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> I come from the retail music industry where we have what is called the
> NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants). They put 2 on per
> year and all the major manufacturers get together to show off their
> products.
>
> Is there such a thing in the coffee industry? I would like to gets up
> close with some of the more high end commercial machines.
>

Several. You're just about to miss SCAA-Seattle, which is probably the
biggest one.
<http://www.scaa.org/conference/index.asp>

There's also Coffee Fest, Coffee Fest, Las Vegas June 3-5, 2005 and
Seattle, October 28-30, 2005:
<http://www.coffeefest.com/>

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