PPAI Pyramid Awards Celebrates 60 Years With Full Program Redesign

Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), Irving, Texas, will celebrate the 60th presentation of its Pyramid Awards in 2018.

The PPAI Pyramid Award has stood the test of time and continues to advance the awareness and prestige of the industry’s most innovative companies and talented individuals. First introduced in 1958, the PPAI Pyramid Award recognizes promotional products businesses and helps shine the spotlight on the collaborative business model unique to the industry.

PPAI is celebrating the event with the launch of an all-encompassing rebrand under the PPAI Pyramid Award. The rebranded Pyramid Award will recognize previous award categories, and now includes the Suppliers Achievement, Technology, Image and Star competitions. The winners of Pyramid Awards will be honored at the PPAI Awards Presentation and Reception held January 16, 2018, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in conjunction with The PPAI Expo in Las Vegas, January 14-18, 2018.

Pyramid Award Competition Categories:

Distributor

• Client Program Entries
• Marketing Entries
• Technology Entries

Supplier

• Decorating/Product Development (formerly known as Suppliers Achievement)
• Marketing (formerly known as Image Awards)
• Technology

Regional Association

• Client Programs
• Marketing
• Technology

Business Service/Multi-Line Representative

• Marketing
• Technology

The submission deadline for the new PPAI Pyramid Awards competition is July 14, 2017. Entries submitted between now and June 30 are eligible for an early-bird discount. Detailed Pyramid Awards submission competition categories and requirements can be found here.

A judging panel will judge each category based on the criteria and points values provided. All submitted entries are judged individually based on how well they deliver the required elements.

Member companies do not compete against each other, but earn points solely on the merit of each of their own entries. Winners are selected by a panel of industry professionals and independent, outside marketing and advertising professionals. For more information about the PPAI awards program visit www.ppai.org/awards, or contact the PPAI Awards and Recognition department at awards@ppai.org.