STAFDA to meet in Denver Nov. 9-11
By Industrial Distribution staff -- Industrial Distribution, 10/1/2008 10:15:00 AM
The Specialty Tools & Fasteners Distributors Assn. will hold its 32nd Annual Convention & Trade Show Nov. 9-11 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.As of October 1, more than 900 exhibit booths had been sold and convention planners were expecting nearly 5,000 attendees at the three-day show.
This year's General Session keynote speaker is Fox Business News anchor Stuart Varney, who will speak on “21st Century America: A New Day in Politics, Culture and Business.”
Mona Zinman, co-CEO of PrimeSource Building Products, will deliver STAFDA’s Associate State-of-the-Industry speech.
“During this economic slowdown, it's important we retain and strengthen our contacts with colleagues and vendors,” says STAFDA president Rick Peterson, who is also president of All-West Fasteners Inc. of Seattle and will deliver the distributor State-of-the-Industry report in Denver. “[STAFDA members] are all in this together and together we'll come out of it.”
Workshop speakers will include Ernie Doud, president of Doud Hausner & Associates; memory expert Bob Gray; John Mackay, president of the Mackay Research Group; and Michael Marks, president of Indian River Consulting Group.
The STAFDA Tech & Consultant’s Fair is slated for Sunday, Nov. 9. Among the scheduled exhibitors are Activant, Distribution One, FOCUS Graphics and Rubber Tree Systems.
Speakers for the Tech & Consultant’s Fair workshops include Cyndi Sax, a principal at Caliper Assessment Inc., and Steve Epner, founder of Brown Smith Wallace Consulting Group.
The Trade Show takes place Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 10 and 11.
The November issue of INDUSTRIAL DISTRIBUTION will feature a special guide to the STAFDA Convention. For more information, go to www.stafda.org.
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