This Just In
Dallas, TX – A consortium made up of Wyndham Jade executives and founder/former owner Lucy Billingsley has acquired the company by buying out the equity held since 2001 by The Lafayette Investment Fund. “We pulled our team together and got it done,” said Sue Trizila, President and CEO of Wyndham Jade, adding that terms of the […]
Orlando, FL – Ending a two decades long career in the convention business, Bill Peeper announced June 26 he would retire on December 31st as the only president the Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau (Orlando CVB) has ever had. A search committee headed by Mark McHugh, the chairman of the bureau board, will name a […]
Houston, TX – Houston’s convention centers weathered this week’s torrential rainstorms without any impact on scheduled activities. Houston Hobby Airport recorded 7.4 inches of rain on June 19 while other parts of the sprawling metro area experienced more than 10 inches of rain. Officials from the George R. Brown Convention Center said the brunt of the […]
Las Vegas, NV – A funeral mass will be held on June 22 for Manny Cortez, 67, the former president of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority who died on Father’s Day of a heart attack. Cortez was long a fixture in Las Vegas as the desert outpost grew into a trade show and tourism […]
Cincinnati, OH – Cincinnati jumps into the spotlight of the midwest exhibition business this week with the June 22 grand re-opening of its convention center, a downtown venue that now offers nearly 200,000 square feet of prime exhibition space and enough meeting rooms for just about any event. “Cincinnati is making a statement that it […]
Medford, NJ – Information Today, Inc. (ITI) acquired the SpeechTEK Conferences and Expositions along with Speech Technology Magazine from AmComm Holdings, Inc. The deal, announced June 20th, was effective immediately and increased the size of ITI’s stable of IT conferences to an even dozen. SpeechTEK produces two shows annually – SpeechTEK and SpeechTEK West – that deal with technology that allows computers to recognize […]
Washington, DC – Reba Pittman Walker was named general manager and CEO of the Washington Convention Center Authority on June 15 after serving six months as acting general manager. Tom Mobley, former general manager and CEO of the Washington, DC Convention Center, joined Global Spectrum as its senior vice president of convention centers in January. Walker […]
New York, NY – New York City has reorganized its marketing operations under a single banner and appointed veteran adman George Fertitta to lead it. The three current marketing agencies – NYC & Co., NYC Big Events and NYC Marketing – will be merged into a single as-yet-unnamed organization as means of focusing financial resources and […]
Carlsbad , CA – In today’s competitive business environment, it is more important than ever to identify and nurture innovative ideas. Who are the top innovators of 2006? Trade Show Executive magazine announced today the winners of its 4th Annual Innovation Award, which honors small companies and large ones for their imagination, innovation and implementation. “Their creative energy has […]
Vail, CO — The Exhibition Services & Contractors Association (ESCA) has selected The Augusta Group as its management firm and Augusta associate and industry veteran Larry Arnaudet as its Executive Director. The announcement was made on June 13th, during its ESCA’s Summer Educational Conference in Vail, CO. Arnaudet will take the reigns after a transition period that has yet to […]
