New Business Contracts
Rachelle Crum -- Tradeshow Week, 5/22/2006
The Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society recently announced that it would rotate its HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition to Chicago, beginning in April 2009. The four-day show, No. 64 on the Tradeshow Week 200, is expected to use more than 420,000 net square feet of exhibit space at McCormick Place and generate $33.6 million in direct expenditures for Chicago. It will rotate to New Orleans and Orlando in 2007 and 2008, respectively.
Former Shomex staffer Cristopher Levy recently created the marketing firm Encore Media Partners in Los Angeles. The company's first client is Levy's former employer, Shomex, which organizes recruiting expos.
CMP Media recently chose Metropolitan Exposition Services as the official service contractor for HBA Health & Beauty America, Sept. 12–14 at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Metropolitan will also service HBA's concurrent events, including Inside Beauty and Personal Care Ingredients & Technology Expo. Metropolitan has offices in New York and Las Vegas.
Please submit items for Show Biz to Rachelle Crum at rachelle.crum@reedbusiness.com.
