Holiday Party Outlook Grim; Are You Discounting?

Although yesterday's U.S. presidential election will calm some of the general uncertainty nagging at financial markets, the outlook for the corporate holiday party business remains bleak....

Help the Economy: Host That Holiday Party!

Have the party, ask guests to bring a small gift for the charity, then the law office matches the gift. Everyone keeps working and creates a positive impact to our economy...

Galas: Bash Style Events Creates Eco-friendly Bash

By Natasha Garber

It was the perfect plan: launch one hot, new site at another. The client, online eco-lifestyle magazine EcoStiletto, booked Ecco Hollywood an as-yet-to-open...

Confetti: Vok Dams Creates Racy Launch for Lamborghini

Elizabeth Arnold

There is luxury, then there is unique luxury. That's the distinction that Wuppertal, Germany-based Vok Dams Group sought to create for premium car-maker...

Event Marketing Campaigns Wow the Crowds

The good news: You are promoting the opening of the $500 million floating casino, the largest in the Midwest. The bad news: It will open Aug. 8, the same...

Team Rover Adventures Offers Team-building

Philomat, Va.-based Team Rover Adventures challenges, motivates and connects co-workers through a series of executive retreat programs in an informal,...

Holiday Parties Scale Back, Challenger Says

Prominent outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said today that its annual survey of human resource directors shows that 77 percent of companies interviewed plan to host holiday parties for employees this year, down from 90 percent in 2007....

Economy Crashes Holiday Party Business

Nearly two-thirds of respondents to an online Special Events poll say that lousy economic news is cutting into their corporate holiday party business....

India's Eye-Opening Event Industry

By Andrea Michaels

August 2008 I was asked to keynote for a new association of event and entertainment planners in India, an organization called EEMA. It was new and bold,...

The Last Word: It's Kathy Miller's Time

By Elizabeth Arnold

Timing really is everything. Kathy Miller, founder of Schaumburg, Ill.-based Total Event Resources, at first didn't dream of working in the special event...