Subject: Food Marketing Institute

• Food for Thought

  May 10, 2006

• Supermarket Smackdown

  June 26, 2003

• The Hole Truth

  Doughnut chains barely glaze the Dallas market

  February 8, 2001

• Turns Out, All It Takes to Kill Dallas's Convention Business Is a Little Swine Flu Scare

  Something called the Food Marketing Institute was scheduled to hold two events in Dallas beginning May 4: a "Future Connect leadership development conference" on May 4-6, followed by a "MARKETECHNICS® technology event" May 5-8. According to Tradeshow Week, the events were to take place at the Hyatt Regency and at the Dallas Convention Center, and "show organizers had estimated about 3,500 food retailers, wholesalers and suppliers would have attended the event." Alas, the FMI's president and CEO

  April 30, 2009

• For the Second Time in As Many Days, the Dallas Convention Center Loses an Event

  Last December, we received word that come November '09, the Dallas Convention Center would play host for three days to a mammoth video-game expo -- the Southwest Video Game Expo, to be precise, which promised to fill more than 200,000 square feet of exhibit hall space with all manner of shiny shoot-'em-ups and fancy-pants gewgaws. It was part of a two-fer package, tied to something called Li-Fi, which promised to be "the largest consumer electronics and entertainment show in the Southwest." Alas

  May 1, 2009