PPB February 2020

Cross-Country Road Trip To ExpoConnects PPAI To IndustryMembers Last year, ahead of The PPAI Expo 2019, the Association’s Promomobile—a Ford Transit sporting “PPAI 1” on blue custom Texas license plates and wrapped from top to bottom with the message “promotional products work”—made a cross-country trek to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, for the promotional products industry’s largest and longest-running trade show. Throughout the nearly-two-week journey, the van and its passengers visited industry companies and professionals, getting to know them and their businesses and what the industry’s premier trade association can do to help them succeed. And leading up to Expo 2020, PPAI did it again. On January 1, PPAI Marketing Manager Amy Bramhall and Graphic Designer Nolan Moran left the Association’s Irving, Texas, headquarters and headed west. Their journey took them to Lubbock, Texas; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona; and San Diego and Los Angeles, California; before arriving in Las Vegas on January 10. They braved chilly winds in Lubbock and saw a winter wonderland in 94 | FEBRUARY 2020 | CONNECT