This Just In
Washington, DC- Reba Pittman Walker will join the Washington Convention Center Authority as Deputy General Manager on January 3rd, according to an announcement made today by Tom Mobley, General Manager & CEO. Pittman Walker was part of the team that opened the first Washington Convention Center in 1982 and is currently the President of the Hotel […]
Los Angeles – Howard Friedman has joined VNU Expositions as Group Show Director of the ASD/AMD Merchandise Group, announced Sam Bundy, Group President. Friedman has an extensive background in trade shows and marketing. He was a marketing and business development consultant; a Vice President at Reed Exhibitions, responsible for shows in the manufacturing, packaging, beverage and […]
Atlanta -John Zinn will retire from his position as Senior Vice President of the International Woodworking Machinery and Supply Fair (IWF) at the end of December. He has been with the organization since 1981 and oversaw the show’s smooth transition from Louisville, KY to Atlanta, GA in 1984. Most of Zinn’s responsibilities will be assumed by […]
Following the acquisition, MGM Mirage will own the nation’s largest hotel exhibition center — the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino which offers 934,731 square feet of prime exhibit space. Mandalay Bay is also the ninth largest exhibition facility in the U.S., according to Trade Show Executive magazine’s Directory of the World’s Top Convention Centers. MGM Mirage will also own […]
Washington, DC – The U.S. Department of Commerce has named a record 42 shows to its International Buyer Program for its 2006 fiscal year, which begins October 2005. This is a significant increase over the 36 events selected for 2005 and the 28 chosen in 2004. The growth was made possible by a reorganization that brought […]
Washington, DC – On December 8th, the Washington, DC Convention Center unveiled a historic Safety and Substance Abuse Prevention Program that will take effect in three weeks. Here’s how labor unions, local service contractors and center officials made it happen — and why it outshines other agreements on substance testing. Starting January 1, 2005, all contractors providing […]
Chicago, IL – Michael Bandy will step down as President and will leave the Trade Show Exhibitors Association (TSEA) on March 31st, announced Sal Cavallaro, CME, Chairman of the Board of TSEA. Bandy joined the association in April 1987 as Director of Communications and was promoted to President in 1998. He plans to form an association […]
Washington, DC – The Board of Directors of the Washington Convention Center Authority agreed on Dec. 3rd to expand the meeting and ballroom capacity of the convention center by 75,000 square feet. It will also develop and own a 1,200-room headquarters hotel with 100,000 square feet of meeting and ballroom space. “This is a tremendous step […]
Washington, DC – Now you see it, soon you won’t. The “old” Washington Convention Center, which was built in 1983 between 9th and 11th Streets NW, will be imploded on December 18th at 7:30 a.m. The implosion sequence will begin in the middle of the structure and flow outward, creating a controlled descent of the structure over […]
Arlington, VA – In November, all eyes were on PACK EXPO in Chicago’s McCormick Place to see if it was really possible for a show with over 1.2 million net square feet of exhibit space and 2,000 exhibiting companies to act as its own general contractor. Did it work? Will other show organizers attempt to become […]
