CONFETTI: VOK DAMS HELPS LANCOME MAKE IT ALL UP

Alexandra Gudmundsson

FOR Lancome's Color Designs Awards in May where the first Makeup Artist of the Year award was presented the cosmetics group hired Wuppertal, Germany-based...

INCENTIVE SPENDING TO RISE IN '07

Some 44 percent of executives responsible for their company's incentive spend say they will have bigger budgets to work with this year than last, while 30 percent say their spend will about the same. ...

THE LAST WORD: ROBERT SIVEK'S SENSE OF DIRECTION

BY NATASHA GARBER

WHILE 80 percent of Robert Sivek's event business these days is corporate work, the producer got his start in social. I was a social worker, and fundraisers...

CONFETTI: CIRC CREATES A DISCOMFORT ZONE

Alexandra Gudmundsson

THERE were no shuttles, no relaxed breakfasts and definitely no frills when Wiesbaden, Germany-based Circ Corporate Experience GmbH & Co. sent 1,000 of...

Imagination Creates a Big Stage for a Big Event

WHEN you make a big announcement, you need a big stage. Imagination USA provided just such a setting for client Ford Motor Co. at Ford's new-model introduction...

GUEST ROOM: CLAIRE STROOPE AND JACK EICHHORN ON RESPONSIBLE SPENDING

BY CHRISTINE LANDRY

CLAIRE Jolley Stroope, CMP, started as a meeting and event planner, worked in catering and, finally, began a business consulting event companies and corporations...

GALAS: EVENTQUEST SERVES AS CELEBRITY STYLIST DURING FASHION WEEK

BY NATASHA GARBER

THERE'S nothing like New York's annual Fashion Week to get the blood of style mavens pumping. And there's nothing like Fashion Rocks to kick off the city's...

EVENT MARKETING CAMPAIGNS ARE HITTING THE STREET

BY LISA HURLEY

EIGHTY-one percent of businesses can't be wrong. That's how many companies are turning to event marketing to make a meaningful impact, according to the...

SPECIAL EVENTS CELEBRATES 25 YEARS WITH GEORGIA CLARK

BY LISA HURLEY

As we begin our 25th year publishing Special Events Magazine, every month we salute event professionals who have reached career milestones. CPG Communications...

EDITOR'S PAGE: FROM THE HEART

Lisa Hurley Editor

As this issue goes to press, we are in Gala Award madness. Our offices are overflowing with entries ranging from corporate product launches to bar mitzvahs...