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Benjamin Spillman Gaming Guru - Page 17Big Las Vegas expo loses clients26 February 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- One of the most lucrative trade shows in Las Vegas has lost the hottest name in consumer electronics.
Apple -- maker of the iPod music player and the chic, Internet-browsing iPhone -- will no longer exhibit at the National Association of Broadcasters show, an annual television ... (read more)
Conventions find focus off the Strip19 February 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- When video game artists emerged from darkened meeting rooms at a recent convention in Las Vegas, it was the sunlight pouring into the conference room -- not the many martinis poured down their throats -- that was responsible for overwhelming their tender, blinking eyes.
The 700 ... (read more)
Investor urged to help with mob museum18 February 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The Hollywood-based owners of the Lady Luck casino could take an even bigger stake in downtown Las Vegas.
Leaders of CIM Group, the development company that last year bought into the shuttered Lady Luck, are in talks with the city of Las Vegas to put money toward a proposed mob ... (read more)
Talk is cheap, but togs aren't14 February 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- More so than New York's Fashion Week, the clothing shows of Las Vegas are considered a harbinger of what's coming to retail racks.
If the long faces in the Las Vegas Convention Center for Men's Apparel Guild in California, one of the clothing industry's most influential events, ... (read more)
Moulin Rouge gets help8 February 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- An investment firm with more than $4 billion in assets will take on one of the most vexing casino projects in Las Vegas, a revival of the long-defunct Moulin Rouge.
Republic Urban Properties LLC of Washington, D.C., will enter a joint venture with Moulin Rouge Development ... (read more)
World Market Center's new chief extols rival mart in ad1 February 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The rivalry between dueling furniture markets in Las Vegas and High Point, N.C., took a turn for the awkward this week.
A full-page ad in the trade publication Furniture Today featured the newly crowned CEO of World Market Center in Las Vegas singing the praises of High Point ... (read more)
Allegiant revenue soars despite fuel costs31 January 2008
LAS VEAGS, Nevada -- High oil prices didn't stop rural America from flocking to Florida's beaches or the bright lights of Las Vegas, if a 48 percent revenue increase for Allegiant Travel Co. is any guide.
Executives at Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air said Wednesday that a 39 percent increase in fuel ... (read more)
Las Vegas show deals with real estate fallout29 January 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- The housing market crash taught Ben Brown there's more than one way to say, "the check is in the mail."
And Brown, a Long Beach, Calif., furniture manufacturer, gets more than a little exasperated every time he hears a new excuse.
Brown and his wife, Barbara Emerson, are in Las ... (read more)
Las Vegas show endures housing slump28 January 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Organizers of one of the country's biggest furniture shows say registration for their upcoming Las Vegas market is up despite a national housing slump that's hammering the home furnishings industry.
On Monday the World Market Center opens its winter market, one of two major ... (read more)
Tourism slump may be afoot28 January 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Friday's fire at the Monte Carlo resort may have exposed a developing slump in the Las Vegas tourism market.
The fire means the 3,000-room Monte Carlo is uninhabitable for now, but guests should have no trouble finding alternate lodging.
Judging by the number of hotels with ... (read more)
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