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What: Tobacco Plus Expo
When: January 24-26, 2017
Where: Las Vegas Convention Center
How:
Why: To build your business!
Reinventing TPE
I n October, Tobacco Plus Expo
(TPE) announced that Thomas
Briant, executive director of the
National Association of Tobacco
Outlets (NATO), would help present two
educational sessions at the trade show. The
development is just one of the innovations
being introduced at TPE 2017, which has
added a series of compelling sessions, panel
presentations and roundtable discussions
geared toward helping prepare retailers and
manufacturers for the challenging regula-
tory path ahead.
“Now that NATO recently elected to
focus its efforts primarily on fighting lo-
cal anti-tobacco initiatives, TPE is an
excellent foundation to communicate our
message to the thousands of retailers that
come to the show,” says Briant of NATO’s
participation in the annual show’s educa-
tional sessions. “Together we can prepare
them with the tools and techniques ne-
cessary to succeed and thrive in this new
tobacco era.” Two NATO-generated ses-
sions will focus on helping independent
tobacco retailers learn about current local,
state and federal legislation, and learn
how to become engaged and respond to
these threats.
TPE will also provide a home for
NATO headquarters on the expo floor
where all show attendees—from buyers for
large chains to the owners and managers
of independent tobacconists, smoke shops,
vapor shops and c-stores—can learn how
to help change the laws that will directly
affect their businesses.
“TPE is proud to have the expert guid-
ance of Tom Briant and we welcome the
entire NATO team and its retail members
to further strengthen and solidify TPE as
the best business-to-business show in the
tobacco industry,” says Jason Carignan,
chief marketing officer of Kretek Inter-
national, parent company of TPE. “The
addition of our all-day conference track is
an important step in the show’s evolution
that will help educate retailers and manu-
facturers for a changing regulatory and
competitive landscape.” The show’s lineup
of educational sessions will focus on the
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