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Article: Floor fight: Show bars rival portals.(PackagingInsider.com and Packaging Network.com not allowed to exhibit at PackExpo)
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- July 17, 2000
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Competition among three rival packaging industry Web hubs, already full-grown, is now focused on 1.2 million square feet of exhibit floor space. Specifically, a dispute has erupted over why two of the portals -- PackagingInsider.com and VerticalNet Inc.'s Packaging Network.com -- are being barred from exhibiting at PackExpo, while the third portal, PackExpo.com, will be occupying a booth at the show in Chicago on November 5-9. At stake is a piece of the action in a $450 billion industry. The two excluded portals charge that PackExpo.com is unfairly exploiting its link to Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, the Arlington, Va.-based trade association that produces ...
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