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Skyrocketing Costs Squeeze Event Budgets

Velvet Chainsaw

Credit: iStock Event organizers are feeling the pinch as industry suppliers, venues and transportation companies rebound from the pandemic. Following are considerations gathered from industry media, meetings market surveys and anecdotal reports from Velvet Chainsaw Consulting clients. in group hotel rates, with a 7.8%

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Energy Disruptors Unite Summit 2022

Canadian Special Events

This conference, produced by e=mc² events in partnership with Energy Disruptors, took place way back in September 2022 and won Best Conference at the 2023 Canadian Event Awards. The breakout sessions were held at the historic log cabin directly beside the main venue.

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Why Coke Launched a Proprietary ‘Sips & Sounds’ Music Festival in Austin

Event Marketer

We’re really hoping to connect with consumers, locally, in this Texas market as a way to localize our national and global Coke music campaigns. ” –Ryan Keen, Senior Marketing Manager, Coca-Cola Sips & Sounds was designed to provide “different types of value” for multiple aspects of Coca-Cola’s business.

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Best Catering Software of 2022 – Reviews of Top Solutions & CRMs

Planning Pod

Catering software has become one of the most popular ways to streamline operations among caterers, restaurants, hotels and event venues, and for good reason … because it enables venue and catering businesses to automate processes, create timesaving workflows and serve customers better with fewer staff. Top Features.

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Here’s Why Your Event Budget Needs to Increase in 2023

Endless Events

More than simply stretching our pre-existing 2022 budgets thin might be required in this climate. Of course, our event marketing budgets will need to be higher in 2023 than in 2021 or 2020. More events with more events mean more food, room blocks, entertainment, production equipment, and travel – and those all cost extra money.

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Confection Convention: Sweets & Snacks Expo Returns as First Post-Pandemic Food Show

Event Marketer

The Sweets & Snacks Expo—a gathering that draws the biggest brands in candy, chocolate and snack foods sold at major retailers—made a sweet return as the first post-pandemic food show, taking place June 23-25 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. The Sweets & Snacks Expo will return to Chicago in 2022 and 2023.

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Agriculture and Agritourism in Virginia Beach

Smart Meetings

Telling a Story Beyond its profit-making—which is substantial, the industry made $190 million in 2022 —the city’s agricultural industry is doing much more; its telling a story and educating its locals and visitors. We would sell stuff at markets and we would sell it through stores and sell it through wholesalers,” he says.