AGMA - American Gear Manufacturers Association

2011 Marketing & Forecasting Conference

What’s going on with this market? What is happening in the end user markets that will affect our next year? How can you prepare your company for the ups and downs of the current economic climate?

This fall’s Marketing and Forecasting Conference is designed to help you answer these questions.

AGMA Marketing & Forecasting Conference
October 12-13, 2011
Hyatt Regency O’Hare
9300 Bryn Mawr Ave.
Rosemont, IL

$349/first employee from AGMA member company
$249/any additional individuals from the same company

AGMA recently contracted with the economic powerhouse, IHS Global Insight, to provide economic consulting to the association. For over 20 years, Dr. Mike Bradley was our economic consultant but last year he decided to retire. In addition to presenting the “usual” forecast for open and enclosed gears, IHS Global Insight has developed new reports for AGMA that will forecast end markets for your products. Don’t miss the roll-out of these new reports.

At the Marketing & Forecasting Conference, they will present a comprehensive report on the US Economic Conditions, Industry Conditions for Gears, Gear Market Bookings and Gear Market Shipments. But this information will be broken down into a series of end user markets:

• Total Gears
• Industrial Machinery Gears
• Construction Machinery Gears
• Farm Machinery Gears
• Commercial & Service Machinery Gears
• Power Transmission Equipment Gears
• Mining, Oil, & Gas Field Equipment Gears
• Ship & Offshore Platform Gears
• Railroad Equipment Gears
• and Aerospace Gears

If that is not enough information, John Mackay, the statistician behind the AGMA Operating Ratio Report, will share how your company can become one of the “high profit” companies in the industry. Using the ORR, the detailed benchmarking analysis that shows the financial performance for companies by sales, asset size, and profitability, his presentation will not be about the numbers; it will be about how the marketing function in your company can help improve your company’s performance and improve your bottom line.

Sample graph available in .pdf format to the right

Join us for this AGMA member only event – we have also included a reception and dinner so that you have time for networking with your peers.

SCHEDULE

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm Reception and Dinner

Thursday, October 13, 2011

8:00 am – 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am – 5:00 pm General Session
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch

HOTEL INFORMATION
Hyatt Regency O’Hare Hotel
9300 Bryn Mawr Avenue
Rosemont, IL 60018

+1-888-421-1442

Reservations can be made online through this link
Hotel rate: $159
cut off date 9/23/2011. After this date, the AGMA rate cannot be guaranteed