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 Hollywood,
Fla.(8/9/02)— NASFM members will gather at the Hyatt
Regency Scottsdale at Gainey Ranch from Nov. 6-9, 2002, to confront
the future of store fixture manufacturing. Fixture manufacturers
will glimpse the future economy when Brian Wesbury, named the
top economic forecaster of 2001, by The Wall Street Journal,
presents his keynote address: “The New Era Strikes Back.”
Wesbury, the first vice president and chief economist of Griffin,
Kubik, Stephens & Thompson Inc., served as the Chief Economist
for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress (JEC) in 1995 and
1996. Motivational speaker, Michael Anthony Janke, an ex-Navy
SEAL and covert operator, will share his insights on business
and leadership in his keynote address, “The Predator’s
Mindset,” that shares lessons of survival and achievement
from the real jungle.
For
a closer look at the future of retail, Karen Schaffner, group
publisher, retail design and apparel, marketing/media and retail
division, VNU Business Publications USA, will present an update
on “Fixture Buying Trends & Forecasts.” In addition,
a panel of leading retailers will include:
- Melanie Bollinger,
Vice President of Strategic Sourcing, Washington Mutual
- Jennifer Riboli,
Vice President of Architecture, Washington Mutual
- Tim Stevenson,
Operational Vice President of Procurement and Pre-Construction,
Federated
- Richard Tao, President,
The May Design & Construction Co.
- Joe Weishar, Founder
& President, New Vision Studios Inc., Moderator
Round table topics will include: Lean Manufacturing—The
Next Phase; A Sane Approach to Contract Negotiating; Prospering
in the Recovering Economy; Developing Personnel for Your Company’s
Future Success; and Fixture Manufacturers’ Round Table:
Responding to Reverse Auctions.
For more information and to register online, visit www.nasfm.org
and click on 47th NASFM Convention. Note: only NASFM members
are eligible to attend; contact Catharine Scott at 954-893-7300
for membership information.
NASFM is an international, not-for-profit association representing
the store fixture manufacturing industry since 1956. The association's
membership includes more than 400 regular member companies operating
over 800 plants and employing more than 75,000 people worldwide;
an additional 200 industry suppliers are associate members.
NASFM members manufacture an estimated 85 percent of all store
fixtures produced in North America.
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