A big THANKS to all of you who attended, displayed, sponsored, presented and made the trade show a huge success.  Kim and I are thrilled to be a part of such a great Association!  There would be no trade show without your participation and we appreciate each and every one of you.  Good feedback from some of you and we appreciate that as well.  We had over 200 attendees and there was plenty of time to visit the booths and network with your fellow NTPDA members.  We elected the new officers for 2010 and after attending the board meeting on Saturday morning I'm pleased to say that we have a great board this year and I think they will be involved and attentive to the needs of the Association.  Watch your next Bulletin for highlights of the trade show. 

Our next trade show is schedule for January 2011 in Orlando , Florida .  We will start planning that event in the next few weeks.  I've already been asked to put a golf tournament together for the attendees and also get information regarding Disney World.  If any of you have any suggestions, please let me know as soon as possible.  It takes about 18 months from start to finish to put a trade show together.  I look forward to hearing from you.

I hope your year has started off on the right foot and I hope all of you much health and prosperity in the year 2010.

Remember that the NTPDA is YOUR Association for used, rebuilt, and new agricultural and industrial repair parts.

Thank you to all displayers and attendees for making the Conference & Trade Show for 2010 a great week!  We appreciate you!   Photos from the week will be available soon on our Member Photos page.  Go ahead and mark your calendars now for January 19 - 23, 2011, to join us in Orlando, FL, at the Doubletree Resort Orlando - International Drive for our 27th Annual Conference & Trade Show!  For those of you who did not get to make it to Nashville, we hope to see you in Orlando!

It is show time! This week we are off to Nashville for our 26^th Annual Conference and Trade Show. The week will be filled with social events and networking with people in the industry of selling new, used and rebuilt agricultural and industrial repair parts. We all look forward to seeing each other at this time of year and reuniting. It is a time to see familiar faces as well as meet new members who are new to the Association. It is a time to visit exhibitors who attend our show and display their products. It is a time to get to know others in the Association on a different level. This will be my 9^th trade show to attend and I can tell you this group has become a family to me. I talk to members throughout the year but it is in January that I look forward to seeing those who get to attend face to face. We have members who have been with us since the conception of the Association to those who have just joined. We are a diverse group in age but all who are in the business of selling agricultural and/or industrial repair parts. If you are reading this and are a member attending the show, I will see you in a few days. If you are a member but not attending the show this year, you will be missed!  I hope you will consider joining us in Orlando next year. If you are reading this and you sell new, used or rebuilt ag or industrial repair parts, drop me a line at kim@ntpda.com and I’ll send you information how you can become a part of this amazing group of people.