Pack Expo Las Vegas sets Gold standard.
Press Release Summary:
Trade Show Executive magazine included PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2007 in its inaugural Trade Show Executives Gold 100 Awards, announced in early fall. Honor recognizes not only size of show, but that it has set gold standard, which indicates that show delivers excellence to attendees and exhibitors by leveraging emerging technology and staging world class events. PACK EXPO Las Vegas occupied over 701,000 sq-ft of exhibit space, and hosted 1,776 exhibiting companies and 37,452 attendees.
Original Press Release:
Pack Expo Las Vegas Sets Gold Standard
Arlington, Va.; Dec. 9, 2008 -Trade Show Executive magazine (TSE) included PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2007 in its inaugural "Trade Show Executives Gold 100 Awards," announced in the early fall.
PACK EXPO Las Vegas, which ranked 21 in "TSE's Gold 100 Directory," occupied over 701,000 square feet of exhibit space, and hosted 1,776 exhibiting companies and 37,452 attendees. The event broke its previous records in a range of categories: visitor attendance (+10 percent), exhibitor attendance (+19 percent), total attendance (+13 percent), international attendance (+34 percent), number of exhibiting companies (+12 percent) and net square footage (+17 percent).
The honor recognizes not only the size of the show, but that it has "set the gold standard" which indicates that the show delivers excellence to attendees and exhibitors by leveraging emerging technology and staging world class events.
"PACK EXPO Las Vegas is a great example of dynamic partnership between PMMI members, industry suppliers and the Institute staff," said Charles D. Yuska, president and CEO of PMMI, which organizes and produces the PACK EXPO shows. "Working together, PACK EXPO Las Vegas has quickly become one of the leading global packaging events and continues to deliver on the very simple premise all PACK EXPO show operate under: bring the industry together to share innovation and technology."
TSE reports the trade shows on the "Gold 100" list collectively attracted nearly 2 million attendees and generated more than $2 billion in economic impact to their host cities. The magazine notes there are more than 13,000 trade shows held in the country each year.
About PMMI
PMMI is a trade association with more than 550 member companies that manufacture packaging and packaging-related converting machinery, commercially-available packaging machinery components, containers and materials in the United States and Canada. PMMI's vision is to be the leading global resource for packaging, and its mission is to improve and promote members' abilities to succeed in a global marketplace. PMMI organizes the PACK EXPO trade shows: PACK EXPO International, PACK EXPO Las Vegas and EXPO PACK Mexico. Learn more about PMMI at pmmi.org.
PACK EXPO Las Vegas will be held October 5-7, 2009, at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show will be co-located with PROCESS EXPO and Converting & Package Printing EXPO. PMMI also produces EXPO PACK Mexico, the premier packaging show in Mexico serving the Latin American region. This show will be held June 23-26, 2009, at Centro Banamex, Mexico City, Mexico. Visit www.packexpo.com for more information.
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