonnie
DiStasio, Champion Logistics Group
-Honored at the 2008 Boston
RSMGC event “Rally at the Alley”
•
Richard
Cornett, Zenith LaborNet
-Honored at the 2008
Atlanta RSMGC event “Get Out of the Gutter”
•
Mike
Skutor, The TERM Group
-Honored at the 2008
Chicago RSMGC event “The Chicago Randy”
Please note that there
will be no printed brochure this
year. Feel free to use the Golf Registration Form,
or the Tennis Registration
Form which are attached here.
For more information about the 2008 recipients, and how you can
participate in or support this year’s event visit the RSMGC
web site at www.rsmgc.com.
EACA to
Participate at IAAM’s International Convention Center
Conference. Jim Wurm, Executive
Director of the EACA, will participate in a panel discussion at
IAAM’s Int’l Convention Center Conference in
Portland, OR on September 26, 2008 at the Hilton Portland &
Executive Tower
New Developments in the Tradeshow
Workforce is a panel discussion that will be
moderated by Steve Schwartz of the Washington Convention Center
which will contain discussions on a wide variety of operations
issues. Joining Jim and Steve on the panel will be Randy
Eppard, Ph.d., EACA Customer Service Training program; Larry
Arnaudet, ESCA; Joe Sangregorio, GES; and Ken Viscovich,
UBC.
Topics of discussion will include customer service training for
workers, contractor and worker access and credentialing issues,
and drug testing,
CHAPTER NEWS
Chicago Chapter News
Chicago Chapter Meeting
The Chicago Chapter of the EACA will host a meeting at
McCormick Place for all members on Monday, October 27 at 10am in
Rm E153. This is your chance to
share your thoughts, concerns, and ideas with your EAC colleagues
on what the EACA and the Chicago Chapter can do to make trade
shows in Chicago better than ever!
A continental breakfast will be provided, courtesy of the EACA
Chicago Chapter.
Las Vegas
Chapter News
EACA Customer Service Training
Announcement
The EACA is pleased to announce that
its Customer Service Training program will be delivered in Las
Vegas on December 15-16, 2008 at the LVCVA in Room S219.
All EACA members in Las Vegas are encouraged to mark their
calendars to take advantage of this opportunity. Additional
information will be made available in future issues of the
Showfloor Buzz.
Orlando
Chapter News
OCCC Reminder
The Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) has
implemented a new Contractor Security Program for all contractors
that work there. The new program will allow the OCCC to
consolidate contractor information, to better track required
documentation, and to directly communicate with all of its
approved contractors. The further intention of this
program is to help improve the overall security of the convention
center and its guests.
The EACA has been retained by the OCCC to administer this
program and to maintain an online database of registered
companies.
If you have yet to register for the OCCC program, and intend to
work in the facility during the next year, please do so
immediately, and use the OCCC Contractor Security Agreement
form.
INDUSTRY NEWS
J. Spargo Takes Over HSMAI's Affordable
Meetings <Tradeshow
Week>
The Hospitality and Sales Marketing Assn. Intl. named J. Spargo
& Associates to take over management of HSMAI Affordable
Meetings Mid-America, West and Natl. from George Little
Management, a dmg world media business.
Hurricane Ike slams Galveston, spares
Houston <M&C Midweek
News> Hurricane Ike, which hit the Texas coast as a
category 2 storm on Saturday, has shut down Galveston, prompting
the Houston Chronicle to call it a "ruined city." Among
the area's top properties, the 428-room Moody Gardens Hotel, Spa
and Convention Center is scheduled to reopen Sept. 21. The
226-room Hotel Galvez and the 119-room Tremont House, both
Wyndham Historic Hotels, are closed indefinitely. The 239-room
Hilton Galveston Island Resort also is closed until further
notice.
In nearby Houston, the damage was not as dramatic, but several
events at the George R. Brown Convention Center have been
rescheduled, including this weekend's Theta Antiques Charity Show
and Houston Antique Deals, while the facility is used as a
temporary staging area for relief teams. Also, all
events at the city's Reliant Park facilities -- Reliant Stadium,
Reliant Center, Reliant Arena and Reliant Astrodome -- have been
canceled through Sept. 21.
Global Spectrum to manage Miami Beach
Convention Center <Expo Web
News> Global Spectrum, a
Philadelphia-based facility management company, has been awarded
the contract to manage the Miami Beach Convention Center. Global
Spectrum plans to partner with Switzerland-based Messe Schweiz,
parent company of Art Basel Miami Beach — an annual event
held in the building, to bring new international events to the
facility.
Philadelphia-based venue management company SMG previously
managed the center for the past 17 years.
Global Spectrum is a subsidiary of Philadelphia-based sports and
entertainment group Comcast-Spectator.
THOUGHT FOR THE
WEEK
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness, and
cynicism is the madness of wisdom.
-- Bergen Evans, American lexicographer
(1904-1978)
Publisher's
statement. The Showfloor Buzz is
a publication of the Exhibitor Appointed Contractor Association
(EACA) which is dedicated to "raising the level of service
excellence on the showfloor."
This publication is sent free of charge to all EACA members each
Wednesday, and to non-members four weeks later.
Annual subscriptions to current issues of the Buzz
are available to non-members for $49.95. Please
send subscription requests to jimwurm@eaca.com.
EACA members are also permitted to submit job postings to the
Buzz free of charge for a one time listing. Member
job postings can be extended for additional weeks in the Buzz as
well as posted to the EACA web site. The costs
for extending your job posting are one month for $50, 2 months
for $85, and 3 months for $125.
If you have news from the tradeshow floor that you feel is
important to the success of our members, or our industry's
customer, the exhibitors, please forward it to the EACA @
541-317-8768 or email us @ jimwurm@eaca.com
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