PSAV to acquire Encore from Freeman

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...run by private equity.
 
Yeah... popcorn. I think this calls for popcorn.
 
Welcome to the hotel sir. Small popcorn is $12.00, medium $19.00and the large is $35.00. May I recommend the large!
"Should you wish to bring in your own popcorn, you may do so, but we'll charge you an 'accommodation fee' that will make it even more expensive than buying from us. Have a good day."
 
"Should you wish to bring in your own popcorn, you may do so, but we'll charge you an 'accommodation fee' that will make it even more expensive than buying from us. Have a good day."
Well then, we'll move our event to another, more accommodating hotel and take our 600 guest room rentals, 4 banquets, and 8 days of ballroom rentals with us. Have a nice day!

Seen it happen. The hotel sales person's head swung around so fast I though she'd been the little girl in The Exorcist. The problem is most event planners have no idea how to play hardball with this kind of stupid excrement.
 
Well then, we'll move our event to another, more accommodating hotel and take our 600 guest room rentals, 4 banquets, and 8 days of ballroom rentals with us. Have a nice day!

Seen it happen. The hotel sales person's head swung around so fast I though she'd been the little girl in The Exorcist. The problem is most event planners have no idea how to play hardball with this kind of stupid excrement.
That only works when PSAV doesn't control the market for 600 seat ballrooms.
 
That only works when PSAV doesn't control the market for 600 seat ballrooms.

They don't control crap. A hotel sales dept will throw the in-house AV company under multiple buses for a week of full guest rooms, multiple banquets and having 2 ballrooms and every breakout room rented.

I saw one NEW hotel (built with city bond money) refuse to make ceiling penetrations for rigging a major aerospace display, client paying for engineering and restoration. The client called the mayor and city manager, explained why they were moving the event back to the old hotel... and 2 hours later the new hotel had a new building engineer, a new sales manager, a very apologetic GM, and the ball room rental was comped. A hotel can do anything they want, and telling the in-house providers to stand down will, and does, happen.

If a hotel wants the business it's amazing how flexible they can become.
 

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