This Just In
Rosemont, IL – The Chicagoland Outdoors Show has been sold to Show Manager John Lewinski who plans to take steps to expand the annual event. Lewinski acquired the show from Reed Exhibitions last month and will keep it at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. “This is a great suburban location that serves the […]
Las Vegas, NV — The value of exhibitions may now be given more weight in U.S. trade policy negotiations with the addition of Sheldon Adelson to a key government trade panel. Adelson is a founder of COMDEX and the current chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp. The White House announced that President Bush nominated Adelson for […]
Woodland Hills, CA – Advanstar Communications selected Chris DeMoulin, an alumnus of the Disney empire, to be the new president of MAGIC International. DeMoulin, who was also named executive vice president of Advanstar’s Fashion Group, is a former senior vice president of Disney’s $23 billion Consumer Products Group and was most recently an executive with the […]
Columbus, OH –The Greater Columbus Convention Center was open for business Thursday after the pre-dawn rupture of a downtown water main inundated the facility and even stirred up fears of a structural collapse. Engineers inspected the center Wednesday and determined that the damage was cosmetic and that things could be put back to normal with the […]
Chicago, IL – Juan Ochoa, 36, a former marine who launched his own business expo for the Hispanic market, began his new duties in January as the new CEO of Chicago’s Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, which owns and operates McCormick Place and Navy Pier . Illinois Governor Rod D. Blagojevich appointed Ochoa to succeed Leticia […]
Los Angeles, CA — The new videogame show launched by IDG World Expo will be officially known as Entertainment for All Expo or by its shorter moniker, E For All Expo. IDG said the new name for the event was selected from the more than 3,000 entries submitted in a naming contest run on the GamePro.com Web site. The […]
Chicago, IL – Brad Lewis, who spent 17 years with the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau (CCTB), joined SmithBucklin this month as vice president of convention and trade show services. Lewis will be based at the SmithBucklin office in Chicago and will work on enhancing the association management company’s exhibit and sponsorship sales as well beefing […]
Washington, DC — Douglas Lowenstein, the outgoing president of the Electronic Software Association, has agreed to become the president and CEO of a newly formed association in Washington that represents leading private equity firms. The Private Equity Council said that Lowenstein would assume his new job in February after wrapping up his tenure at the ESA, […]
New York, NY – Fawcette Technical Publications, Inc., producers of specialized IT conferences, was acquired by 1105 Media, Inc., and will be merged into 1105’s Redmond Media Group. Fawcette specializes in producing how-to information for IT professionals through print publications, Web sites and conferences such as the VSLive!, WebBuilder 2.0 and Software Architecture Summit. Redmond Media Group is an outlet […]
London and New Delhi – Declaring India to be a “happening market,” Montgomery International and its long-time Indian partner Inter Ads announced the formation of a new company, Inter Ads Montgomery India Pvt Ltd. After five years of close cooperation and three successful annual joint venture exhibitions, the two companies decided to make the arrangement permanent. […]
