FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 2004

All Platinum & Gold SGIA ’05 Sponsorships Reserved - Other High-Profile Sponsorship Opportunities Still Available

FAIRFAX, VA - Eight leading industry companies have committed to serve as Platinum or Gold Sponsors at SGIA ’05, the Specialty Graphic and Imaging Association’s 2005 Convention & Exposition scheduled for September 28-October 1 in New Orleans, LA.

Platinum Sponsors for SGIA ’05 are 3M (St. Paul, MN), Océ North America (Chicago, IL), VUTEk, Inc. (Meredith, NH), and Avery Dennison Graphics Division North America (Painesville, OH). Gold Sponsors include Scitex Vision America Inc. (Marietta, GA), InteliCoat Technologies (S. Hadley, MA), US Screen Printing Institute (Tempe, AZ), and Bayer Films Americas (Pittsburgh, PA).

SGIA ’05 sponsorships are employed to increase the quality of the Convention experience for attendees while reducing their costs.

While Platinum and Gold Sponsorship packages no longer are available, other sponsorship opportunities still are available. Among them: the John M. Crawford Golf Tournament, lobby towers, the e-mail pavilion, ads in the exposition directory and the display of corporate banners. In addition, custom sponsorships can be created - from signage on tote bags and water coolers to business card-sized ads on the SGIA ’05 Exposition Map & Guide to New Orleans.

“Available only in limited numbers, SGIA ’05 sponsorships provide tools to build one’s corporate presence in New Orleans,” says Sylvia Hall, SGIA’s Vice President for Conventions and Conferences. “These opportunities are the way to make a great show extraordinary.”

SGIA Is Leading a New Generation of Imaging Professionals-“Specialty imaging” comprises digital imaging, screen printing and the many other imaging technologies SGIA members use, including those they’ll tap in the future. These are the imaging processes and technologies employed to create new products and to enhance existing products including point-of-purchase displays, signs, advertisements, garments, containers, and vehicles.

To see what booths are still available, prospective SGIA ’05 exhibitors and sponsors are asked to log directly onto www.sgia.org/sgia05/floorplan. For more information - or to reserve and contract for available space - please contact Sylvia Hall at Association headquarters: Telephone: 888.385.3588. E-mail: Sylvia@sgia.org.

SGIA ( Specialty Graphic Imaging Association)
10015 Main Street
Fairfax, VA 22031-3489
Phone: 888-385-3588
E-Mail: Sylvia@sgia.org
Website URL: www.sgia.org/sgia05/floorplan