What Will You Learn in Asheville?


Ron Starner

IAMC Executive Director Ron Starner writes, "For those of you headed to Asheville, N.C., for the spring 2009 IAMC Professional Forum at the Grove Park Inn, there are at least three things you should know about the place you will soon visit:

  • Asheville in the springtime is truly one of the prettiest locations on God's earth.
  • The people of Asheville, and the staff of the 96-year-old, 512-room Grove Park Inn, are some of the friendliest you will ever meet.
  • The Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina are as richly steeped in history and tradition as any place in the U.S."
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IAMC People & Projects

To read about new and expanded facilities and other news on the IAMC member organizations listed below, click here.

Siemens' ICE-model train, which will be adapted to the China market
Source: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20090320-18139.html
  • General Electric
  • Hanesbrands
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Merck
  • Michelin
  • Northrop Grumman
  • Siemens

Caren Franzini, CEO, New Jersey Economic Development Authority

Since the last IAMC Dispatch Newsletter, IAMC has added five new Active members from such companies as Diebold, Kellogg and United Rentals; and new Associate members from New Jersey Economic Development Authority and Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP. This month, we report the new IAMC representatives from six existing Associate-member firms.

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How CREM Can Contribute to Corporate Cash Conservation

Think now about attending IAMC's Fall 2009 Professional Forum in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, entitled "Corporate Real Estate's Impact on the Balance Sheet." The IAMC Program Delivery Committee's objective for this program is to "present speakers and workshops that will help you create and conserve cash for your organization through consolidations, restructuring and disposals.

This article looks briefly at the business environment and then considers specific examples of how corporate real estate can contribute to corporate cost cutting and cash conservation illustrated with live suggestions taken from the IAMC LinkedIn Group's online discussions.

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IAMC Professional Forum Sponsors
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Research Center

Bio Buoys Missouri Economy

"The hot science happening around the University of Missouri's reactor is just one of hundreds of hotbeds of life science research happening across this diverse state in the middle of the country. In fact, it would be fair to say life sciences have been a part of Missouri's history for at least the last 200 years, as Lewis and Clark began their journey in what is now St. Louis, chronicling the flora and fauna they found in the new Missouri Territory that was part of the Louisiana Purchase." Read more.

To check out the list of sponsors for the Asheville Professional Forum, click here.

Program Update Brochure - pdf

IAMC's Fall 2009 Professional Forum in Minneapolis-St. Paul

Hot Off the Press - Minneapolis-St. Paul Advance Brochure: For the latest information on the venue, headquarters hotel, networking events, sponsors (to date) and how to register, click here..