All Baby & Child (ABC), producers of the ABC Kids Expo is pleased to announce changes in the front office and board of directors effective January 1, 2021. Aaron Pederson will be stepping down as Chairman of the board to assume the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) role overseeing trade show production and management at ABC. With this change, the board of directors has elected Lea Culliton of HABA USA to fill his remaining term as Chairman.
A veteran retailer of the Juvenile industry, Pederson of Kid's Stuff Superstore in Lincoln, Nebraska, joined the non-profit's board of directors in 2014, serving as a retailer representative. Chairmen since April 2019, Pederson has presided over a changing business climate in the B2B trade show industry and the quick pivot necessary to hosting virtual events after the canceled 2020 ABC Kids Expo slated for September 9-11 at the Las Vegas Convention Center due to COVID-19.
"Though I will miss working in my family's retails stores on the eve of our 40th anniversary, the opportunity to lead ABC through a shift in what trade shows of the future may look like is a challenge I look forward to," states Aaron Pederson. "I want to thank Lea and the entire board of directors for their trust in me to carry out a new vision that keeps the ABC Kids Expo positioned as the leading North American juvenile trade show."
Culliton, also a veteran of both toy and juvenile industries, is the President at HABA USA, where she's worked since 2002. Like Pederson, she joined the board of directors in 2014, representing manufacturers. Culliton brings a wealth of board and leadership experience to her new role, not only in her time with All Baby & Child but serving as a past director on the board of ASTRA, a leading trade association in the toy industry.
"I am deeply honored to accept the Chairman of the Board position for ABC Kids Expo. I'm excited to embrace the challenges that are occurring in the industry. My 18 years of experience in the Toy & Game industry focusing on specialty should bode well," said Lea Culliton. "I've always been the "early adapter" to change and enjoy the thrill of finding new ideas, new resources, and doing the research to see if those ideas would potentially work. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, but at least we learn along the way and are not standing still."
All Baby & Child looks forward to announcing a full lineup of events for 2021 while continuing to monitor the raising concerns around the spread and safety of COVID-19.
The board of directors would also like to thank Larry & Elizabeth Schur for their 17 years of dedication to the All Baby & Child organization since its inception and contributions to the juvenile industry at large.
"Larry and Elizabeth have been instrumental in building ABC Kids Expo into an internationally recognized show," Pederson said. "They have proven to be great friends, and for this, I wish them success moving forward.
About All Baby & Child
ABC Kids Expo (All Baby & Child), founded in March 2003, is a non-profit organization dedicated to producing events on behalf of the juvenile products industry. The corporation's main objective and purpose are to act as a business league that helps organize and manage trade shows to benefit juvenile product manufacturers, specialty store retailers, distributors, and manufacturers' representatives.
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致我们的ABC家人和朋友:
我们知道ABC对您中的大多数人来说非常重要,他们依靠这一年度盛会来推动您的业务向前发展,直接生产或了解新产品,并聚集在一起结识新朋友,增进友谊并开展有利可图的业务。
尽管我们坚信人脉关系可以发现,教育和激励我们的行业,但我们也致力于为社区创造一个安全的空间。
ABC 2020年秋季
ABC准备在生产ABC 2020时遵循所有安全措施和协议,以帮助确保我们所有行业合作伙伴和团队成员的安全。但是,由于包括拉斯维加斯在内的整个美国大部分地区病毒病例的增加,我们做出了艰难的决定,不继续推进今年9月的事件。
我们将与您保持联系,只有在一起我们才能确定何时再次安全召开下届ABC儿童博览会的行业。
下一步是什么?
我们意识到你们中的许多人都渴望恢复业务,我们很高兴在虚拟贸易展览平台上与您合作!
我们希望很快在下届ABC活动中与您相见,但我们鼓励您通过虚拟参与保持联系。详细信息即将公布!
对于那些在ABC 2020上为空间付费或已购买代金券的零售商的参展商,我们将尽快与您联系。感谢您在我们处理相关物流过程中的耐心配合。
同时,感谢您成为ABC社区的重要成员,我们希望您保持安全健康。
亚伦·佩德森
美国广播公司董事会主席
美国广播公司董事会和员工
在过去的几周里,我们一直在向您发送有关健康和健康的有用电子邮件,以及如果需要,可以在哪里寻求经济援助。我们希望您从我们那里收到这些信息丰富的信息。您也可以通过社交媒体(如 Facebook、Twitter 和 Instagram)与我们保持联系,因为我们正在努力让您了解 ABC 中发生的情况,并让您获得在此期间可以使用的有用信息。(如果您尚未收到电子邮件,您可能需要使用您喜欢的电子邮件地址与我们联系,以便我们保持联系)。
我们都期待着很快重新团结起来,并希望我们双方都能够积极适应我们面临的新挑战,并找到这些挑战带来的机遇。
随着世界各地发生了数千次活动取消和延期,我们开始收到来自一些活动参与者的通信,这些通信是关于ABC Kids是否会在今年秋天举行。此时的答案是"是"。活动将于9月9日至11日在拉斯维加斯会议中心如期举行。
事实上,已经推迟的节目已经或希望重新安排他们今年秋天的活动。这种重新安排给场地的约会和空间带来了很大的压力。虽然 ABC 为今年秋天争取了日期和空间,但我们需要确保我们拥有合适的空间,以满足所有参展商合作伙伴的需求。因此,我们请求您帮助确定空间量。我们要求所有计划参展的厂商,如果尚未注册,请现在就这样做。目前没有必要作出财政承诺。
请在:http://www.theabcshow.com/exhibit_form.asp
如果您希望现在能够选择展览空间,我们要求在选择空间之前支付押金金额。
在活动前的几个月和几周内,我们将与国家和地方卫生官员一起评估条件,以帮助确保我们所有的活动参与者都保持安全,并在现场提供在活动期间可能生效的任何建议或强制性协议或程序。我们还将告知活动日期是否有任何更改。
随着我们继续计划ABC今年9月,请知道,整个ABC团队祝你平安和健康,特别是在这个不确定的时期,我们期待着再次与您一起"行业团聚"今年9月!
请随时与我们联系, 让我们知道, 如果我们能提供帮助
董事会和团队成员 @ Abc.
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