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EXPO Magazine’s 2006 Best New Show Award Winners
In addition to e-mail and online advertising, they ran about 100 print ads a year for both markets, all of which were traded. The cost: About $2 million, says Pretner.
The results: The first show attracted 60 percent of the top 200 U.S. retailers, including buyers from all 50 states and 83 countries, and featured 10 of the top 25 U.S. furniture manufacturers. Capitalizing on the success of the first show and lease-up of the building, World Market Center received $225 million in additional financing for construction of Phase Two, which is already fully leased, and future building at the complex. World Market Center launched the second Las Vegas Market in January 2006.
Lessons learned: Forecasting attendance was a moving target, say Pretner. World Market Center doubled its original estimates.
Coming Soon: SR to Release E-mail Exchanges ... (Not so fast...)
Pope Benedict XVI, left, and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I appear at a balcony of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to bless the faithful, respectively in Latin and Greek, after attending together the Divine Liturgy in the nearby Church of St. George in Istanbul, Turkey, today. Benedict XVI and Bartholomew later signed a joint agreement. You write the cutline. (AP Photo) Top Cutlines 1. BEN: Yo, brosef, nice hat. What's the inscription on it? BART: I don't know man. It's greek to me! -- Southwark Lad. 2. Proof that Liberace is in Heaven! -- James Bond, and: Ben and Bart prepare for their world tour, " Crusades II" -- Paul L. Ferguson. 3. In an effort to appeal to a wider audience, The Pope was on hand to tape a very special Christmas Edition of Friday Night Smackdown in which he crowned "Bad Azzzzz Bartholomew" the new "People's Champion" and Heavyweight Champion of the WWE.
Barack Obama faces uphill fight to win over Texas Hispanics
Obama spokesman Josh Earnest said those are the kind of divisions that Mr. Obama is showing he can overcome. "He ended up getting more white support in South Carolina than anyone thought he could. And in California and Georgia as well," Mr. Earnest said. He pointed out that Mr. Obama won the majority of Latinos in Illinois and 45 percent in Arizona last week. "The core of this campaign has been his talk about bringing this country together, and that's useful in preventing a lot of certain divisions that sometimes can crop up in Democratic primaries," Mr. Earnest said. To that end, the Obama campaign is reaching out to the Latino community. It has named political strategist Adrian Saenz – U.S. Rep. Ciro Rodriguez's chief of staff – its Texas campaign director.
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