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Retailer Appreciation Night announced for SIMA Surf Summit 11

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 30 April, 2008 : - - Aliso Viejo -- SIMA is proud to announce the first-ever Retailer Appreciation Night to be held on Thursday evening, May 15, during SIMA Surf Summit 11 in Los Cabos, Mexico.
 
Staying with Surf Summit’s theme of uniting the tribe, the dinner will serve as a time to recognize all of the nominees in the Women’s, Men’s and Breakthrough Retailer of the Year Image Award categories, as well as a number of other key retailers joining SIMA in Cabo. Surf Summit attendees will want to be sure to attend this dinner to pay tribute to their retailers.
 
“We are excited to officially welcome retailers to this year’s SIMA Surf Summit 11,” said Tom Holbrook, chairman of SIMA’s Retail Relations committee. “With the recent formation of the Retail Relations Committee at SIMA, formal communication with our retail partners is now ‘official’ too. In 2008, everyone is already working harder and hopefully this committee helps everyone ‘connect the dots’ a bit more together as one surf industry.

The Retail Appreciation Night on Thursday evening in Cabo will be a great opportunity to recognize all of the nominees, as well as just get together with friends outside of a convention center. The gathering of the tribes in Cabo is even more complete with our retail accounts joining us in the festivities.”
 
The Retailer Appreciation Night will be held on the second night of Surf Summit before the infamous Transworld Cabo Crawl, and will feature dinner and drinks for all paid Surf Summit attendees. Retailers attending Surf Summit and being honored at the dinner include: Active Ride Shop, Coastal Edge, Hansen’s Boardroom, Huntington Surf & Sport, Jack’s Surfboards, K-5, Macy’s, Pac Sun, Ron Jon, Sun Diego, Surfside Sports and Zumiez.
 
For media inquiries, please contact Mandy Johnson at mandy@sima.com or 949.366.1164 x7.
 
The Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA) is the official working trade association of more than 300 surf industry suppliers. Founded in 1989, SIMA is a non-profit organization that serves to promote awareness of the surf industry and participation in the sport of surfing through public relations efforts and a variety of services, educational programs and research.

In addition, SIMA actively supports oceanic environmental efforts through its 501(c)(3) charitable environmental foundation, the SIMA Environmental Fund. In the past 18 years, SIMA’s Environmental Fund has raised more than $4 million for environmental groups seeking to protect the world’s oceans, beaches and waves.

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