| For companies like Cott, the ceremony presents the opportunity for an all-day binge of TV, analyst confabs, and shrimp bowls. |
| At one of these confabs, I was obliged to tour the floor with my new boss, who wanted to show me how schmoozing the client should be done. |
| But even that function is pretty meager, for only sparse audiences of curious spectators and hard core loyalists ever show up at their confabs. |
| Believing one of every 10 happy-talk words that the leaders utter about their confabs would seem to be the appropriate discount rate. |
| If ever there was a time when confabs on the future of the entertainment biz are relevant, this is it. |
| They might be the product of his confabs with the management luminaries of the European game at a forum in Geneva a week past on Friday. |
