Last week, Kaeser & Blair, Batavia, Ohio, welcomed its top sales volume dealers to the Clearwater Beach Hilton Resort for the annual Sales Leader Summit. The three-day, all-expense-paid event included lots of activities in and around Clearwater, Fla.,…
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Promotional Products Association International, Irving, Texas, announced Teresa Moisant, MAS, owner and president of Oklahoma City-based Moisant Promotional Products, as the 2017 PPAI Woman of Achievement. The presentation of the PPAI Woman of Achievement award will take place during the 2017…
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After assisting in successfully guiding Chicago-based Quality Certification Alliance (QCA) for a decade, Rick Rayl, announced that he is stepping down from his position on the QCA Board of Directors, where he also served as chair of the Distributor Advocacy Council (DAC) committee. Rayl has served QCA for ten years, which includes being part of…
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Sweda Company LLC, City of Industry, Calif., announced the addition of Brigid Hines as director of merchandising. With more than 10 years of promotional industry experience, Hines most recently served as product marketing manager for Virco, a supplier of educational equipment. Prior…
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PHILADELPHIA (May 16, 2017) – Promo Marketing, the leading source of product and marketing information for distributor sales professionals, today announced that Nichole Stella, president and chief revenue officer, has joined Top 40 industry supplier M. Rubin…
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Showdown Displays, Brooklyn Center, Minn., announced it has been acquired by Pfingsten Partners LLC, a Chicago-based private equity firm, as part of a recapitalization event. Showdown Displays goes to market through a network of more than 20,000 resellers composed of promotional products distributors, sign shops and printers. Showdown products can be found in a variety…
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Hub Pen Company, Braintree, Mass., announced the addition of associate account executive Sue Jonah to the inside sales team. The Massachusetts native had more than 20 years of sales experience when she joined a New England greeting card supplier in a…
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Chocolate Inn/Taylor & Grant, Hicksville, N.Y., announced that it has promoted Chris O’Connor to the role of vice president of national accounts. O’Connor previously held the position of Mid-Atlantic territory manager for Chocolate Inn/Taylor & Grant. In his new…
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Bankers Advertising Company, an Iowa City, Iowa-based distributor, recently gathered its sales partners and supplier representatives together for its 2017 Gathering of the Stars National Sales Meeting in Springfield, Mo. Springfield is the birthplace of Route 66, which made a…
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Blue Generation, Long Island City, N.Y., announced that it has promoted Terry O’Brien to the position of senior vice president of sales. O’Brien first joined Blue Generation as a sales representative for the Midwest in 1999, and rose to the…
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