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There were plenty of opportunities for good deeds at this year’s EPIC, including Hike for Hope, a full-day, post-show event that raised nearly $10,000 for City of Hope. Organizers
are still accepting donations if you’d like to swell the coffers one more time.
• Several sessions on EPIC Business Essentials, the newly
formed combination of Independent Stationers’ and TriMega’s
national account programs aimed at leveraging the best-ofthe-best from both groups to create a powerful new platform
to win big in the regional, multi-geographic and national
account space.
• Keynote speaker and business thought leader Peter Sheahan,
who offered attendees an innovative, insightful roadmap on
ways to bring new value to their customers.
• A full day of industry education and training focusing
on key industry topics such as the implications of the
proposed Staples-Office Depot merger, trends in janitorial
and breakroom products, dealer re-branding, public sector
opportunities for dealers and more.
• A pre-show EPIC Sales Boot Camp, featuring a full-day
workshop from sales training veteran Paul Bramson on the
key elements of an effective consultative selling process.
• Several opportunities for attendees to do good in a big
way, including Pack for Kids, sponsored by TriMega’s
NEXT group, as well as donations by EPIC 2015 exhibitors
who contributed products to provide school supplies to
students most in need. Finally there were several fundraising
opportunities for City of Hope.
NOVEMBER 2015
“This year’s EPIC offered an outstanding opportunity for the independent dealer community to come together to take stock of
our industry, see how we’re doing and explore together how we
can be doing better,” said IS member Mark Brackett of Office
Source 360, Exeter, CA. “It was a really good show!”
Commented TriMega member Jerry Gibbs of J & E Office City in
Maplewood, MO, “This was another great meeting from IS and
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EPIC Show and ECi Connect Conference
to Co-Locate in 2016
In a move that brings further consolidation to the office
products industry’s events calendar, IS and TriMega
announced in Las Vegas they will co-locate next year’s
EPIC event with ECi’s 2016 Connect user conference.
EPIC 2016 will take place November 1-3 at the Gaylord
Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, with
ECi’s 2016 Connect Conference running November 2-4 at
the same location.
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