CME INDUSTRY TOPS $1.3 BILLION

Despite many CME providers' perception that commercial support seems to be drying up lately, the latest figures available from the “ACCME Annual Report Data 2001,” which was released this summer, say it just ain't so. In 2001, the average income each organization received from commercial support was $845,059, a 23 percent increase over average commercial support incomes in 2000.