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All Things Organic to collocate with Natural Products Expo East |
03.05.2010
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BOSTON-Starting this fall, All Things Organic will collocate with Natural Products Expo East here.
In a March 4 statement, the Organic Trade Association, organizers of All Things Organic, stated that the conference will collocate with Expo East, a partnership that will extend for at least seven years.
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"This exciting new partnership unites the business and educational strengths of All Things Organic and Natural Products Expo East," said Christine Bushway, OTA's executive director, in a prepared statement. "It will better serve the organic business community by increasing traffic, buyers and attendance at the trade event. Expo East will become the organic hub of the nation."
Beginning with this year's event Oct. 13-16 in Boston, All Things Organic will be the branded organic pavilion for North American organic companies exhibiting at Expo East to distinguish organic businesses from other natural companies at the show. Also, Organic Products Expo-BioFach America will continue to be collocated at Expo East.
The All Things Organic conference program will be incorporated into the Expo East educational programs as a dedicated organic session track developed by OTA. Other OTA events are being incorporated into the schedule. OTA's Annual Meeting will be held at Expo East, and OTA's Leadership Awards Dinner and Dance will be held Oct. 15.
According to the statement, New Hope Natural Media, which organizes Expo East, will work with companies that had signed up to exhibit at the All Things Organic 2010 Trade Show, originally scheduled in June for Chicago.
OTA held the first All Things Organic(tm) Conference and Trade Show in 2001 in Austin, Texas, which also hosted the 2002 and 2003 events. In 2004, OTA moved the conference and trade show to Chicago, where it was collocated with shows including the National Association of the Specialty Food Trade's Spring Fancy Food Show, which was discontinued in 2008. Through last year, the show was in Chicago.
OTA is the membership-based business association for organic agriculture and products in North America. Its members include growers, shippers, processors, certifiers, farmers' associations, distributors, importers, exporters, consultants, retailers and others.
New Hope Natural Media is a division of Penton Media Inc., a business-to-business media company.
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