Produce associations announce plans to merge next year
Produce Marketing Association, United Fresh Produce Association to spend coming months building new organizational structureBurnsThe $26 million-revenue Produce Marketing Association and the $10 million-revenue United Fresh Produce Association have agreed to merge, the two groups announced March 31.
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21 years of guiding future leaders
DELP scholars stand with program manager Marilu Morada at the 2016 ASAE meeting in Salt Lake City. From left to right: Nabil El-Ghoroury, Rick Burt, Morada and Desirée Knight.April 2, 2021
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Automation association unites groups under core brand
BurnsteinThe four associations that make up the Association for Advancing Automation plan to unite under A3's single brand—a move acknowledging how much the robotics and automation industry has evolved in the nearly 50 years since the first of these four groups was founded.
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In-person meetings contend with carbon emissions concern
As more research looks at meeting industry's contributions to climate change, some groups take steps to reduce their overall impactLevinCOVID-19 may have forced many associations to move their events online, but it could be another societal problem that proves a challenge for some groups in getting members to return to in-person events.
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Pandemic disruption presented challenges, opportunities to interim association leaders
Some temporary leaders—including those not initially candidates for the full-time job—have had the chance to prove their valueGablesThe pandemic put many CEOs in the hot seat—including some interim CEOs who had been promoted from within the association staff in order to keep the trains running while the board conducted a search for a new chief executive.
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Departures and Arrivals (April 2, 2021)
O'BrienCEO DeparturesCehelsky to depart Universities Research Association
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