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Review All Articles > September 24th 2008 - Vol 11, Issue 37
EACA
Showfloor Buzz
Vol. 11, Issue 37, September 24,
2008
EACA NEWS
Make Your Hotel Reservations Now for the RSMGC!
All RSMGC sponsors and participants should
make their reservations for this year’s event as soon as
possible as the number of rooms left in the block are going
fast!
There are two choices for this year’s event:
Chateau Elan
100 Rue Charlemagne
Braselton, GA 30517
Phone: 678-425-0900 or
reservations@chateauelan.com
* Special RSMGC Rate $209.00 per night, plus tax
Holiday Inn Express
2069 Highway 211
Braselton, GA 30517
Phone: 770-867-8100
* Special RSMGC Rate $99.95 per night, plus tax
* Conveniently located across the street from Chateau Elan, site
of the 2008 RSMGC.
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.
Czarnowski Launches Field Safety Program.
Czarnowski recently took a significant effort to make show
floor safety an essential and ongoing priority with their people
and the industry-at-large. Although various
show-related safety courses are offered by OSHA and various
industry associations, they are often voluntary and limited in
scope. Czarnowski took the initiative to fill this void by
working with a highly regarded safety expert to develop a
comprehensive, first of its kind, safety and health certification
program specifically for the trade show industry.
Czarnowksi delivered this program to 60 of its people in Chicago
recently, and has scheduled a second session in Las Vegas on
September 30.
Congratulations to everyone at Czarnowski for this important
innovation!
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.
To sign up for the Las Vegas Customer Service Training program
use the attached
Sponsor/Registration form
and the
List of Participants
form.
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
Marketing Exec William Pate Named Head
of Atlanta CVB <Trade
Show Executive> Marketing veteran William
Pate was formally named to replace the retiring Spurgeon
Richardson as president and CEO of the Atlanta Convention and
Visitors Bureau (ACVB) effective January 1, 2009. Pate will
begin working at his new position October 1 as president-elect to
assist in the transition that will culminate December 31 when
Richardson officially retires after 17 years at the helm of the
bureau.
San Diego Considers
Expansion <Tradeshow
Week> On Sept. 26, the San Diego Convention
Center Corp. will consider an agreement for a land lease with an
option to buy that could mean expansion of the convention center
on the bay side, adding at least 300,000 square feet of exhibit
space to the existing 616,000 sq. ft.
Korse and Shomer Acquire Abilities Expo
from Questex <Trade
Show Executive>
5Net4
Productions, a new company formed by industry veterans David
Korse and Lew Shomer, has purchased Abilities Expo, a series of
three shows focused on people with disabilities, those who care
for disabled persons, and corporate and HR managers that oversee
their company’s ADA programs. The acquisition fits
strategically with Shomer’s diversity career fairs. He
started with one event in 1984 and has since produced over 500
events.
THOUGHT FOR THE
WEEK
Each generation imagines itself to be more
intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the
one that comes after it.
-- George Orwell, British author 1903-1950
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