10th annual Hispanic Marketing Midwest Conference.

The 10th annual Hispanic Marketing Midwest conference, produced by Aguilar Productions, will be held on April 25-26 in the Twin Cities.

Aguilar Productions, based in Minneapolis, is celebrating its 10 year anniversary of promoting the Hispanic market and has the distinction of being the only Latino-owned company in the U.S. producing Hispanic marketing conferences on an annual basis.

One of the highlights of the conference is the 2nd annual Hispanic Marketing Midwest Awards dinner, “celebrating excellence in Hispanic marketing” being held on April 25 at the prestigious James J. Hill Reference Library in St. Paul.

Alex Lopez Negrete, President & CEO of Lopez Negrete Communications is being honored at the dinner for his leadership in the development of the Hispanic marketing industry and Carlos Garcia, Garcia Research Associates will receive the “HispanSource” award for outstanding achievement in Hispanic marketing research. American Family Insurance is the corporate marketing award recipient.

Keynote speaker for the dinner is Israel Hernandez, who holds the No. 2 job in Commerce and is also the director-general of the U.S.and Foreign Commercial Services.

The awards selection committee members include: Hector Orci, La Agencia de Orci & Asociados, Felipe Korzenny, Professor at Florida State University and Co-Founder of Cheskin, Rico Vallejos, LatinoCreative.com, Sam Richter, James J. Hill Reference Library and Rick Aguilar, Aguilar Productions.

The April 26th 10th annual Hispanic marking conference features presenters: Carlos Santiago, Santiago Solutions Group, Rochelle Newman-Carrasco, Enlace Communications and Carlos Garcia, Garcia Research Associates. For more information go to http://www.aguilarproductions.com