PPEF: Supporting Students

Since 1989, PPEF has awarded over $3.3 million in scholarships to students connected to the promo industry. Meet this year’s recipients in the following pages.

Published Oct. 2, 2023

Rachel Zoch, CAS

Public Affairs Manager

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Promo’s Sustainability Journey

There’s a helpful way for businesses and organizations to look at the idea of progress. A clear-eyed way that briefly removes politicalization, polarization, opinions or, as strange it sounds, even facts: It’s coming. That’s the thing about progress. It just tends to keep happening, one way or another. As far sustainability’s place in promo – […]

Industry News , PPAI Magazine

Promocations: A Sober Review

When you get the unexpected invitation to a Promocations trip, you’re elated. Unbelievable! That’s awesome! And then as the getaway approaches, you’re not so sure it’s for you after all. You arrive in Cabo, and before you can even unpack your sunscreen, someone presses a glass of champagne into your hand. It’s the all-inclusive resort’s […]

PPAI Magazine

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Promotional products have been one of the most tried-and-true methods of advertising for over a century. You don’t have to search PPAI’s membership for long to find family-run companies thriving on their third or fourth generation of leadership. Walk the floors of the Mandalay Bay Convention Center during The PPAI Expo and you’ll run into […]

PPAI Magazine

New Member Spotlight: DGI Apparel

Ian HinkleyCo-founderDGI ApparelPPAI 881035 How did your company get its start? DGI was started because I was formerly a purchaser at a custom apparel shop and had a hard time juggling all of our vendors. My college roommates were amazing software engineers and helped me build a website that would solve this for myself, as […]

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Choc Shock: Prices Soar, But Promo Has The Recipe For Resilience

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PPAI Research: What Suppliers Are Hearing From Distributors

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Team On Demand Ready To Be Promo’s ‘Conduit’ To Coordinated Disaster Relief

When disaster strikes, the promotional products industry has so much of what is required to provide aid. It has products. (Does it ever have products!) It has facilities to temporarily house donations. It has financial power. And above all else, it has people who care. That part has been proven time and time again with […]

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