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Pop-Up Events: The Next Trend for Associations?

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One company that’s found success is Target, which started hosting them back in 2002. More recently, it opened a 16,000-square-foot Target Wonderland in New York City for two weeks during last year’s holiday season. Our pop-up stores may be temporary, but they leave quite an impression.

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Oscars Foul-Up: Lessons From Notable Event Embarrassments

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“They had a pretty simple job to do and messed it up spectacularly,” branding expert Nigel Currie said of PwC in comments to the Los Angeles Times. They will be in deep crisis talks on how to deal with it.”. If there’s a takeaway here, it should be to follow the example of La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz. The takeaway?