As we begin our 25thyear publishing Special Events Magazine, each month we salute event professionals who have reached career milestones. As software supplier Solutions by Computer nears its silver anniversary, more than 2,400 businesses manage ...

ASK party rental operations, “How's business?” and you may have to wait for an answer. Why? They're too busy to reply. At Atlas Party Rentals in Boynton Beach, Fla., “Revenue has increased 400 percent in the last seven years and 75 percent in th...

NOT every event professional is cut out for the social scene. But for Daniel Briones, CPCE, private events are personal favorites. “I love getting involved with a family and into an individual's personal space — being part of their thoughts and p...

In the old days, event games were strictly kid stuff. As Stacey Paul Barabe, CSEP, director of sales for Orlando, Fla.-based Event Mall, puts it, “Before, you would show up with a dart game and a pop-a-shot and call it an ‘event.’” Now, games app...

TWO 3,200-guest receptions, one sit-down dinner of the same size and a raft of specialty bars, stations, passed hors d'oeuvre and cocktails — sounds like an elaborate fête for an opulent monarch. But this week of king-size events observed the 75t...

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...