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Review All Articles > June 10th 2009 - Vol 12, Issue 23 EACA Showfloor Buzz
Vol. 12, Issue 23, June 10, 2009
EACA NEWS
Make Plans to Attend the EACA 11th Annual Conference! The EACA is hosting its 11th Annual Conference in Chicago, IL on July 20-21, 2009, in conjunction with TS2. EACA members are invited to come together to once again to connect with colleagues, develop new skills, and find answers to the business issues that are most critical to your company’s success.
The EACA 11th Anniversary Conference Schedule contains overview information on 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.
2009 Hall of Fame Nominees! The EACA Hall of Fame has been established to recognized the achievements of those trade show industry exhibit service professionals who have made invaluable contributions to our industry during their careers.
The Finalists for induction into the 2009 Class of the EACA Hall of Fame are:
Steve J. Barry, Jr., TWI
Tom Mobley, Global Spectrum
Art Ursin, Poirot /Exhibitors Service of America, Inc/ Metro Exhibitors Service.
Mickey Hellberg, Creative Productions.
All employees of EACA member companies are eligible to vote. For complete information on all our nominees and to cast your vote use the official Hall of Fame ballot or simply email your vote to jimwurm@eaca.com.
2009 Intrepid Award Nominees! The Intrepid Award is awarded to the individual, organization or consortium that has made great contributions to the cause of customer service in the trade show industry.
The Five Finalists for this year's Intrepid Award are:
David Causton, MPEA.
Mia Rampersad / IHA
Renaissance Management.
Bob Lessin, Business Rep., Local
David Mihalik, EliteXPO Cargo Systems.
All employees of EACA member companies are eligible to vote. For complete information on all our nominees and to cast your vote use the official Intrepid Award ballot or simply email your vote to jimwurm@eaca.com.
RSMGC Announces 2009 Dates! The Board of Directors of the Randy Smith Memorial Golf Classic has announced the dates of its 15th anniversary event. This year’s RSMGC will take place on October 12, 2009 (Columbus Day) at the Stone Mountain Golf Club in Stone Mountain, GA. Be sure to mark it on your calendar!
EACA PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Marilyn Oshman Passes Away. The EACA would like to extend it condolences to the Oshman family on the recent death (June 8) of Marilyn Oshman (owner of Professional Exhibitor’s Service) after a long bout with cancer.
The Oshman family plans to celebrate Marilyn’s life on Monday (June 15) at noon at the outdoor pavilion in North Village (down the street from her house that she
loved so much).
In lieu of flowers the Oshman family has setup a Memorial Fund in Marilyn’s name. With the money donated we will purchase items for the chemotherapy treatment
room in hopes of passing along some of her strength and laughter to
others. She was known to watch comedy on portable DVD players and laugh
(outloud) her way through chemo treatments before.
Marilyn Oshman Memorial Fund
CenterState Bank Central Florida
1000 West Osceola Parkway
Kissimmee, FL 34741
Attn: Gary Smith
407-846-2678
CHAPTER NEWS
Chicago Chapter News
Chicago Chapter Meeting Announcement
The Chicago Chapter of the EACA will be having a meeting for all Chicagoland EACA members on Wednesday, June 22. The meeting will take place at 11am in Room E153 and will include a presentation by Anthony Lopez, Asst. GM of McCormick Place with a lunch to follow.
Those attending are requested to send their RSVP to Nancy Virene of The TERM Group by email. Her email address is njvirene@thetermgroup.com.
Chicago Randy Announcement
The organizers of the “Chicago Randy” urge everyone to mark their calendars with the date for this year’s event. The Chicago Randy Golf Outing will take place this year on Monday, August 3. As usual the event will begin with a 1 pm shot gun start at Maple Meadows Golf Course in Wood Dale, IL. Additional details about participation and sponsorship will be available in the near future.
Las Vegas Chapter News
EDPA Foundation Event Announcement
Please join the EDPA Las Vegas Chapter, working in conjunction with the EDPA Foundation, at The Seventh Annual Tradeshow Industry Education Scholarship Golf Classic on June 12th, 2009. We will have a great day of golf at the beautiful Rhodes Ranch Golf Club in Las Vegas.
INDUSTRY NEWS
Two Food Shows Get Together <Tradeshow Week> The Institute of Food Technologists and the Food Processing Suppliers Assn. will collocate the IFT Food & Technology Expo and FPSA Process Expo at Chicago’s McCormick Place beginning July 18-20, 2010.
Study reveals physicians' feelings toward health care marketing methods<Expo Web News> A new University of Mississippi survey of 453 orthopedic physicians, underwritten by a grant from the Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association (HCEA), found that physicians show less skepticism toward information received at medical exhibits than other methods of health care marketing.
Researchers found that medical device exhibits received skepticism scores 27.4 percent lower than device journal advertisements. Similarly, pharmaceutical exhibits received skepticism scores 12.8 percent lower than pharmaceutical journal advertisements. The study's findings are reported separately for pharmaceutical and medical device marketing messages
Exhibitor Pullback Costs GES <Trade Show Executive> The slump in the trade show industry will mean continued tough sledding for GES Exposition Services after a First Quarter in which revenues were 28% below what they were at the beginning of 2008. Viad Corp., the parent company of GES, said in its 2009 First Quarter earnings report that it anticipated the full-year earnings for GES in 2009 would be off 23% to 27%.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
Once you have glimpsed the world as it might be, as it ought to be, as it's going to be (however that vision appears to you), it is impossible to live compliant and complacent anymore in the world as it is.
---Paul Rogat Loeb American author (1952 - present)
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