BINGHAMTON — People lassoing a cow and walking around in cowboy hats are just a couple of the interesting things visitors saw at Thursday’s 26th annual Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce Expo at the Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena.
Curcio Printing of Vestal engaged attendees with a chance to win a cowboy hat by lassoing a cow statue. Down the aisle from The Business Journal booth, Smith-Ingalls-French, a Binghamton–based promotional-products company, attracted passers by with loud toys, called POP displays.
All 100 booths were sold out for this year’s expo and a wide variety businesses and nonprofits participated, including local colleges, hotels, restaurants, real-estate agencies, and financial-services firms, to name a few.
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Official attendance figures are not available yet. The expo offered free box lunches to the first 500 attendees and most of them were taken. So the event attracted at least a few hundred people.
In this age of widespread use of electronic communications, the expo provides the opportunity for business professionals to have face-to-face meetings and make personal connections.
“That’s why we continue to hold this show,” Lou Santoni, president of the Greater Binghamton Chamber of Commerce, said in opening remarks.
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