ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA (May 3, 2002) - GAMIS, the Graphic Arts Marketing Information Service of the Printing Industries of America will host its 36th Annual Meeting at the Ocean Reef Club, Key Largo, Florida from June 23-26, 2002. Program highlights include: "Print Markets in Latin America" – David Ashe, President & CEO of B2B Portales, Miami, Florida will come armed with an arsenal of statistics on print markets in the various Latin America countries, to talk about opportunities, threats, and much more. "Advertising Markets: A Look Ahead" – Jeff Hicks, President and Partner, Crispin Porter + Bogusky Advertising, Miami, Florida. In his role at this prestigious advertising firm in Miami, Jeff has a vast array of experiences to draw upon for this presentation. He’ll share some of their survival strategies over this past year, and more importantly give his views about the recovery of the advertising markets over the coming year. What’s hot . . what’s not. "Globalization of Print Buying" – This presentation for GAMIS members only, will review findings from the recent research by Raine Consulting completed exclusively for GAMIS. It will detail what is meant by globalization in print buying, who’s doing it, why, how it’s being executed, opportunities, threats, forecasts for the future and more. In addition to the three major presentations, GAMIS members will participate in meetings where they will scope out future research studies to be completed by GAMIS. For a complete schedule and registration details for the GAMIS Quarterly Meeting visit www.gamis.org. If you would like membership information contact Jackie Bland, GAMIS Executive Director at (703) 519-8179 or [email protected].