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PPAI President and CEO

Paul Bellantone, CAE

, spoke on the

effectiveness of promotional products as an advertising medi-

um at the VAPPA Spring Expo.

PPAI Staff Observes Earth Day

With Tree-Planting

PPAI

staff celebrated Earth Day with a tree-planting on the

Association’s grounds in Irving, Texas. The annual event, held

each April 22, began in 1970 and supports environmental pro-

tection.

The Association’s Earth Day participation was spearheaded

by its Go Green staff committee, a group working to make

PPAI a more environmentally friendly workplace. The commit-

tee plans to make planting a tree on Earth Day an annual

event as a way of giving back to the land PPAI occupies.

At the Hilton Hotel & Spa Short Pump in Richmond and the

Sheraton Hotel & Spa Conference Center in Roanoke, VAPPA

Spring Expo 2015 attendees met with 80 exhibitors representing

more than 200 product lines.

PPAI staff gathers with the tree the Association planted in recog-

nition of Earth Day 2015.

VAPPA Spring Expo 2015

Brings Education, Exhibitors

To Richmond And Roanoke

The

Virginia Promotional Products Association

(VAPPA)

brought its Spring Expo 2015 to Richmond and Roanoke on

March 30. The expo’s two-day end-buyer show included a

presentation from PPAI President and CEO Paul Bellantone,

CAE, who spoke on the effectiveness of promotional prod-

ucts as an advertising medium. VAPPA’s event drew 270 dis-

tributors and nearly 450 end buyers from across the region.