New Business Contracts

Staff -- Tradeshow Week, 4/25/2005

Intl. Bowl Expo has selected GES Exposition Services as the official service contractor for 2005 and 2006. The annual show, which typically brings together more than 5,000 attendees from 40 countries with more than 250 exhibitors, will take place June 29–30 at Orlando's Orange County Convention Center and next year at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The Buyers Market of American Craft winter and summer shows have chosen Hargrove as general service contractor, beginning with the summer 2005 show. The two shows take place annually at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Convention Center.

The Professional Convention Management Assn. Annual Meeting will take place for the first time in Seattle Jan. 13–16, 2008, at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center. The meeting will be held in Philadelphia in 2006 and in Toronto in 2007.

Service contractor TradeshowLogistics has signed new contracts with both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Natl. Assn. of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. The NACDA Convention will be held June 15–18 at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The AAP Natl. Conference & Exhibition will take place Oct. 8–11 at the Washington (D.C.) Convention Center.