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 industry. But trading in her “boring” bank job for a position as sales and marketing secreta...
It takes a great event to impress beauty editors who have seen — and sampled — it all. At the April media launch of Coty Prestige's new “Harajuku Lovers” fragrance collection, created by pop superstar Gwen Stefani, Los Angeles-based TBA Global ma...
Businesspeople are holding their breath this week as the U.S. Congress wrangles over the astonishing $700 billion bailout proposed by the Bush Administration to save the sinking financial sector. Although Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is urgin...
The threat of Hurricane Gustav on the Gulf Coast put the damper on appearances by some politicians at the Republican National Convention, but the party pace continues unabated, event pros tell Special Events. The convention runs Sep. 1-4 in Minne...
Los Angeles-based TBA Global, a leading experiential marketing and communications company, today announced the launch of its new "Connective Learning" platform, which aims to build learning programs that link learners with content while developin...
View the 2009 50 top event planning companies here!
'08 has been great for some event planning companies — mega events such as the Summer Olympics in Beijing and the U.S. presidential conventions are boosting forecasts overall. Our respondents ...
MAKE IT DELICIOUS
To help manufacturer Electrolux debut its new line of kitchen appliances, Fairborn, Ohio-based exhibit expert Czarnowski turned an exhibit booth into cupcake heaven.
At the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show in April in Chicago, some ...
When it comes to corporate events, the in-house experts are feeling a bite on business. After six years of growing optimism, only 19 percent say they will host more events this year than last, a 10 percent dip from the results of the 2007 poll. H...
Global brands — Coca-Cola, BMW, Microsoft — demand partners who think globally. And these three, plus scores of others, have found that with Vok Dams Group. From its original office — founded in Wuppertal, Germany, in 1975 — Vok Dams has blossome...
The flashing lights coming from the e-mail invitations to hip-hop artist Kanye West's “Glow in the Dark Tour” after-parties let invitees know exactly what they were in for. New York-based Strategic Group Production treated an eclectic mix of “inf...
