SMG highlighted the success of its Event Innovation Team at the company’s annual management meeting held recently in Philadelphia. Since its inception one year ago, 126 internally produced special events have taken place at SMG-managed facilities in the United States, exceeding expect

One of the live entertainment industry’s biggest professional events, the 39th Annual Event & Arena Marketing Conference, was held recently in Las Vegas, and the SMG staff at Van Andel Arena® in Grand Rapids, Michigan, did not come home empty handed as their “Thank You Cards for

Claude Molinari, general manager of SMG/Cobo Center, announced the Cobo Center operations team have taken janitorial services in-house. The new department was created just prior to the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) and is headed by Cedric Turnbore, Cobo Center directo

Most of my interaction with Dittie Guise came when she was the COO of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority (PCCA), a position she assumed in late 2004 after working at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. The conversations took place by telephone and e-mai

Before Michigan State University and the University of Georgia played a recent exhibition basketball game at the SMG-managed Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a check for $339,448.90 was presented to representatives from the American Red Cross. The game became a sudden and la