EVENT COMPANIES THAT hitched their wagons to the fast-rising dot-com stars of the late '90s, only to discover them crashing like meteors soon after, at least learned an important lesson: It's folly to put all your eggs into one basket when it...
IT WASN'T JUST FORMER students who joined forces for Duke University's April 21 Alumni Reunion Gala. The Catering Co., based in Chapel Hill, N.C., got into the “getting together” act by bringing on another local caterer to lend a hand in producing...
Wolfgang Puck has announced that Lee Linderman will join Los Angeles-based Wolfgang Puck Catering & Events as director of sales and marketing. Linderman comes to the company from eParties.com, a business-to-business Web site, where he created...
Since the last quarter of 2000, it's been called sluggish, weak, slumping, limping and lumbering. What is "it?" The U.S. Economy, of course. With the stock market taking more dips and turns this year than Disneyland's "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride,"...
SECRETS OF FINDING THE FINEST FOOD IMAGINE you are catering the ultimate dinner party. But the appetizer tray features chunks of processed cheese instead of the double-cream French Brie you had planned. The bouillabaisse is devoid of seafood, and...
The latest news from the special event industry Consultants Create Alliance on the Web Sandi Cottrell, Paul Flackett, CITE, John Udell and Bob Vitagliano, CITE, joined forces in July to create a consulting-based Web site (www.fource.org) for the...
