Corporate Meetings & Incentives (CMI) Unveils First Annual "CMI 25" List of Industry's Largest Companies.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Penton Media's Corporate Meetings & Incentives([R]) magazine, the leading information source for the $40.3 billion corporate meetings and events industry, today unveiled its first annual "CMI (Computer-Managed Instruction) Using computers to organize and manage an instructional program for students. It helps create test materials, tracks the results and monitors student progress. 25" list of the industry's largest and most influential full-service independent meeting and incentive travel management companies focused on the corporate market. The first compilation of its kind, the CMI 25 demonstrates the growing trend of corporations to outsource meeting planning and booking. Profiles of the CMI 25 appear in the September issue of Corporate Meetings & Incentives and are available on the Web at www.meetingsnet.com. "Collectively, the CMI 25 booked more than 21,000 meetings and incentive travel programs in 2006 and well over 5 million room nights," said Barbara Scofidio, editor of Corporate Meetings & Incentives. "This is the first time that this type of information on the size of these companies has been available to inhouse corporate marketers and meeting planners." The CMI 25 companies, in alphabetical order, are: * Advantage Travel & Incentives Inc., Savage, Minn. * Ambassadors, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , Newport Beach Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. , Calif. * American Express Business Travel, New York * BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) The storage of numbers in which each decimal digit is converted into binary and is stored in a single character or byte. For example, a 12-digit number would take 12 bytes. See binary numbers. Meetings & Incentives, Chicago * BI, Edina, Minn. * BUCOM International Inc. , Chicago * Carlson Marketing Worldwide, Minneapolis, Minn. * Creative Group Inc., Appleton, Wis. * Enterprise Events Group, San Rafael, Calif. * Experient, Twinsburg, Ohio * Gavel gavel small mallet used by judge or presiding officer to signal order. [Western Culture: Misc.] See : Authority International Inc, Lincolnshire, Ill. * George P. Johnson, Auburn Hills, Mich. * Gray Consulting International Meetings & Incentives, Philadelphia * ITAGroup, West Des Moines, Iowa West Des Moines is a city in Polk, Dallas, and Warren counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 46,403; a special census taken in the spring of 2005 counted 51,744 residents. * MAC Meetings & Events, St. Louis, Mo. * Maritz Travel Company, St. Louis, Mo. * McVeigh Associates, Ltd., Amityville, N.Y. * Meeting Alliance, Robbinsville, N.J. * Meeting Expectations Inc., Atlanta, Ga. * Meridian Group Travel, Hazelwood, Mo. * MotivAction, LLC, Minneapolis, Minn. * Motivation Excellence Inc., Schaumburg, Ill. * R/A R/A Registered Agent R/A Return Air (air conditioning) R/A Radius of Action R/A Receive/Acknowledge Performance Group, San Francisco, Calif. * SDI (1) (Serial Digital Interface) A physical interface widely used for transmitting digital video in various formats. For electrical transmission, it uses a high grade of coaxial cable and a single BNC connector with Teflon insulation. Travel and Incentives, Chicago * USMotivation, Atlanta, Ga. The magazine's editors selected CMI 25 companies, based on a number of factors including the number of meetings and incentive travel programs managed in 2006, and the total number of room nights represented by those meetings and incentives. They also evaluated the number of full-time employees at each company, as well as the percentage of the company's revenues that came from organizing corporate meetings and incentives, versus association meetings or other sources. The magazine's Web site, www.meetingsnet.com, is the industry's leading online destination, providing original content, e-newsletters, trends, analysis, and how-to articles for the meetings and incentive industry. Corporate Meetings & Incentives is part of MeetingsNet (www.meetingsnet.com), a group of market-specific magazines that includes Association Meetings, Financial & Insurance Meetings, Medical Meetings, and Religious Conference Manager, which serve meeting and incentive planners. Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , the privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com. |
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