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Event Planning Has Risen in the Ranks of Most Stressful Jobs

Velvet Chainsaw

This perfect storm significantly threatens the sustainability of associations and adds tremendous pressure to those who are organizing events to find ways to improve their financial performance. Event planners are experiencing sticker shock from rising costs for audiovisual, food and beverage, and other direct meeting expenses.

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Culinary Finance 101: Food Costs for Restaurant Owners

Planning Pod

Many restaurant owners today are struggling to avoid rising food costs eating into profits and hindering their overall growth. At Planning Pod, we’ve noticed an uptick in business owners asking for tips on lowering food costs while maximizing profits. Not sure how to calculate your food cost percentage for a specific dish?

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Re-incorporating Sustainability into the Future of Meetings

SmartMeetings

While meetings professionals and the hospitality partners they work with have been understandably focused on the health and safety of event attendees since the appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic, both groups realize the continued importance of incorporating sustainability measures into those events, as well. Food & Beverage.

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Budget Financial Meetings: Doing More with Less

SmartMeetings

Meetings in the financial and insurance sector require outside-the-box thinking. The economy was humming along before the coronavirus hit, but even then the majority of meeting planners in the financial and insurance industries were keeping their budgets in neutral. Financial and insurance meetings in the U.S.

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Sustainable Stand Design: Resource Design

Event Industry News

At Resource Design SA we design, develop and provide innovative sustainable solutions that offer the exhibitions industry eco-friendly financially viable alternatives. We are introducing this unique product to the UK market to meet the growing demand for more sustainable products. Financial value through Carbon Tax Rebate.

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Can Events Help Solve the Global Food Crisis?

PCMA Convene

It’s clear that our food systems will need to change — and change radically — if we are to safeguard the planet and feed a growing population. The good news is that new approaches, new partnerships, and new resolve — spurred on by the urgent threat food waste poses to the planet — are changing that. (Painting by Dennis Wojtkiewicz).

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How Canada is Shaking Up F&B Offerings

Smart Meetings

Many Canadian vendors have focused on elevated food and beverage options to stand out in an increasingly competitive global market for meetings and events. From a financial perspective, serving two meals instead of one is always going to be more expensive. Canada’s solution? Brunch is king.