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Article Thumbnail Canoe & Kayak show announcement sparks debate and OIA response
Jul 31, 2009
Like a tsunami, frustrations that have been swelling in the paddlesports market came crashing across this year’s Outdoor Retailer Summer Market show floor with a surprise announcement that Canoe & Kayak was launching a new paddlesports-only trade show. “I’ve been going to OR for nine years and listening to the laundry list of complaints from clients, and this year with 25 or so core paddlesports businesses backing out of Outdoor Retailer, something needed to happen,” Jim Marsh, publisher of Canoe & Kayak, told SNEWS®. On July 23, one day after Marsh announced the new show to be in Minneapolis Sept. 9-11, 2010, Frank Hugelmeyer, president and CEO of OIA, said in a response, "Both Outdoor Industry Association and Outdoor Retailer feel that a separate trade show at this time will split the industry when together we should concentrate more on growing the market.”
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Article Thumbnail Proposed merger between PIA and TAPS appears dead in the water – what next?
Oct 29, 2008
The Trade Association of Paddlesports (TAPS) board has overwhelmingly voted to terminate the unification process with the Paddlesports Industry Association (PIA). The Oct. 27 result, shared with SNEWS® shortly after the decision, dashes the hopes of many paddlesports industry members who believed this time a unification effort might just pass muster.
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