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IRTA's Cancun Convention Success

(Submitted to BarterNews by Ron Whitney, IRTA Exec. Dir.)

IRTA's 35th Annual International Convention in Cancun, Mexico, was a resounding success as representatives from trade organizations around the globe rallied in support of IRTA and UC's thirty-five years of meaningful accomplishments for the barter industry.
 
The convention was opened by world-renowned actress Dette Glashouwer, dazzling the audience with her creative presentation on the history of money, central banks and barter. Seminars on complementary currencies, FINCEN rulings, proper deficit management, sales & broker training, real estate trading and UC, were all well attended.
 
The annual general meeting reviewed IRTA and UC's 2014 financials. The treasurer distributed the Financial Reports and provided an overview of challenges and successes before opening the discussion to the members for a Q&A session. Twenty new members have joined IRTA so far this year, and there has been record setting UC trading and UC cash revenues for the year.
 
Despite a software conversion and other challenges in September, UC set a trading record for the month of September with $637,204.02 in trading, (exceeding total annual 2013 trade volume of $8,598,461.70) with one full quarter of trading still to go in 2014.
 
'It really was a great convention, with a lot of camaraderie and warm feelings of good will and support from everyone who attended,' said IRTA Executive Director Ron Whitney.
 
The IRTA membership re-elected John Strabley, (IMS, Milwaukee, WI), Mary Ellen Rosinski, (Tradesource, Phoenix, AZ), and Scot Mathewson, (iTradeearth, Cayey, PR), to the Global Board of directors as well as new board members Chong Kee Tan, (Bay-Bucks, San Francisco, CA), and Steve Zadrick, (WorldtradeX, Ocala, FL).
 
The IRTA Global Board re-elected Annette Riggs to another two-year term as President of IRTA and also re-elected Mary Ellen Rosinski as Treasurer of IRTA. New board member Chong Kee Tan was elected to serve as IRTA's Secretary. Scott Whitmer, IRTA's Vice-President, retained his VP seat that runs through September of 2015. 
 
The Cancun convention was capped-off by the Annual Awards Dinner that honored Michael Mercier of Metro Trade in Detroit, with the Barter Hall-of-Fame Award. Other key awards were received by Bruce Kamm, (Paul St. Martin Award), Vern Ulery and Richard Harris, (Legends of Barter Award), and Diane Gasper (2014 UC Broker of the Year).
 
IRTA and UC congratulate all the 2014 award winners and looks forward to another year of tremendous growth, as well as reaching important industry advocacy goals.
 For more information, click here.  (www.irta.com)

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