Meister Media Worldwide Partners to Expand New Event Horizons

Posted by Paul Rusnak|March 21, 2018

Meister Media Worldwide, parent company of GrowingProduce.com and producer of innovative events for agricultural markets around the globe in addition to its print, digital, data, and business services for specialty agricultural markets, has announced a joint venture with Norwalk, CT-based NXT Events Media Group as part of Meister’s longer-term strategy to expand its events portfolio.

The new joint venture, called Meister | NXT LLC, will focus on producing conferences and trade shows to help the many diverse segments of agriculture realize the promise of new systems, technologies, and alliances to meet the challenges of ensuring safe, reliable, and abundant food for our expanding world.

The first event of the joint venture will be Growing Innovations, which is slated to debut November 7-8, 2018 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The conference and tradeshow will convene the full range of specialty agriculture and related markets served by nearly all of Meister Media’s industry-leading brands in the U.S. and Mexico including American Fruit Grower and Western Fruit Grower, American Vegetable Grower, Florida Grower, Greenhouse Grower, Greenhouse Grower TECHNOLOGY, Productores de Hortalizas, CropLife, and PrecisionAg Professional.

“Growing Innovations is a one-of-a-kind conference and exposition dedicated exclusively to new and breakthrough solutions to the challenging new farming environment that growers’ face, for which new and emerging technologies and other innovations offer the greatest potential for leading the farm forward,” said Gary T. Fitzgerald, Chairman and CEO of Meister Media Worldwide, which is headquartered in Willoughby, OH.

NXT Events Media Group is led by event industry veterans Britton Jones and Sharon Enright. The duo have produced more than 100 award-winning, world-class events. They also have a strong track record of creating new events, having launched 15 successful new shows in their 18 years of working together.