PPB November 2015

AIA brought in 11 members from its affiliate community—most

were the children of long-time AIA distributors—along with three

representatives from sponsoring supplier companies:

Marc Held

with Bodek and Rhodes,

Aaron Gunderson

of The Magnet Group

and

Brittany David

with Snugz USA—to discuss the changing mar-

ket and to share sales techniques.

AIA Connects With Younger

Generation At Inaugural

GenNext Summit

AIA Corporation

(UPIC: advinadv) hosted its first

GenNext Summit for distributor affiliates in September,

providing the opportunity for them to become more

familiar with AIA’s National Support Center in Neenah,

Wisconsin, and for AIA to understand their needs and

visions for the future. Field Sales Director Greg Armstrong

created the event to proactively engage the next genera-

tion of affiliates with the AIA community.

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Pro Towels and Kanata Blanket employees, and Wright Middle

School students load a truck with supplies for a flood-ravaged

school the middle school had adopted in the capital city of

Columbia, a city particularly hard-hit by the flood.

Pro Towels And Kanata Blanket

USA Donate Blankets To Aid

Flood Victims

Pro Towels

(UPIC: PROTOWEL) and

Kanata Blanket USA

(UPIC: BLANKET) have donated more than 1,500 of its blankets

to help victims of the recent flooding disaster in South Carolina.

Pro Towels, which operates its primary manufacturing facility in

Abbeville, South Carolina, teamed up with local Wright Middle

School to move quickly after disaster struck.

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Approximately 50 families from the adopted school in Columbia

lost everything, with more than 800 children from the school

affected in some way by the flood. In addition to blankets, the

tractor-trailer was filled with school supplies, socks, shoes, clothes,

bottled water and other supplies.