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Best Of Expo | FEATURE
The Industry’s Meeting Place
Long known as the industry’s “big
tent,” this year the show was host to the
SAGE Conference, iPROMOTEu’s A
Woman’s View, commonsku’s skucon
and PromoKitchen workshops, and it
attracted many national sales groups
including Fully Promoted (formerly
EmbroidMe) and American Solutions
for Business, as well as AIMastermind,
Jack Nadel International, iPROMOTEu,
HALO Branded Solutions, Proforma, AIA
Corporation and Geiger.
Giving Back
PPAI Expo attendees have long been
a generous group and many turned out
to support the Promotional Products
Education Foundation (PPEF) through
participation in the PPEF Glen Holt
Scholarship Golf Invitational, Branch Out
& Give donation tree and live and online
auctions. Net proceeds of more than
$50,000 will go to the industry’s college
scholarship program. Expo exhibitors
donated nearly $31,000 worth of samples
and promotional products to the Kids In
Need Foundation. Since 2008, exhibitors
have donated a total of more than
$320,000 in products to this organization,
which supplies educators with necessary
classroom supplies and student incentives
for schools in lower-income areas.
See the
Expo flipbook
with more photos
from the show here:
PPAI-Expo-2017
PPAI company
awards were
presented at this
year’s new event,
the PPAI Block Party
with its Walk of
Fame, which drew big
crowds to celebrate
the big wins.
Distributor
attendees Jen
Dawson, Caden
Concepts; Heidi
Perreault, Clean
Fun Promo; and Lori
Caden and Carlyn
Calloway, Caden
Concepts, take in the
fun at the show.
On the final night, PPAI and SAGE hosted
the Party of Two at LAX Nightclub at the Luxor
Hotel & Casino.