Positive feelings for supply chain and materials handling industry on display at ProMat 2013. Bracing winter winds blew through Chicago, Illinois this January but even they couldn't cool down the energy and excitement that seemed to resonate out of McCormick Place as it played host to ProMat 2013. The materials handling tradeshow drew 785 exhibitors and 34,085 attendees, who packed the tradeshow floor. Informal polling by MM&D found exhibitors reporting a seeming uptick of senior level executives-people who could make purchasing decisions and open the purse strings-visiting their booths, and that impression was confirmed by the facts. ProMat officials report 85 percent of attendees had buying authority and 34 percent planned on spending $1 million or more on equipment and systems over the next 18 months.
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