On the Move
Workin’ It
The Promotional Products Association International launched
www.promoideas.org. Corporate Audio Visual Services is now owned by Joe Guilderson. New Orleans won the International Dairy · Deli · Bakery Association’s 2008 conference. TBA Global Events partnered with Germany’s VOK DAMS Group to create a global network of event marketing services. The Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau re-launched visithoustontexas.com. Production Resource Group LLC launched PRG Video. Worktopia Inc. reached an agreement with Sabre Travel Network to be the first GDS-based direct booking engine enabling live booking of hotel and conference center meeting space. Scharff Weisberg installed Color Kinetics MX cove low-resolution LED columns and furnished a new moving light package for MTV’s “Total Request Live.” 3D Exhibits designed and fabricated a new trade show exhibit for the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau.
On the Job
Steve Overby was appointed national sales manager, National Sales Group, of AVW-TELAV. Patti Rouzie was named vice president, membership and meetings, of the National Beer Wholesalers Association. Ron Kelly was named general manager of TBA Global Events LLC’s Miami office. Rebecca Glassing, Ross Callahan and Lacey Siek joined Minneapolis, Minn.-based metroConnections’ Conference Services Division. AV Concepts hired Robert Rios as an exhibitor sales representative. Carrie Leinonen was promoted to director of marketing for MG Design Associates; Eileen Randle was hired as manager of client services. Freddie Georges Production Group hired Frank Ayala to head its design unit. Ronnie Caplan joined Canada’s Designing Trendz as event design director. Southwest Show Tech Inc. added Rebecca Kanter as an account executive. Shannon Plaster joined Access TCA’s Atlanta office as an account manager.
Awards and Achievements
The Meeting Manager owner Fabienne Hanks received a Women Who Mean Business Award from the San Diego Business Journal. Pactiv’s new Newspring TE-tainer container was voted the overall best packaging in the 2006 QSR Magazine/Foodservice & Packaging Institute Foodservice Packaging Awards. TripAdvisor.com named THEhotel at Mandalay Bay one of the world’s top 10 hip hotels. The 2006 Rose Bowl won the SportsTravel Award for Sports Event of the Year. The Corinthia Towers Hotel earned the 2006 award for Best Gastronomy Concept in the Czech Republic from Foodservice magazine’s Czech edition. Cummins Power Generation received the 2006 North American Diesel Engine Technology Leadership of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan. Diane Melton received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Magnetics Society’s Special Recognition Award for her decades of service.