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OBITUARY
MANTS RECAP (Continued)

“MANTS has always been the best show of the year for
our companies. We meet the right customer base and
prospects each year, and this year was no different. This
was the perfect way to start off 2022 …”
Kevin Cramer, Marketing Manager,
Van Belle Nursery

Complete testimonial is available on mants.com under the ‘Show Facts’ tab.

flight cancellations, interstate closures, COVID, and other
factors out of our collective control, our exhibitors and buyers
went to great lengths to be with us and return to the in-person
connections that are a hallmark of MANTS.” MANTS 2022
continued to mean business, welcoming well-qualified buyers
with high levels of purchasing power. More than 86 percent of
MANTS attendees identified as either the final decision-makers
or those who influence their companies’ purchasing decisions.
(Continued on mants.com)
Preparing for MANTS, regardless of the year, always has its
challenges and the past few years especially have each had
their own set of unique trials. But none of what is conveyed
here should be mistaken as a complaint. Quite the opposite
in fact. Irrespective of the circumstances, MANTS is MANTS
because of the thousands of people who work behind the
scenes, exhibit, attend or in some way touch the lives of
those who participate in the show. Ours is an industry whose
history is built on a bedrock of challenges and changing
conditions and all of them have been and continue to be
met head on. This is an industry that solves, adapts, adjusts,
changes, acclimates, course corrects and keeps moving
forward. And for its part, MANTS has and will continue to do
the same.

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The 53 year of MANTS will be held January 11 – 13, 2023 at the
Baltimore Convention Center and we look forward to seeing Kelly Finney
Quercus Management
everyone then. A 410-823-1789
kelly@quercusmanagement.com

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