Coffee Fest Heads to Big Apple in March

Wednesday, January 6th 2010 @ 7:22 PM

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Coffee Fest Heads to Big Apple in March

Seattle, Wash. – January 6, 2010– Coffee Fest’s signature Executive Summit headlines Coffee Fest as the traveling specialty coffee show makes its long-awaited trip to the Big Apple region, setting up shop at the Meadowlands Exposition Center on March 5-7, 2010.

The Executive Summit, a full-day event held on Thursday, March 4, precedes the three-day show, and culls from the industry’s top professionals to provide a bevy of networking and skill-building opportunities that attendees can apply directly to their business bottom line. The morning is devoted to educational sessions and the afternoon is dedicated to roundtables and informational sessions. A lunch banquet divides the day.

“The New York area is a burgeoning center of coffee culture,” says Greg Hartlein, Coffee Fest CEO. “Our Executive Summit pulls in talent from the Metropolitan New York area in an effort to create applicable lessons and take-aways for the participants. We look at the summit as a symbiotic arrangement – our presenters and attendees – peers -- learn from each other in a collaborative arrangement.”

Be In The Know

Summit attendees can immerse themselves in topical sessions that speak to the issues they grapple with on a daily basis: Business Essentials to Survive the Economic Firestorm; Strategies for Asset Protection, Cost Cutting and Employee Retention; and Social Media: How to Harness its Power to Build Your Business. Roundtable networking session topics include: Debt Management - Risks and Rewards of Various Financing Options; and The Current Economic Firestorm, When and How We Will Emerge; and Staffing and Labor Management.

Small Business Associaiton (SBA) programs and case studies will be reviewed by the New Jersey Small Business Development Council,  and A Fresh Marketing Strategy for This Economy will set attendees off on the right foot. For a complete schedule of classes, sessions and instructors, please go to our website, www.coffeefest.com.

Midwest Stop-Over

When summer rolls around, it’s off to the Midwest, where Coffee Fest sets up shop in Minneapolis, Minn., on June 4-6, 2010. To register for the Meadowlands or Minneapolis show, please go to our web site at  www.coffeefest.com.

About Coffee Fest

Coffee Fest has been bringing specialty coffee, gourmet tea and alternative beverage industry professionals together since 1992 when the show first got its start as a consumer coffee festival in Seattle. Since 1998, “the little coffee show that could,” Coffee Fest has gathered coffee retailers, roasters, distributors and manufacturers together for thrice annual trade shows to help attendees build and refine their businesses, get the first peek at new products and remain current with coffee and tea industry trends. For more information about all the shows, go to www.coffeefest.com

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