ALEXANDRIA, VA, 2015-4-29 — /EPR Retail News/ — Allison Dean has joined NACS as meetings coordinator. Dean will join the NACS meetings and conventions team and assist in the day-to-day operations of several NACS meetings throughout the year, including the NACS Show, one of the nation’s largest and most successful tradeshows.
Allison comes to NACS most recently from CORE Group, a public health non-profit organization where she worked on meeting planning, membership and office management. Previously, Dean worked for Event Planning International Corporation (EPIC) as a registration associate. Dean was also active with the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer as a crew and volunteer coordinator.
Dean graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, with B.A. in media studies.
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Founded in 1961 as the National Association of Convenience Stores, NACS (nacsonline.com) is the international association for convenience and fuel retailing. The U.S. convenience store industry, with more than 151,000 stores across the country, posted $696 billion in total sales in 2013, of which $491 billion were motor fuels sales. NACS has 2,100 retail and 1,600 supplier member companies, which do business in nearly 50 countries.