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DALLAS, 9 July 2013 – Today the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) announces a new Guru Report, An Exhibit Manager’s Guide to Exhibit Staff Orientation, written by Candy Adams, CTSM, CME, CEM, CMP, CMM, a well-known exhibition industry veteran and owner of ‘The Booth Mom®’ Trade Show Consulting. The report analyzes why exhibit training […]

DALLAS, 27 June 2013 – The search for a successor to the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) President and CEO Douglas L. Ducate, CEM, CMP has begun in preparation for his departure at the end of the year. CEIR’s Board of Directors has retained Minnesota-based SearchWide, a full-service executive search firm which specializes in […]

DALLAS, 25 June 2013 – Douglas L. Ducate, president and CEO of the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, announced today at the Exhibition Services & Contractors Association’s Annual Summer Educational Conference that he will be stepping down by the end of this year from the CEIR post he has held for the last 15 years. Ducate, […]

DALLAS, 21 June 2013 – Today, the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) issued a report The Role of Exhibitions in Supporting Organizational Learning: Attending for Competitive Advantage which provides an overview on learning preferences, a snapshot of the prevalence of each type of learning preference and an overview of differences in importance placed on […]

DALLAS, 13 June 2013 – Steadied growth for 2013 is the outlook for the exhibition industry based on first quarter results reported today by the Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR). Data collected for the first quarter of 2013 CEIR Index was in line with CEIR forecast and reveals that the Total Index increased by […]

DALLAS, 11 June 2013 – The Center for Exhibition Industry Research (CEIR) announces the 2013 keynote speaker for Predict to be held 12 September in New York City will be Clay Shirky, adjunct professor for New York University's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program, where he teaches a course named “Social Weather.” The author of several books including […]