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Review All Articles > January 21st 2009 - Vol 12, Issue 3 EACA Showfloor Buzz
Vol. 12, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
Rally at the Alley Announces Dates / Beneficiary The 5th Annual Rally at the Alley will take place in Boston and is scheduled for Thursday, April 2, 2009.
This year's Rally will benefit industry veteran Chris Kolesnik. Many of you know Chris from her days at Access TCA and Exhibitgroup/Giltspur, or may have worked with her since creating Cyrkdesign in 2003. Or perhaps you know her husband, Howard Bailey, a long time employee and retiree of Exhibitgroup/Giltspur.
What you may not know is that last fall Chris was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. There's never a good time to hear you have cancer, and for Chris, last fall was no exception. Just one year prior her husband developed Temporal Arteritis, leaving him partially blind in one eye and resulting in a number of procedures and ultimately surgery.
Thank you to Michael Hanifan of Sacks Exhibits for nominating Chris for this year's Rally.
How You Can Help
Our immediate need is for event sponsors. As in past years we are asking you, our trade show family, to support the Rally as an event sponsor. Your $500.00 donation supports and defrays the cost of the facility and the expenses related to holding this event. Our event sponsorships allow 100% of the proceeds raised by our bowlers and participants to go direct to our family in need. And remember, all donations are tax deductible.
So many generous companies have donated the past four years, making the Rally at the Alley a wonderful success. Several of our local companies have generously sponsored every Rally to date! We're looking forward to welcoming them back for the fifth year with a special acknowledgement of their dedication and hope many more of you will be able to help us once again. With companies like yours supporting this event, how could we be anything but successful???
If your company or organization is able to commit to an event sponsorship, please contact Sharon Bingham (sbingham@championboston.com) as soon as possible so that we may include your company name or group on our email blasts, website and on other promotional materials.
Thank you again for your support! Please contact Sharon with any questions or to for more information on how you can help!
CHAPTER NEWS
Chicago Chapter News
EAC Notice / Reminder from IHA
Show management at IHA would like all EACs that service exhibitors at their show to take note of the following announcements.
• International Home + Housewares Show Pre-Con Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, March 11 at 1:00 pm in meeting room E255 at McCormick Place.
• Reminder to all EAC’s regarding your client’s booths - Service of utilities must be supplied at the rear of booths. Exhibit structures must have a one-foot unobstructed corridor in the rear and six inches on one side of the space to allow passage for utility and maintenance personnel.
• For more information on how you can better support this year’s IHA see the attached Top 5 Reminders document.
NO SMOKING at McCormick Place
A reminder to all contractors working at McCormick Place that the No Smoking Policy will be strictly enforced. Anyone in violation will receive a citation.
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.
POSITIONS AVAILABLE
Job Title: Account Manager
Description: Prominent AV Contractor seeking Account Manager for corporate office in Chandler AZ.
EXPERIENCED Account Manager needed for our new corporate office in Chandler, AZ. Must be organized, able to multi-task, have attention to detail, excellent phone presence, be deadline specific, able to work in fast paced environment, be a self motivated and driven individual with previous A/V or Tradeshow/ Event experience.
All interested candidates should send resume in confidence to jimwurm@eaca.com.
INDUSTRY NEWS
Intl. CES Attendance Estimate Lowered <Tradeshow Week> Following the close of the 2009 Intl. CES in Las Vegas, Consumer Electronics Assn. officials lowered to 110,000 their estimate of attendance at this year's Jan. 8-11 show in Las Vegas. Previously, CEA officials had said pre-registration figures indicated attendance would be approximately 130,000, down from 141,000 last year.
United to Offer Inflight Wi-Fi <M&C Midweek News> Last Wednesday, United Airlines announced it would begin providing inflight Wi-Fi Internet access on flights between New York City's JFK International Airport and the Los Angeles and San Francisco international airports. Access will be offered on 13 of United's 757 airplanes in the latter half of this year. The service, called Gogo Inflight Internet, will be provided by Aircell and will be available to all passengers for $12.95. United joins three other airlines -- American Airlines, Delta and Virgin America -- now offering inflight Internet provided by Aircell
MPI: Remote Access to Meetings to Increase <Trade Show Executive> The high ROI provided by trade shows and meetings means clients will be unwilling to give up on face-to-face events even though attendance and budgets will be lower in 2009. The preliminary results of the FutureWatch 2009 survey by Meeting Professionals International (MPI) said planners were bracing for a rough year although technology used both on-site and for remote access to content and the actual sessions would help keep costs down and participation up.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
-- Edmund Burke British statesman (1729-97)
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