“I think this has been one great idea to bring the buyers and sellers together.  It is much better than going to a tradeshow where you get interrupted in conversation…this way we have 40 minutes to chat with a customer or a salesperson…really we get a lot more out of it.”

“Its very productive time.  When I go to other tradeshows, you can never have these kind of in-depth one-on-one conversations because you are always being interrupted.”

“I really didn’t have any expectations coming in of what it would really be like, after the first meeting its just so good to sit down with these folks who you might know or see.”

“Here you have a set time that you are going to meet with somebody, you know what you’re going to be discussing, the vendors know who they are going to be talking to.”

“We didn’t know all the packaging they could supply to us, as well as they didn’t know all of our packaging needs and this arena gave us a chance to just sit down and they could ask us what we needed and we could explain it to them.”

“I can’t imagine spending two days with suppliers and covering as much territory and gaining as much positive ground in our working relationships as I did in these last two days.  It’s an exceptional experience.”

“The quality of the conversations is really good, really in-depth and more of a strategic nature than what you might have at a tradeshow or even a visit at your own facility or going to their place.”

“I met with people that I had never or probably never would have met with before which brought some new insight and new ideas.”