Archive for January, 2012

Congratulations bpma Award Winners

Monday, January 30th, 2012

The bpma hosted its Annual awards dinner on 25th January at the Trade Only National Show in Coventry. A record breaking 800 industry guests attended the event which is continuously hailed as the best industry night of the year!

The evening was brought alive by charismatic guest star Olly Murs who entertained the room with his chart topping hits and classic tunes that filled the dance floor. The interactive live voting for Campaign of the Year and Personality of the Year returned allowing each guest to place a vote, with over 800 votes received! A big congratulations to all award winners…. Award winners and finalists include:

Supplier of the Year
Senator Pens

sponsored by Brand Addition

Finalists:
Listawood
Bizz Badge
SPS
Distributor of the Year up to £2 million
Allwag Promotions
sponsored by SPS

Finalists:
Willsmer Wagg
Leighmans.com
The Sourcing Team
Distributor of the Year – £2m- £5m
Merchandise Mania
sponsored by Listawood

Finalists:
Falcon Promotions
LSI
Premier Print & Promotions

Distributor of the Year – £5m+
Brand Addition
sponsored Laltex Group

Finalists:
BTC Group
Dukes of London
Dowlis Corporate Solutions

Campaign of the Year
2BSourced

sponsored by High Profile
(Lawrence Angelow accepted the award on behalf of 2bsourced)

Finalists:
Forza 4 – BTC Group
Bacardi – Brandinc
Liverpool Primary Care Trust – Wild Thang
Personality of the Year
Godfrey O’Donnell, Keramikos
sponsored by Brunel Trade Services

Finalists include:
Simon Patnick, Merchandise Mania
Brian Hayward, Page Group
Evan Lewis, Everything Environmental
Best Exhibition Shell Scheme
Nimbus Nordic
sponsored by BTC Activewear
Best Free Build Exhibition Stand
The Pen Warehouse
sponsored by Sharon Lee

BPMA Announces Industry Leading Education Programme

Monday, January 30th, 2012

At the bpma Awards Dinner on the 25th January 2012 Chairman of the bpma Neal Beagles announced that the bpma would be launching an Industry Leading Education Programme. The focus will be on Continual Professional Development for all of its’ members which is a natural extension of the already very successful bpma Academy.

Beagles also went on to say that there will be a bpma Education Day to be held at the RICOH Arena in Coventry on January 22nd 2013, the day before The Trade Only National Show 2013.

Neal Beagles commented “We are delighted to be running an education day ahead of the 2013 Trade Only National Show. We plan to bring in some of the world’s best speakers in promotional merchandise to this event as education is core to the bpma’s strategy in moving the industry forward. This will truly put us in the forefront of education for our industry”