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Showfloor Buzz – January 1, 2025

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EACA News

Happy New Year! The EACA would like to wish all our members a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.    As we begin 2025 we want to reaffirm our dedication to growing and serving the EAC community.    Please let us know if there is anything we can do to be of service to you, or your local community.   Meanwhile we also want to extend a reminder of the current programs we have established to help you generate efficiencies and cost savings in your business:

  • Our Annual Salary Survey (coming soon)
  • Payroll services and Workers Comp discounts from Employco USA
  • Collections services at discounted rates from Commercial Credit Corp.
  • Health Insurance savings from SALA
  • The industry’s highest powered Job Board from YM Careers.

EACA to Exhibit at ExhibitorLive. The EACA will be exhibiting and sponsoring Exhibitor Live in San Antonio this March.  We will be located in Booth #276 in the Industry Association’s Pavillion.

In addition the EACA Board will meet on March 17, the day before the Expo Hall opens.   Please feel free to forward any issue of concern or opportunity that you’d like the Board to review and discuss at that meeting.

We encourage all our members to attend ExhibitorLive in San Antonio and we look forward to seeing you there.

EAC Registration Schedule EACA is supporting the following events with our EAC registration services:

Winter Fancy Foods               Jan.   19-21               Las Vegas
NAFEM                                     Feb.  26-28               Atlanta
BIO                                           Jun.   16-19               Boston

EACA Member News

McKenzie Parizek Joins Condit Exhibits  Condit Exhibits has announced the addition of McKenzie Parizek as Account Manager, further strengthening its Denver-based team. McKenzie brings a rich blend of professional experience and a lifelong connection to the tradeshow industry.

Though this is her first official role within the tradeshow sector, McKenzie is no stranger to the field. Growing up, she was immersed in the world of exhibits, with her father designing sketches to show concepts and her mother sharing stories and giveaways from her work at events.

Exhibitor Advocate Webinar on State of the Industry from Exhibitor Perspective  It’s no secret that exhibitors have long expressed that cost, specifically show service costs, are a major pain point for their ongoing participation. Exhibitor Advocate now has research from The Exhibitor Advocate and EVOLIO Marketing confirming the potential impact on our entire industry.

This State of the Event Industry uncovers several driving factors and critical insights that indicate an urgent need for collaboration between show organizers and exhibitors to maintain trust and ensure financial stability:
• Industry costs, driven heavily by show services, have risen beyond recent inflation rates.
• Almost 50% of exhibitors expressed mistrust towards show organizers—a concerning dynamic affecting collaboration.
• Exhibitors’ proposed solutions could disrupt the revenue models of show organizers – putting additional pressure on all parties.
This report provides critical information for the EAC community.  Additionally, EVOLIO Marketing’s Joe Federbush and Exhibitor Advocate’s Jessica Sibila will be conducting a webinar on January 14 to share their perspective on the research and answer questions from the industry.  Click the link provided to register.

Exhibitor Advocate Seeks Show Kits  In their ongoing efforts to capture, analyze and chronicle exhibitor costs the Exhibitor Advocate has requested assistance from fellow EACA members to share any show kits you might have available.

They are specifically looking for the following:
  • Electrical forms for all cities
  • Internet forms for all cities
  • Full Show Kits for the following cities:
    • Atlanta
    • Honolulu
    • Philadelphia
    • Reno
    • SanFrancisco
    • Seattle
Please send us your kits/forms as .PDF’s as soon as possible. If the files are too large to email ([email protected]), let me know and we can send you a Dropbox link.

Industry News

Brad Mayne Joints ConventionSuite by NewGen Business Solutions <Exhibit City News> NewGen Business Solutions recently announced that Brad Mayne has joined ConventionSuite as Industry Business Process Expert. With his extensive experience and specialization in Venue Business Processes, NewGen believes that Brad will play a key role in bringing valuable expertise to the venue side of their organization.

Airline Execs Faced Congress Over Junk Fees  <Meeting News> Executives from five major U.S. airlines faced a grilling on Capitol Hill recently over those pesky add-on fees that regularly cause passengers to pay far more than the base price of a plane ticket.  In a sometimes-heated, two-hour hearing, a Senate subcommittee heard testimony from leaders of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines.

The topic: steep growth in ancillary fees paid by customers. These costs stretch beyond checked bags to other “extras” like selecting a seat or, on some restrictive tickets, bringing a full-size carry-on bag on board.

Industry Leaders Launch Experiential Design Authority <Exhibit City News>   International Collective to Oversee Competitions for Exhibits, Events, and More

Travis Stanton, Director of Strategy at Storylink Creative and former Editor in Chief of Exhibitor magazine, is thrilled to announce the formation of The Experiential Design Authority, a governing body that will oversee a number of awards and recognition programs honoring experiential design excellence. Backed by a domestic advisory board of more than 12 industry leaders, as well as a burgeoning international board with representatives from nearly 30 countries, The Experiential Design Authority seeks to provide fully transparent, unbiased, low-cost, wholly objective competitions that spotlight the best experiential design in the world while contributing to the education of the next generation of designers.

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