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I DA U N I V E R S A L J a n u a r y - Fe b r u a r y 2 0 2 4 4 EDITOR'S NOTES Tiff any Cabral Executive Director/Editor 2024 IDA CONVENTION AND TRADE SHOW October 7-11 Live! Casino and Hotel Philadelphia, PA With appreciation, H appy New Year to all of our readers! ank you all for your support in 2023 and let's look forward to a prosperous 2024! IDA is a unique trade association in which we have an ever-diversifying membership that spans across a full industry supply chain and the world. To service a changing climate and international member- ship, IDA needs to think and act diff erently to provide the proper benefi ts that you expect. Much of those needs to be generated from the feedback of you, the members. roughout the life of the association, there have been several surveys asking for your insights into why you support IDA and what you need from us to support you. A key response we received was more informa- tion related to global business. In future issues, we will expand that to include programs for our international members to grow business with American companies and other nations. Another key to servicing our member- ship for global growth is ensuring we come together to strengthen our partnerships and solidify the business we do with each other. e best way to do that is through our annual trade show. is year will be held in Philadelphia, PA October 7-11, 2024 with eyes set on going international to Dublin, Ireland in October 2025. I am confi dent that 2024 will be a year in which IDA will make even greater strides with new opportunities, but with new opportunities come great challenges. In 2024, IDA members have been challenged with expanding our member base by bringing new members to the association. I encourage you to reach out to your suppliers and customers and invite them to be a part of our global association. To ignite the competition in all of us, IDA has partnered with the host Global Insights for our Global Membership of our 2024 Convention and Trade Show the Live! Casino and Hotel in Philadelphia, to off er a free night stay and $100 food and beverage credit to the company/individual that signs up the greatest number of new members from 1/1/2024– 10/11/2024. ( is includes bringing back past members). Since 2022, IDA has seen an impressive increase in member- ship around the world with an overall 20% growth in members to date; however, the largest increase was within the North American Region. If we are to truly consider ourselves a global association, we need to concen- trate our eff orts on the other regions of the world. With this challenge, I encourage you to go global in your eff orts to recruit new members to the Indepen- dent Distributors Association, Worldwide. "How we handle what's ahead of us will be determined by what we learned from every- thing that is behind us. For if we learned nothing, what's behind us will be the exact same thing that's in front of us." – Craig D. Lounsbrough, Professional Life Coach ■ CSAR Central South American Region ■ EAST Eastern Europe and the Middle East ■ EUR Europe ■ FAR Far East ■ NAR North American Region Current distribution of members 12/31/2023.

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