Merchandising and Marketing

Spree Vegas 2008: Show Highlights

Record numbers of exhibitors and attendees gathered in Las Vegas for three days of deal-making, networking and social events during Specialty Retail Report's fourth annual Specialty Retail Entrepreneur Expo—our biggest and best show ever!

SPREE West San Jose: Show Highlights

Hundreds of attendees and exhibitors made their way to San Jose for the three-day Specialty Retail Entrepreneur Expo & Conference show in mid-June—where the deals were made!

SPREE East Highlights from Baltimore

A look at the people and products that made this year’s SPREE East Expo a smorgasboard of networking and deal-making.

SPREE West Highlights

A look at our successful west coast show, the Specialty Retail Entrepreneur Expo & Conference in Long Beach, CA.

Thank you to everyone for a fabulous SPREE West show, July 25-27 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, CA! More than 1,000 attendees and exhibitors came together for this exciting Expo & Conference. As expected, a great many attendees were from the west coast, but many east coast retailers, product suppliers and leasing managers made the trip, and some attendees came from as far away as China and the Middle East.

Here are a few highlights from the show, excerpted from our SPREE Breaking News page, which broadcast during the Expo.

SPREE East Highlights

The second annual Specialty Retail Entrepreneur Expo and Conference (SPREE) show—the first of two SPREE shows scheduled for 2006—was held May 4-6 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. The premier sponsor for SPREE East was Happy Feet/Animal Feet. Associate sponsors were Obey Your Body and Fanmats.

On A Spree

From the writer's notebook: A good time was had by all. And—according to attendees and exhibitors—a profitable one, too. Here are highlights of this year's SPREE expo and conference, and what we can look forward to at next year's SPREE shows.

Take Note!

Attending a trade show is a great way to find new products and spot industry trends. If you're like most people, though, you get hit with more information than you can handle.

After the Trade Show

Trade shows are great for discovering new products and making new contacts. But all too often, people who attend them come back to mountains of backed-up work and soon forget to follow up with vendors and personal contacts, and fail to capitalize on trends and industry information they learn at the show.

Partnering for Innovation

More than a thousand retail professionals are expected to descend on Baltimore for this year's ICSC Short-Term Specialty Retail Conference & Expo. Here's an advance peek at the industry's premier trade show.