PPAI 100 Supplier Insights | August 2024

Next Level Apparel (PPAI 272027, Silver), PPAI 100’s No. 82 supplier, has announced the appointment of Brett Björkman as the company’s newest CEO. This news comes with the additional announcement that founder and outgoing CEO Joe Simsolo is retiring from the company. “Premium is behavior,” Bjorkman says. “It’s about doing things right, making products that […]

At the close of last week’s PPAI Leadership Development Conference, PPAI Board Chair and Fairware CEO Denise Taschereau and PPAI President and CEO Drew Holmgreen sat down with regional association leaders and young professionals for an open town hall. The open conversation reflected deepened trust in PPAI’s relationship with the regional community and a broader […]

Show Your Logo, PPAI 100’s No. 94 distributor, has spent five years and hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to transition to a new enterprise resource planning system. Every time the Oswego, Illinois-based company comes close, an issue arises, and the process is abandoned. Coming out of the pandemic, the firm had a contract ready […]

There’s a place where ideas spark … where the year’s biggest deals are born … and where the entire promotional products industry comes together. It’s a place that’s electric from the moment you walk through the doors – where every glance, every handshake, every display could be the start of something big. Welcome to The […]