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Miami Beach, Fla.-based Art Basel Miami--which opens this week at the Miami Beach Convention Center--announced Wednesday that it signed a lease agreement with city officials that guarantees the show’s continuance at the center for the next three...
It's hard to picture one of the largest event marketing firms in the world as the family business, but for George P. Johnson CEO Robert G. Vallee Jr., it is. His grandfather founded the firm in 1914, counting Detroit's auto industry among his...
The Special Events Magazine Advisory Board today released the list of entries nominated to receive a Gala Award, the most prestigious prize in special events. The winners will be named Jan. 30 at The Special Event 2009 in San Diego...
Although yesterday's U.S. presidential election will calm some of the general uncertainty nagging at financial markets, the outlook for the corporate holiday party business remains bleak...
Event planner Stacey Paul Barabe, CSEP, head of Orlando, Fla.-based Exhilarate Events, wrote this post to the Orlando Sentinel in response to an editorial praising two Florida law firms that canceled their holiday parties, donating money to...