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EACA Showfloor
Buzz
Vol. 11, Issue 29, July 23, 2008
EACA NEWS
Still Time to Register for our 10th Annual Conference!
The EACA is hosting its 10th Annual
Conference in Philadelphia, PA on July 28-29, 2008, in
conjunction with TS2. This year’s event will
place a special focus on the EACA’s 10th
Anniversary. EACA members are invited
to come together to celebrate this milestone as we review the
accomplishments of the past ten years and begin to chart our
course for the next ten. Please send in your registration
by the end of business Thursday, July 24
The EACA 10th Anniversary Conference
information contains complete descriptions of all
sessions and events. In addition, the
EACA Conference Registration
form and Sponsor
form has complete information for participating in
this year’s event. If you have
difficulty accessing any of this information please send an email
to jimwurm@eaca.com.
And, as always, your EACA Conference badge grants
you access to the TS2 Exhibits!
Thanks to our Annual
Conference Sponsors. The EACA
Annual Conference will take place on July 28-29, 2008 at the
Pennsylvaniz Convention Center in Philadekphia, PA.
Conference materials have recently been circulated to EACA
members, and are also available on the EACA web site.
Please be sure to make your plans to
attend!
The EACA would like to thank and recognize our Annual Conference
Sponsors to date:
Presenting Sponsor
UBC Metropolitan Regional Council
Platinum Sponsor
Freeman
Gold Sponsor
Eagle Management
ExpoServices USA
On Location
Silver Sponsors
CORT Tradeshow Furnishings
Employco Services
MC2
Renaissance Management
Spectrum Show Services
The TERM Group
College of
Cardiology Offer Advanced EAC Registration. The College of Cardiology is once again
offering “pre-approved” status to all EACs that have
serviced exhibitors at their show in the past.
Pre-approved EAC status for ACC.09 (Orlando, Expo dates: March
29-31, 2009), are available provided EACs complete and return the
show provided form and submit your certificate of liability
insurance by August 22, 2008.
As an additional benefit of complying with this process, EACs
who attain pre-approved status for ACC.09, will be listed on the
exhibitor tools section of the show web site once it goes live
this December, and the College of Cardiology exhibitors will be
able to select their EACs online without having to fill in
forms.
Kudos to Kent Riffert and everyone at
ACC for this forward thinking process!!
Showfloor Buzz on Hiatus Next
Week. There will be no Showfloor Buzz next
week during the EACA 10th Annual Conference.
Look for your next issue of the Showfloor Buzz on August 6 when
we’ll recap all the happenings at our Annual Conference and
TS2!
EACA PEOPLE IN THE
NEWS
Olympic rookie Shannon Rowbury,
daughter of 20-year Nth Degree veteran Gary
Rowbury,will look to make her Olympic debut for the
United States this summer in Beijing. She hopes to
contend for a medal in the women's 1500m. Rowbury has
overcome injury to establish herself as one of the premier women
milers in the country. Gary and his wife Paula
will be heading from San Francisco to Beijing to watch Shannon
compete.
Hip hurting
After winning indoor nationals in the 1500m her senior
year at Duke, Rowbury began experiencing pain in her left hip.
What was at first believed to be nothing more than tendonitis by
school trainers was diagnosed in April 2007 to be a stress
fracture. "That was a very low point for me," Rowbury said. "In
late June, I started running on an alter-gravity treadmill that
allowed me to start getting back into training. By July, I was
running on the ground again. Since then, it's been just a slow
and steady build up of mileage and workouts."
Back in a big way
Rowbury made quite a splash in her return to
competition, winning the U..S. Indoor Championships in the 3000m,
the first of her career. "It was one of those things that I knew
going into the race that I had an opportunity to win," Rowbury
said. "My training had been going really well and the3K is a
really great event for me. Regardless of what happened, the fact
that I was out there running again and racing again less than a
year after my diagnosis would have been awesome. But winning was
a storybook way to come back into it so I felt very
fortunate."
The EACA wishes Shannon great success in Beijing . We will
be rooting for her to “get on the podium” in
Beijing.
CHAPTER NEWS
Chicago Chapter News
McCormick
Place No Smoking Policy
The Buzz
has recently been notified by the MPEA
that there has been a significant increase in violations of the
No Smoking Policy at McCormick Place recently. I am
reminding all our members in Chicago to pass the word on to all
your employees that this policy is to be strictly adhered to
– and that violators will be ticketed, or dismissed
from the building, or both.
Please do your best to pass the word
on to all your people and let them know that if they are lighting
up victory cigars over the most recent Cubs win – to do it
outside the building!
Your cooperation is greatly
appreciated.
6th Annual Golf Outing to
Benefit RSMGC
The Chicago Chapters of the EACA and EDPA announced the
dates for their 6th Annual Golf Outing to benefit the RSMGC.
This scramble golf event will take place at Maple Meadows Golf
Club in Wood Dale, IL on Monday, August 4, 2008
with a 1pm shotgun start. Golf will
be followed by a dinner reception with raffle prizes.
For additional information on the 2008
EACA/EDPA Chicago golf outing contact Nancy Virene at
njvirene@thetermgroup.com.
INDUSTRY NEWS
Global Spectrum Gets First OK in Miami
Beach <Tradeshow Week> The
City of Miami Beach Commission gave preliminary approval to
Global Spectrum to operate the Miami Beach Convention Center in
conjunction with Messe Schweiz, which organizes Art Basel
Miami Beach. SMG, manager of the venue for the past 17
years, also bid on the contract.
French resigns as CEO of Penton
<Expo Web News> John
French, CEO of Penton Media
announced in a memo to the company's employees that he's
resigning his post. The move comes a week after the company laid
off 42 employees. Hiring and salary freezes were implemented
earlier this year.
Bludworth Named COO of Service
Contractor George E.. Fern <Trade Show
Executive> Aaron Bludworth will join the George E. Fern
Company as chief operating officer (COO) after nearly a year at
GES Exposition Services in Las Vegas where he served in a dual
role of vice president of corporate events and vice president of
sales. He begins his new position on Monday and will soon
relocate his family to Cincinnati.
Bludworth continues as president of the Exhibition Services
& Contractors Association (ESCA).
Massachusetts
convention authority considers canceling Aramark
contract <M&C Midweek News>
Aramark employees at Boston's two main convention
centers, who have been working without a contract since October,
might never get one -- at least not from Aramark. James Rooney,
executive director of the Massachusetts Convention Center
Authority, indicated last week that the MCCA will consider
terminating its $27 million-a-year catering contract with Aramark
early next year and will seek a new food-service provider or will
choose to handle F internally.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
Troubles impending always seem worse than
troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really
are.
-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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