Attendance jumped 34 percent over last year at The Special Event 2003, staged Jan. 8-11 in Orlando, Fla...

YOU CAN INTERFACE on the Internet, parley via PDA and broadcast from your Blackberry. But nothing, nothing will ever take the place of communicating face to face...

Introduced at The Special Event's action-packed Theme Lunch in Orlando, Fla., in January, Audio Visual Imagineering's LaserGlobes excite with light. Each unbreakable translucent globe features a laser show projected on its entire inside surface...

M & M Rental Center announced yesterday that it has acquired Abbey Party Rents of Dallas and its subsidiary, Props of Texas, through M & M’s newly formed subsidiary Texas M & M Acquisitions LLC...

On the heels of the announcement of its acquisition of a portion of Unique Tabletop Rentals, Culver City, Calif.-based Classic Party Rentals said today that it has acquired A to Z Party Rentals, a special events rental company with operations in...

Transformit, the Gorham, Maine-based designer and manufacturer of tension-fabric structures, has announced the opening of a 200-square-meter facility in German to store and ships structures to European exhibit, retail and event customers...

This is the complete text of the article excerpted in our February issue. Robert D. Shuster is vice president of corporate development for Oakton, Va.-based Vance International Security Services; he may be reached at 800/533-6754 or 703/385-6754...

The party rental segment is a true touchstone for the health of the special event industry. Who knows better what really happened on site, and when — and if — the bills were paid? So it's a good sign that our party rental pros are feeling positive...