At a trade show she had spotted rectangular-shaped eye pillows that supposedly eased stress and lulled insomniacs.
An appearance at a trade show in Charlotte, North Carolina flopped for lack of well-heeled buyers.
The result is a trade show for farmers, where standards of excellence are determined and advertised.
"This has sometimes seemed more like a trade show than a summit, " complained Barry Steinhardt of the A.C.
The company debuted the 3DS at a trade show earlier this year.
Company A learned this lesson the hard way after hiring a consultant to develop their marketing collateral for a trade show.
Fashion Week used to resemble a trade show more than a party, says Simon Doonan, creative ambassador-at-large for Barneys New York.
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So he waits for a catalyst--an executive's negative comment at a trade show, or maybe missed quarterly numbers--and shorts the stock again.
Intel unveiled the first examples at a trade show in Taipei this week, and said that it is already having problems meeting demand.
If you can find some though, even if it's at a trade show, we recommend you take the opportunity to have a listen.
Strolling down the aisle of a trade show in the area of metal fabrication, I chatted with the owner of a cost-accounting software company.
Director of Municipal Services Debra D'Orleans said the idea came at a trade show when a supplier said they could have trucks in any colour.
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Visit a trade show or convention from a very different industry.
When we attend a trade show, we typically spend an entire week jumping from one exhibition hall to the next, surrounded by thousands of suit-clad corporate execs.
However, the internet has afforded us the ability to make more connections in a single day than attending a trade show or professional networking event once a year.
And you certainly hear stories about lost technology because a product you were planning on unveiling at a trade show somehow someone reverse-engineered or trade secrets have been stolen.
Bell was peddling almost all his bagels and bialys to stores on the East Coast until he met Kanji Kitamura, a Japanese distributor, at a trade show in 1998.
And that means the card, pocketed at a trade show in Paris, gets added to a pile of intriguing but unsung gizmos that form the basis of Schacht's business.
Even Jupiter CEO Alan Meckler has recently started publishing a surprisingly personal blog about Jupiter's effort to launch a trade show to rival Comdex, the troubled annual technology trade show.
For example, if our laptop were to fail at a trade show, being able to access the camera menu and switch to our phones or tablets would make a great backup.
On the other hand, suppose that Company A describes the invention in detail (or in more formal terms, provides a disclosure) at a trade show, before a disclosure or a filing by the second company.
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Jeff, whose job has been to figure out how to get the inventions made and then mass-produced, recalled how he confronted, at a trade show, a large competitor whom he said had ripped off the stroller.
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Each day the newspaper is delivered to 1 million hotel rooms in the U.S. For a customer at a trade show, hundreds of issues were wrapped with "belly bands" (a branded ribbon of paper encircling each newspaper).
So if an inventor shows her invention working at a trade show, demonstrates it for an angel investor group or offers a single unit for sale, it will not receive a patent even if she applies the next day.
He had recently attended a trade show and mentioned to me that the keynote speaker, a dynamic executive and head of HR for a publicly traded company, referred in the speech he gave to the importance of his personal yoga practice.
Example: You and your boss return from a trade show in Chicago and you write a quick, enthusiastic note to the top brass saying how much you learned at the show, mentioning that your boss did great and you accomplished your goals and more.
Recently, at a trade show, I was talking with someone at the booth next door, and he told me that in his personal opinion, all women who get to executive levels at companies and top positions of power must walk, stand and poise themselves like men.
Thinking back to the days before Sept. 11, 2001, I remember we were still in a recession that began in March and many at a trade show I was attending were less than positive about the prospects for their companies and the retailing business as a whole.
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