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As continued supporters of education, the Promotional Products Association of Florida (PPAF) announced it was proud to recognize the 2009 Women’s Leadership Conference (WLC) contest winner, Judy Anstine, CSR manager of Toledo, Ohio-based Sabina.

Hanover, Pennsylvania-based HPC Global, Hanover, PA, a supplier to the promotional products industry, announced it added an eco-friendly touch to the PROMOTIONS EAST Show in Atlantic City, N.J.

In its 20th year, Irving, Texas-based Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) Presidents’ Forum is taking on a new name and new partners.

The Specialty Advertising Association of Greater New York Inc. (SAAGNY) based in Montvale, New Jersey announced that PROMOTIONS EAST 2009 posted a verified attendance of nearly 3,600 distributor sales professionals from 1,735 companies, up more than 16% from last year.

Irving, Texas-based Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) announced it is set to host the fifth annual Women’s Leadership Conference titled, “LEAD!” in Savannah, Georgia, July 7 to 10, 2009.

Mary Ellen Pahlka, MAS and director of marketing communications for Philadelphia-based Bodek and Rhodes, was recently

Irving, Texas-based Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) announced its business media group received

Pilgrim Plastics, an industry producer of plastic promotional items, announced the relocation of the company's Chatco Pilgrim division

Industry veterans Hugh and Mark Hobbs announced the launch of the new Los Angeles-based Pacific Coast Golf (PCG). The company, founded by the father and son team

On the 30th anniversary of its founding, [Impact Promotional Publishing] will discontinue publication of the Impact Advertising Catalog and all other promotional industry sales and marketing products. Taking a philosophical and long view perspective, Mr. Klein concluded, “It has been 37 years, since I first became associated with the promotional industry and my significant regret, looking back on that time, was my inability to facilitate and accomplish an important goal: the ownership of the industry’s name/address profiles and product descriptions by the non-profit, national trade association, PPAI.” Having waged a long and endless personal campaign, in courts and in competition, with the Advertising Specialty Institute, ASI, I believe that the industry would be better served with our common assets in neutral hands, so that small, innovative entrepreneurs could bring sales and marketing products to suppliers and distributors.