MAC Meetings and Events president Pat Schaumann, CSEP, CMP, announced yesterday that her company will open MAC Promotions, a new product line within MAC Meetings and Events. Like MAC Meetings, the new division will be located in St. Louis...
A crowd of 900 guests at black-tie gala Jan. 9 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Convention Center, Las Vegas, applauded the winners of the Special Events Magazine Gala Awards competition, considered the most prestigious in the special event industry...
With a 40 percent jump in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in roughly 15 months, Wall Street’s hotshots are beginning to spend lavishly again, according to a story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal...
While the economic outlook is generally improving in the marketplace, the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International’s membership survey of its 7,000 members—released today—reveals the “Top 10 Issues of Concern” facing sales and...
WHEN THE CUSTOM EVENT came on board as operations manager of the Kenosha Days of Discovery festival in Kenosha, Wis., six months before the August event, they had some specific goals in mind, says Bonnie Hansen Rybicki, president of the...
LONG GONE ARE the days of pretty for pretty's sake, say leading designers of event products. Today's designers are looking to contemporary culture — in the form of film, fashion and even business trends and world affairs — and the natural...
Add a wash of color to decor items with the Rising Rainbow, a versatile, color-changing lighted display base from Boston-based LIT Design. The Rising Rainbow transforms translucent or semi-translucent objects — such as ice sculptures, crystal...
