MINNEAPOLIS -- In exactly four weeks, from April 19-21, the 2016 NATO Show will kick off at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, and there is still time for retailers that sell tobacco products to register. The NATO Show offers the industry’s best lineup of educational seminars on the most important tobacco topics that concern retailers and hundreds of exhibitor booths with the latest tobacco products on the market.
The NATO Show is the only national retail tobacco trade show that applies 100% of its proceeds to supporting NATO’s legislative efforts on the local, state and federal level. With NATO being the only national retail trade association fighting local, state and federal tobacco legislation, your attendance at the NATO Show directly supports the association’s grassroots opposition to proposed tobacco taxes and tobacco sales restrictions that cities, counties, states and Congress propose.
With the FDA working to finalize the deeming regulations that would extend the agency’s regulatory authority to cigars, pipe tobacco and e-cigarettes/vapor products, the FDA’s director of the Center for Tobacco Products, Mitch Zeller, will be one of the key speakers that retailers should hear at the NATO Show.
Other important educational seminars for convenience retailers include a presentation on the “State of Tobacco” by Bonnie Herzog of Wells Fargo Securities; an update on FDA regulations plus local and state tobacco legislation by NATO executive director Tom Briant; a seminar on “Marketplace Trends and Insights” by Don Burke of Management Science Associates; a session titled “A Study in Domestic Cigars” presented by Joe Teller of Swedish Match; and an in-depth look at “Maximizing E-Vapor Sales and Profits” with Keith Canning of Pine State Trading.
Whether you regularly attend the NATO Show or if you have not been to the show in the past several years, you need to plan to attend the upcoming 2016 NATO Show. It is truly the premier “all tobacco trade show” that benefits every kind of tobacco retailer.
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Registration: To register to attend the NATO Show, visit www.NATOShow.com and click on the “Attendee” tab. Then click “Get A Badge” to register online.
Airfare discount: All NATO Show attendees can get a discount on their flights using Delta Meeting Network to make their flight reservations. When booking online at www.delta.com/meeting, select “Book Your Flight” and enter the meeting code “NMMHZ″ in the box provided. Reservations may also be made by calling Delta Meeting Reservations at 800-328-1111, Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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