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Charles River Apparel President
Barry Lipsett
(right) with some
of the supplier’s customers on Boston’s waterfront.
Newton Manufacturing Hosts
Sales Meeting, Trade Show In
South Carolina
Newton Manufacturing Company
(UPIC: NEWTON) brought
its sales representatives and supplier representatives together
at the Newton, Iowa-based distributor’s National Sales
Meeting & Trade Show at Charleston, South Carolina’s Wild
Dunes Resort in September. The event, “Wild About
Charleston,” featured an awards dinner recognizing the suc-
cesses of its sales representatives, a number of presentations
and peer-to-peer discussions, and opportunities to meet with
more than 45 promotional product suppliers in attendance.
Charles River Apparel Invites
Customers To Boston’s Charles
River Regatta
Charles River Apparel
hosted a number of its key distributor
customers October 18-19 for the 50th Head of the Charles
Regatta in Boston, Massachusetts. Charles River is a sponsor of
nonprofit rowing organization Community Rowing, Inc., provid-
ing apparel for several of the teams competing and
Community Rowing staff.
PPAI Executive Vice President
Bob McLean
(left) and Director of
Expositions and Meetings
Darel Cook
(center right) display The
PPAI Expo’s award alongside
Judy Chambers, CEM
, sales execu-
tive at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (center
left) and
Laurie Lutz
, vice president of CES operations at the
Consumer Electronics Association, whose show earned the No. 1
spot on the Gold 100.
Trade Show Executive
Magazine Awards Top
Ranking To The PPAI Expo
The
PPAI Expo
has been recognized as the 55th-ranked
U.S. trade show on
Trade Show Executive
magazine’s 2014
Gold 100 List. The rankings, published in the magazine’s
October issue, are based on a three-part, same-show com-
parison including show size, growth and attendance as well
as innovation, social media practices, green initiatives, global
participation and economic impact. The PPAI Expo has
been ranked as one of the leading trade shows of the Gold
100 since the list’s inception in 2007. PPAI Executive Vice
President Bob McLean and PPAI Director of Expositions and
Meetings Darel Cook attended the
Trade Show Executive
Gold 100 Awards and Summit in Dana Point, California, on
October 22-24 to accept the award for PPAI.
Newton Manufacturing Company’s National Sales Meeting &
Trade Show event drew Newton representatives, guests and
employees to Charleston, South Carolina.
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