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8 • PPB • MAY 2016 FEEDBACK
FEEDBACK
THANK YOU FOR YOUR HOSPITAL-
ITY and for putting on what
proved to be a very productive
Expo East for me and my wife.
The presenters of the semi-
nars I attended were terrific.
Kathleen Booth [CEO of
Quintain Marketing] was very
well prepared and it became
apparent very early on that she is
an absolute expert in her field.
The volume of useful informa-
tion that she was able to com-
municate in a short period of
time was quite impressive. This
was a very worthwhile seminar.
I attended the CPSIA
[Consumer Product Safety
Improvement Act] presentation
that Tim [Brown, MAS, PPAI
product responsibility manager],
Sue [DeRagon, UL-STR associ-
ate director of the toys and pre-
miums group] and Mary
[Poissant, Apple Imprints
Apparel director of sales and
marketing] put on. This is an
extremely boring and confusing
topic that nobody wants to deal
with. The CPSIA website only
makes it more confusing and
unwanted. That being said, Tim,
Sue and Mary were very well
prepared and did an excellent job
of explaining what our responsi-
bilities are as distributors and the
situations where we are viewed as
manufacturers. They clearly iden-
tified what we should adopt as
best practices and I left that sem-
inar actually feeling confident
that I have everything I need to
be compliant with the CPSIA
requirements for youth apparel.
Every distributor and supplier
should attend this seminar.
Michael Crooks' [vice presi-
dent of U.S. operations for
Weepuline, LLC] presentation on
the promotional marketing agency
was very thought provoking. He
did not go into any great detail in
any one area. However, he suc-
cessfully got all of us in atten-
dance to focus on the areas where
large scale changes are taking
place in the industry and how we
can navigate our way through by
adapting to and embracing these
changes rather than cursing them.
I found all of the people
working on behalf of PPAI in
registration and throughout the
show floor to be extremely pro-
fessional and helpful, which
reflects well on the Association
and what it has accomplished.
Overall, this was a terrific
event, and my wife and I look
forward to returning next year.
Al Donius
Vice President of Sales
KW Textile, Inc.
Buffalo, New York
UPIC: kwtex
EXPO EAST’S EDUCATION DAY featured the same high-level education
opportunities that The PPAI Expo is known for. Attendees at the show in Atlantic
City in March had their choice of more than 50 education sessions in seven
tracks—Strategies & Solutions, Corporate Responsibility, Industry Essentials,
Marketing & Advertising, Decorate, Sales & Service and Technology.
Expo East
Education
Programming
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