- GLFA holds first press-side educational meeting
More than 90 converting and package-printing professionals attended the first press-side meeting of the Great Lakes Flexo Assn. (GLFA) held Feb. 26 at Paper Converting Machine Co., Green Bay, WI. Established almost two years ago, GLFA offers educational conferences for the Midwest flexo industry. The recent event at PCMC was ......
- South Carolina winter training conference draws nearly 200
The 18th annual South Carolina Automatic Merchandising Association Winter Training Conference drew close to 200 attendees to the 3-day professional development and educational meeting held Jan. 26 to 29, at the Doubletree Guest Suites, Charleston, S.C. Of that total, 175 were owners, managers or support personnel for vending operator members.
- Finding the programs you need to achieve
ABWA provides a variety of lifelong learning opportunities for members, from continuing education credit to leadership programs. However, it's on the local level at monthly meetings where members can access a greater number of professional programs. But how do chapter, council and network committees translate the various needs of members ......
- Now What?
An exclusive roundtable of industry experts debate the future of meetings, travel and business communications ......
- Newsbites
The Great Lakes Flexo Association (GLFA) will make donations of $2,000 each to Fox Valley Technical College (Appleton, WI) and Ditrolio Flexo School (Broadview, IL) at its July 21 meeting at the Paper Converting Machine Co. demonstration center in Green Bay, WI. Both academic institutions have supported the GLFA since ......
- Power in numbers: industry associations convene to
share ideas and develop a vision for the future.
In a groundbreaking meeting, leaders from 11 associations got together in March to brainstorm new ways in which they could work together to strengthen the grainbased food industry. The first-of-its-kind meeting was called by the American Bakers Association (ABA) to be an educational meeting through which bakers, salted-snack producers, millers, ......
- NACUFS in the Big Easy
HEADNOTE COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY HEADNOTE NACUFS members network and strategize for the upcoming year. National Association of College and University Food Services members treated themselves to flaming Bananas Foster, Cajun-spice boiled crawfish and chicory coffee and beignets while networking with peers and attending a host of educational sessions at the ......