Sep 07, 2007

ADVANTAGE TRAVEL & INCENTIVES INC. Savage, Minn. AMBASSADORS LLC Newport Beach, Calif. AMERICAN EXPRESS BUSINESS TRAVEL New York BCD MEETINGS & INCENTIVES Chicago | BI Edina, Minn. BUCOM INTERNATIONAL INC. Chicago CARLSON MARKETING WORLDWID...

Slow And Steady Growth

Sep 07, 2007

Don't look for David D'Eletto on the golf course or snoozing in the corner office. For this hands-on leader, there's no time to rest...

It's All About Balance

Sep 07, 2007

Kathy Murphy and Scott Gray are believers in work/life balance. They launched Philadelphia-based Gray Consulting International Meetings & Events in August 1994, and today, with 55 full-time associates, they pride themselves on their ability to...

From Supermarkets to Super Meetings

Sep 07, 2007

When Dick Baker, founder of Appleton, Wis.-based Creative Group Inc., developed a marketing plan for a grocery client back in 1961, he never imagined that the concept would lead to his own business...

Now A Major Global Player

Sep 07, 2007

“Our company has a tag line,” says Scott Graf, president of BCD Meetings & Incentives, an operating unit of BCD Travel. “Global Presence, Regional Alignment, Local Service. And we win with local service.” ...

Behind the Greening of the DNC

Sep 07, 2007

There's no doubt that efforts to lessen the impact of meetings and events on the environment has become a dominant trend. But as far as Ambassadors LLC is concerned, putting the spotlight on the environment is no fad. It's become a core part of...

Corporate Meetings & Incentives Unveils First Annual “CMI 25” List of Industry's Largest Companies

Sep 07, 2007

NEW YORK (September 10, 2007) - Penton Media's Corporate Meetings & Incentives®magazine, the leading information source for the $40.3 billion corporate meetings and events industry, today unveiled its first annual “CMI 25” list of the industry...

How to Stay Green on the Road

Sep 06, 2007

Randal Savage, corporate director, rooms, at Starwood Hotels and Resorts, White Plains, N.Y., has seen and heard it all. Empty hotel rooms with the lights on, the television blaring, and on some occasions, the shower running...

McCormick Place West Opens for Business

Sep 06, 2007

It's called an addition, but the just-opened McCormick Place West in Chicago is more like a stand-alone, self-contained, 740,000-square-foot convention center, connected by an enclosed walkway to the 2.2-million-square-foot McCormick Place in...