Nov 14, 2018 | Features, I&D Shop to Showfloor
Pictured: Jim Wurm with his wife, CJ Five Questions for the Executive Director of EACA by Jeanne Brei Jim Wurm was born in Cleveland and moved to Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Long Island growing up and then went to Philadelphia on a baseball scholarship. Planning to...
Nov 7, 2018 | Features, I&D Shop to Showfloor
Focusing on Skilled Labor Training & The Stories Behind Every Project by F. Andrew Taylor When the Carpenters union in Chicago was trying to hammer out some ideas on how to spread the word about what it does, the Chicago Regional Council turned to television. The...
Oct 31, 2018 | Features, I&D Shop to Showfloor, Industry Profiles
by Leslie Mujica & F. Andrew Taylor A spate of minor fires have plagued Las Vegas exhibitions in recent years. For example, a Nov. 12, 2015 fire at an ophthalmology convention at the Sands Expo and Convention Center caused an estimated $100,000 in damage. This...
Sep 26, 2018 | Features, I&D Shop to Showfloor
What do you like best about working as a tradeshow manager and what are some of the challenges? by Jeanne Brei ECN visited MAGIC at the Las Vegas Convention Center just before the closing bell to ask a few tradeshow managers an easy question…What do you like best...
Sep 19, 2018 | Features, I&D Shop to Showfloor
Pictured: “Big Al” Lichtman, Larry Arnaudet, Bruce Nable and Richard Curran at Woodlands Country Club Six Questions for a Man who’s a “People Person” by Jeanne Brei “Big Al” Lichtman stands 6’6” and looms large in the tradeshow world in Miami. Although he...
Sep 12, 2018 | Features, I&D Shop to Showfloor
by Lesley Martin In 1968, Hans Staeger introduced the extruded Octanorm Exhibition Stand System at EuroShop in Düsseldorf. At that time, most exhibits were heavy wooden structures, and set-up required a crew with carpentry skills and tools. In the 1990s, inspired by...
