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Monday, July 31, 2006 |
Hmm, I just picked up something from the NAM press release--it said the September 2007 show. It's always been in March. So I hit the Website. Canon is combining NMW (itself the combination of 4 trade shows) into the Assembly and Quality shows. It's like 6 shows in one. The Web site doesn't give the actual dates (I just love good marketing...). Anyway, they can aggregate the number of shows and then boast total number of exhibitors and attendees, but I ask you, how many people go for all 6 shows (Control, Design, Plant, IT, Quality, Assembly)???
Gosh, now my March looks better. Anyone want a visit? There's no soccer then ;-)
5:48:49 PM 
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I don't know if this is big news (I didn't even know they did it) but the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) will no longer sponsor the National Manufacturing Week trade show held annually in the spring in Chicago. NAM members were privy to a discount on their exhibit space. No longer.
Reed Exhibitions recently sold NMW to Canon Communications and details of the 2007 event are still to be forthcoming.
5:41:02 PM
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Digi International is expanding its portfolio of wireless products by acquiring MaxStream in a cash and stock deal. Digi is known for wired connectivity devices beginning with serial to Ethernet converters then moving into high powered wireless. MaxStream is a wireless products company with strengths at the lower power end including ZigBee. Interestingly, MaxStream had just over $10 million in revenues in 2005. Digi expects it to more than double next year.
4:54:09 PM
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I did pretty well on the college fitness test yesterday. Even at 8 am, the temps were about 80 with the humidity higher than that. It sure saps your energy. After an hour of running tests came 6 hours of clinics. What do you want to know about soccer rules? There was a college coach there. He came away with a different impression of referees after watching about 50 of us running, sprinting and sweating. He knows we just don't show up to pick up a check. It takes a lot of preseason work and study.
4:48:32 PM
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Got a note from Ken Graber who is in marketing with ABB low voltage drives about a new twist on the mobile display van marketing ploy. When I was in sales and took vans out to parking lots of my larger customers (and plied them with donuts and other bribes) some might use their radios to call back to a buddy. Now they pull out their mobile phones and call the others to come out and look.
Ken's wondering if the old take a van to the site (bring the trade show to the user) is gathering steam. Maybe so. We built display vans as a diversification move at Airstream in the 1970s. I was in sales using them from 1991 to 1997. But it seems like I'm getting more and more press releases from companies who've taken the show on the road. Another nail in the coffin of general trade shows--especially product-oriented ones?
4:43:59 PM
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