GTW REVIEW[SHOT Show 2017]
“Wewant all our atendees and sponsors to knowthat our dedication to listening
to their feedback, innovating at SHOT Showandworking hard to improve the show experience for everyonewill continue.”
Chris Dolnack,NSSF senior vice-president and chiefmarketing officer For buyers like Recon
Defense’s LisaMacLeod, the show was a big success. “Tis is a whole new level.But,
in spite of the huge crowd, the exhibitors we needed to find were easily located and we are very impressed with the courtesy of the staff.” Aguila Ammunition’s Josh
Sadler was pleased too. “We had a very productive
show.Our sales numbers are already up as a result and we’re excited about next year already.”
KEYMOMENTS
At the State of the Industry Dinner, the sold-out crowd of
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more than 2,200 were treated to the unique humour ofMike Rowe, star of the wildly popular Dirty Jobs television show and advocate of skilled trade workers. He had the crowd rolling in laughter formore than an hour. Other bigmoments were the
presentation of theNSSF Ken Sedlecky Lifetime Achievement Award to AlanMossberg,who guidedOFMossberg and Sons for decades, and theGrits GreshamShooting Sports Communicator Award to Ashley Hlebinsky, curator of the Cody FirearmsMuseumat the Buffalo Bill Center of theWest,writer andTV personality.
Monday saw some of SHOT’s
most popular pre-show events including the SHOT Show University, an education forum for retailers; Industry Day at the Range, an opportunity for media and buyers to experience hands- on testing of products; NSSF’s first Executive Management Seminar, providing business information to executives and rising managers; and the all-new Supplier Showcase, featuring more than 260 third-party OEMsuppliers that reached a crowd of nearly 3,000 designers, engineers, purchasing agents and others in the manufacturing sector.
ChrisDolnack continued:
“We are very pleased with the outcome of the 2017 SHOT Show, particularly how our new offerings like the Supplier Showcase were received. “We want all our attendees
and sponsors to know that our dedication to listening to their feedback, innovating at SHOT Show and working hard to improve the show experience for everyone will continue.” Preparations have already
begun for next year’s 40th anniversary SHOT Show,which will return to the Sands Expo, Las Vegas, fromJanuary 23rd to 26th, 2018.
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