When we made an announcement about a new industry event in a piece we titled, New Event Planned for 2010: Eastern Produce Council and PRODUCE BUSINESS Announce The New York Produce Show And Conference, we were not prepared for the avalanche of support. In the month since the announcement, despite Christmas and New Year’s Day intervening, we quickly sold over half the exhibit floor, more than 120 companies.
Although, of course, much of this support for the show came from industry members looking to support the members and staff of the Eastern Produce Council and the team that puts out PRODUCE BUSINESS, PerishableNews.com and, of course, the “Pundit” — the business case for the show is overwhelming.
In fact a new report from The United States Conference of Mayors makes the case pretty dramatically.
The report includes a chart that is titled, “If U.S. Metro Economies Were Nations.” We’ve excerpted the top 15 listings in the chart you see aside this article and it shows that only the New York metro area would rank as one of the top 15 economies in the world if metro areas were counted like countries. That means New York Metro has a bigger economy than, say, India, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Australia, South Africa. In fact, if it were a country, New York Metro would have the 12th largest economy in the world.
To read the rest of the story, please go to: Jim Prevor's Perishable Pundit.