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Sourcing Team’s
Gill Thorpe Participates
In London Charity Walk
Gill Thorpe, CEO UK-based distributor
The Sourcing Team
(UPIC: SOUR0004), brought together a group of friends to par-
ticipate in the Moonwalk London 2015 on May 16 in support of
Walk the Walk, a grant-making breast cancer charity. “Treasured
Chest” raised £5,275.98, while the Moondwalk London 2015
generated more than £2,576,895 for Walk the Walk.
Thorpe’s team, “Treasured Chest,” joined more than 15,000 partic-
ipants in the night-time walk, which crossed 26.2 miles of London.
SNAPSHOTS
During his June visit to PPAI headquarters,
Stan W.A. Dohan,
MAS
(second from right), president of The Allen Company, met
with PPAI staff including (from left)
Joel Baker
,
Darel Cook
,
Ellen
Tucker
,
A.J. Hunter
,
Gary Slavonic
,
Tina Berres Filipski
,
Anne
Lardner-Stone
and
Paul Bellantone, CAE
.
PPAI Hosts The Allen Company
President Stan Dohan, MAS
In June, Stan W.A. Dohan, MAS (second from right), president
of supplier
The Allen Company
(UPIC: ALLEN) in Blanchester,
Ohio, visited PPAI headquarters in Irving, Texas. During his
visit, Dohan met with PPAI staff and leadership to share
insights on his company, perspectives on the industry and
information to help staff better understand his company
model. The group also discussed opportunities in which the
supplier and PPAI can work together.
Jonathan Tennant, MAS
, (right) of Pure Logo and
Ryan Schnepp
of Sunoco secured a Gold Pyramid Award in the Political and
Legislative Programs category for the companies’ collaboration.
The category celebrates programs designed to stimulate aware-
ness, participation, or donations related to elections, awareness
campaigns, petitioning, political action committees, or lobbying
activities in local, state or national political arenas.
Pure Logo’s Jonathan Tennant,
MAS, Shares Gold Pyramid
Award With Client
At a
National Association of Business Political Action
Committees
(NABPAC) luncheon on May 12, Jonathan
Tennant, MAS, vice president of sales for distributor Pure
Logo, Inc. (UPIC: P620391), presented Ryan Schnepp of
Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners, his client, a PPAI Gold
Pyramid award in recognition of the work they collaborated on
in recognition of the work of Pure Logo and its client Sunoco in
developing materials for Energy Transfer’s membership drive.
Sunoco is a member of NABPAC.
PPAI’s Pyramid Awards recognize the outstanding, creative
use of promotional products in the client programs and cam-
paigns of distributor members and industry regional associa-
tions. Their creativity and ingenuity is honored each year at an
awards presentation and reception held during The PPAI Expo.