MANTS Evergreen  

Brooklandville,  MD 
United States
http://www.mants.com

The Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show, Inc. (MANTS ®) was established in 1970 by the Maryland and Virginia Nurserymen’s Associations. The West Virginia Nurserymen’s Association became the third partner in 1972. All three State Nursery and Landscape Associations are equal sponsors of the show. MANTS is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of three directors from each member state. They meet three times annually, including the day preceding the show. The Board elects its officers - president, vice president, secretary and treasurer at its first board meeting following MANTS, usually in February. Carville M. Akehurst was MANTS’ first Executive Vice President, a position he held until his death in 2001. Nancy Akehurst, a force behind MANTS from the beginning, was appointed by the Board to succeed her husband, which she did until her retirement in 2005. Vanessa Akehurst Finney follows in her family’s footsteps as MANTS’ third Executive Vice President. The first trade show was held in Williamsburg, Virginia in January, 1971 with 64 exhibitors and the second in 1972 at the Hunt Valley Inn in Cockeysville, Maryland with 79 exhibitors. During the ensuing years the show continued to grow with several more in Hunt Valley and three at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. The January 1980 show was held in Norfolk, Virginia and all subsequent winter shows have been held at the Baltimore Convention Center in Maryland. 

Join MANTS Evergreen for hosted drop in hours: 

• January 6th: 9 am - 12 pm
• January 7th: 12 pm - 2 pm 
• January 8th: 11 am - 3 pm 

Use our Zoom Link here to meet with the MANTS Evergreen staff! 

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• $250 Off Your First Order! (Sep 28, 2020)

  Place your order by January 8th and receive an additional $250 off our trade show prices! Discount applies to your first order.

 Press Releases

• MANTS Opens Online Business Hub for 2021 (Sep 28, 2020)
  Due to COVID-19 concerns, ongoing restrictions on large indoor gatherings, and
  unforeseen unavailability at the Baltimore Convention Center, The Mid-Atlantic Nursery Trade Show
  (MANTS) announced today that the 2021 show, initially scheduled for January 6-8, is unable to take
  place as an in-person event. MANTS organizers are, instead, working to provide an online platform
  where exhibitors and attendees can conduct business.
  Organizers had been optimistic about the possibility of continuing the 50-year tradition of MANTS in
  January 2021 but recently confirmed that the Baltimore Convention Center is not available for the
  scheduled dates due to its ongoing role as a State of Maryland field hospital. The Baltimore
  Convention Center has served as a 250-bed COVID-19 field hospital since April and will continue to
  serve in that capacity through the end of December. When factoring in additional time required to
  break down the field hospital and sanitize, it is impractical to assume proper access to the building
  even if the state should change its restrictions on large-scale indoor gatherings.
  “The health and safety of our exhibitors and attendees is our primary focus,” said MANTS Executive
  Vice President Vanessa Finney. “We’ve exhausted all other alternative dates for an in-person show,
  and while we are disappointed that we can’t meet in person, we are committed to keeping commerce
  within our industry alive and healthy. MANTS’ continued support of our show sponsors, the State
  Nursery and Landscape Associations of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia is critical despite the
  pandemic.”
  The Horticulture Industry has remained strong with interest in home gardening especially on the rise
  across the country due to quarantine. With many industry shows canceled in 2020 due to coronavirus,
  MANTS stands uniquely positioned to ensure exhibitors and buyers remain connected even though
  they cannot meet face-to-face.
  “MANTS has meant business for the green industry for 50 years, and we plan to continue this
  tradition into 2021,” added Finney. “We have long said that MANTS means business, and that has
  traditionally meant in-person and face-to-face, but over the next few weeks, we are working on an
  alternate way to keep that business relationship between exhibitor and buyer healthy and available
  through 2021.”

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