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July 7
NAMA TO CREATE NEW
KNOCKOUT INDUSTRY EVENT:
Expos Will Transition into OneShow in 2010;
Sends More Resources to Create Bigger, Three-Day Event
That Delivers Added Impact
CHICAGO, IL – July 7 – The National Automatic Merchandising Association (NAMA) Board of Directors has voted to combine the National and Spring Expos to create a completely innovative, fresh, three-day springtime event that will deliver benefits for exhibitors and attendees alike, beyond typical Exposition events, NAMA President and CEO Richard M. Geerdes, NCE announced today. Every aspect is being re-created to ensure attendees enjoy a completely innovative learning and networking experience.
In making the announcement Geerdes said, “This year the Board of Directors of NAMA decided that the time was right to refresh our event to a more powerful ‘must attend’ marketplace – one where everyone in our industry will converge at one time and place, allowing them to do everything at once. This combined show will become THE place to go for all new solutions, ideas, education, products/services and connections to ensure that those attending will leave with a distinct competitive advantage. At the end of the day members of our industry are going to say, ‘Wow! That was sensational!’
Just a few of the many advantages to creating ONEShow for all of us include:
• A single springtime event means companies can better focus marketing efforts and launch new products more effectively
• Exhibitors and attendees will enjoy significant cost savings
• All of the industry’s decision makers will be under ONE roof at one time
• ONE event is friendly to our environment with the elimination of an entire event carbon footprint
The new and expanded show will premier April 28-30, 2010 in Chicago at McCormick Place North -- which is a new environment -- and will be followed in 2011 with the event scheduled for April 27-29. Future show locations will likely rotate between Las Vegas and Chicago.
Added Geerdes, “Coffee service, foodservice, vending, suppliers, operators, association members and nonmembers will all come together at the same time in the same place year after year, which means we will become a more unified community. And everyone will save money, whether it’s because of reduced booth rental fees or savings on travel and accommodation expenses for attendees.”
As part of the decision, NAMA will build on the success of its Coffee Summit, launching an even stronger, harder-hitting 2-day educational seminar event solely for the coffee community.
Concluded Geerdes, “We have planned for this electrifying new event for several years and decided now is the time to put it in place. We’ll introduce the complete show details soon. More than anything else, this is an opportunity for our industry to help everyone succeed. We are showcasing this sensational event to ensure a prosperous new future for our vending, coffee service and foodservice industries.”
NAMA is the national trade association of the food and refreshment vending, coffee service and foodservice management industries including on-site, commissary, catering, & mobile. Its membership is comprised of service companies, equipment manufacturers and suppliers of products and services to operating service companies. The basic mission of the association, to collectively advance and promote the automatic merchandising and coffee service industries, still guides NAMA today as it did in 1936, the year of the organization’s founding.
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