Three mutual fund companies have been slapped with fines totaling $700,000 by the National Association of Securities Dealers for improperly treating brokers to fancy parties and pricey meals, the agency announced Monday. The NASD, which oversees...
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 Vok Dams Group, which decided to endorse on-the-rise makeup artists and present the dis...
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 be about the same. Only 20 percent say they will have less...
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 were a byproduct,” he says of his unusual 1970s career launch. “I was working with the y...
THERE were no shuttles, no relaxed breakfasts and definitely no frills when Wiesbaden, Germany-based Circ Corporate Experience GmbH & Co. sent 1,000 of client E.ON Energie AG's managers to chilly Varna, Bulgaria, for three days last November for ...
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 meeting, held July 31 through Aug. 11 in Las Vegas. This year's event marked the first...
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 weeklong celebration of design innovation. Curated by Sir Elton John and featuring music s...
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 EventView 2006 study from George P. Johnson Co. and MPI...
CLAIRE Jolley Stroope, CMP, started as a meeting and event planner, worked in catering and, finally, began a business consulting event companies and corporations on their spend. Now she works in procurement as a senior manager of global meeting s...
As we begin our 25th year publishing Special Events Magazine, every month we salute event professionals who have reached career milestones.
CPG Communications Group, founded in Kansas City, Mo., in 1981, had plenty to celebrate at its 25th anniv...
