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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2010: SNEWS BOB Awards
Aug 16, 2010
From the smallest to the largest, and everyone in between, exhibitors revved up their booth presentations at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2010. The SNEWS BOB (best of booth) Award winners is an eclectic group that's not to be missed. And, for the first time, we asked the SNEWS Youth Reporting Team members for their picks.
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2010: SNEWS BOB Awards
Feb 3, 2010
Hundreds exhibited at Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2010, but only one can earn the coveted Top BOB Award from SNEWS. See which company snagged the top spot and the others that received kudos for their display ingenuity.
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2009: SNEWS BOB Awards
Aug 5, 2009
A company’s booth reflects its personality and its core values, while also serving the needs of its customers. Just as important as the showcase for new gear and product, a trade show also shows off the efforts of many exhibitors to upgrade, redesign and otherwise rethink their booth footprints, constructions and presentations. We at SNEWS® like to acknowledge those efforts. We are proud to present the winners of the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2009 SNEWS Best of Booths (BOB) Awards, in recognition of the most successful of these endeavors.
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2009: SNEWS BOB Awards
Feb 13, 2009
A company’s booth reflects its personality and its core values, while also serving the needs of its customers. Just as important as the showcase for new gear and product, a trade show also shows off the efforts of many exhibitors to upgrade, redesign and otherwise rethink their booth footprints, constructions and presentations. We at SNEWS® like to acknowledge those efforts. We are proud to present the winners of the ORWM 2009 SNEWS Best of Booths (BOB) Awards, in recognition of the most successful of these endeavors.
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Summer Market '08: SNEWS BOB Awards
Aug 20, 2008
It's not surprising that, at the 2008 Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, the number of exhibitors debuting new booths could be counted on one hand. While it didn't stop exhibitors from upgrading and remerchandising their presentations in very unique ways, it did reduce costs and the waste connected with trade show exhibits.
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Trade Association News

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Article Thumbnail Health & Fitness Business 2010: Hall expands to meet exhibitor needs, FIDA plans meeting
Aug 11, 2010
Health & Fitness Business show management has expanded the show floor to accommodate exhibitor demand at the Sept. 22-23 event, plus stay tuned for details about a Fitness Industry Dealers Association town hall meeting. More show news here to keep you informed.
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Article Thumbnail First fitness dealer ‘Cost of Doing Business Survey’ seeks responses, get results for your time
Aug 4, 2010
Find out how your business stands in relationship to the entire fitness industry by taking the NSGA’s first “Cost of Doing Business Survey” for fitness dealers and retailers -- one of the first tasks in its operation of the new fitness dealers association. Unless you work in a vacuum, you’ll want to respond since a personalized report will then be free.
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Article Thumbnail Fitness dealers association launches -- by NSGA and SNEWS-supported
Jul 19, 2010
Just in time for the approaching busy season and a changed trade show structure, fitness dealers of all kinds will have a new resource just for them for assistance and networking -- financial and educational: the “Fitness Industry Dealers Association” or FIDA.
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Article Thumbnail OIA joins coalition of major U.S. companies to push for climate, energy legislation
Jun 4, 2010
OIA has joined BICEP, a coalition of major American businesses, to push for a comprehensive climate and energy bill.
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Article Thumbnail National Physical Activity Plan poised as long-term solution: You can be a part
May 10, 2010
This newly launched National Physical Activity plan is more than just a statement and a shaking finger about what you SHOULD do; instead, it is a collaboration that will work on helping to implement plans and programs. SNEWS talked to organizers to find out how businesses, brands and retailers can get involved.
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS Youth Team: Three CEOs weigh in with youth reporters
Sep 1, 2010
SNEWS Youth Reporting Team members interviewed top executives of three large companies -- Prana, adidas and Vibram -- at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2010 about issues that are most important to youth: sustainability, price, quality, the effect of tough times, health and, of course, style.
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Summer Market ’10: Products that are The New, The Cool, The Quirky too, Pt. 2
Aug 30, 2010
Sometimes we just all simply say “wow” about a few products we see at the shows. These are The New, The Cool and, sometimes, the Quirky. What is a “wow?” Sometimes it’s the really fresh look by a company at how a piece is executed. Here in the second of two parts are our picks for this year’s ORSM new, cool and quirky in food, softgoods, gadgets, dog products and sleeping bags.
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Article Thumbnail Health & Fitness Business 2010: Exhibitors and retailers back at co-located show, SNEWS TV launches
Aug 30, 2010
A month away, the Health & Fitness Business Expo preps for its first co-location with Interbike in Las Vegas Sept. 22-23 – with more exhibitors and full access to the Interbike halls and education. Plus, SNEWS TV launches!
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Summer Market ’10: Hydration packs with a few tweaks, too
Aug 27, 2010
Not to be ignored amidst the flurry over bottles, hydration pack companies had a few tricks up their sleeves too, including new looks in reservoirs and pack design concepts. SNEWS took a look at a few highlights.
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS Youth Team: Q&A with teen mountaineer Matthew Moniz
Aug 27, 2010
Matthew Moniz is one 13-year-old who has already started accumulating quite a climbing resume, having reached the summits of several high-altitude peaks. Besides a passion for the outdoors, he's also raising funds and awareness for pulmonary arterial hypertension. Members of our SNEWS Youth Reporting Team interviewed Moniz to get his take on how to get more youth recreating outdoors.
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Article Thumbnail Fitness industry collaboration meeting minutes: Comments sought, next meeting to be planned
Apr 14, 2008
The interest is there for the fitness industry to collaborate on a broader level to promote the common message. What the group will need is an advisory board or some leadership that has the time to develop an action plan. SNEWS® is very willing to be the communication platform to keep any effort moving. To read the minutes from the Collaboration meeting on March 6, read on...
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Article Thumbnail Industry View: Challenges facing fitness, possible solutions, call for collaboration
Feb 11, 2008
The SNEWS® View column is an occasional editorial by the editors at SNEWS®, but we also welcome guest editorials on topics pressing to our industries. This one is offered by Steve Lindenau, president of Diamondback Fitness, about the current state of the fitness industry, the competition and challenges we face, and some solutions that could help the industry move forward, including the suggestion for industry-wide collaboration on some kind of industry advisory board.
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