{"id":856,"date":"2008-06-02T18:39:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T02:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=856"},"modified":"2008-06-02T18:40:01","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T02:40:01","slug":"shoe-brands-wave-bye-bye-to-asr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"Shoe Brands Wave Bye Bye To ASR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soletechnology.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sole Technology<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.podiumdist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Podium Distribution<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c1rca.com\/C1RCA01\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">C1RCA<\/a><\/strong> have all decided that the <strong>fall ASR Show<\/strong> is irrelevant to their businesses and have announced that they will not be showing, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/business.transworld.net\/2008\/06\/02\/footwear-brands-pull-out-of-september-asr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Business<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sole Technology Senior VP of Marketing <strong>Don Brown<\/strong> says this is a move his company has been contemplating for quite some time. &#8220;We really just wanted to be more proactive in reaching out to our retailers and really engaging them in a way that we can&#8217;t at ASR,&#8221; Brown says. . . . In lieu of the September show, Sole Tech will be focusing its energy&#8212;and its half-a-million-dollar budget&#8212;on smaller regional shows, as well as having retailers visit the Sole Tech campus in Lake Forest, California.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a digital world, buying a bunch of space for your employees to sit around in for three days just doesn&#8217;t seem as sexy as it used to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/business.transworld.net\/2008\/06\/02\/footwear-brands-pull-out-of-september-asr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Business<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sole Technology, Podium Distribution, and C1RCA have all decided that the fall ASR Show is irrelevant to their businesses and have announced that they will not be showing, according to a story on Transworld Business. Sole Technology Senior VP of Marketing Don Brown says this is a move his company has been contemplating for quite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}