Awards

Access Hollywood joined forces once again with On 3 Productions to produce the Access Hollywood's 5th Annual "Stuff You Must..." Lounge at the Sofitel Los Angeles in celebration of the Golden Globe Awards.  The event benefitted the Lollipop Theater Network and Best Buddies.

iPROMOTEu, Wayland, Mass., hosted its seventh annual "Thank You" Reception in Las Vegas during The PPAI Expo.

Hub Pen Company, Braintree, Mass., has been named Supplier of The Year by the New England Promotional Products Association (NEPPA).

Grand Island, New York-based Starline USA Inc. announced it has been chosen as a finalist at the 2011 PPAI Web Award competition sponsored by Irving, Texas-based Promotional Products Association International (PPAI).

Based in Braintree, Mass., seven Hub Pen Company employees teamed up with six staffers from Hanson, Massachusetts-based distributor Walker-Clay to participate in the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center’s 10th Annual 4k Trail Run. Three employees from Charles Riverboat Company, a Walker-Clay client, completed the 16-person team.

Braintree, Massachusetts-based Hub Pen Company has hired Andy Arruda, MAS, as national sales executive. In this position, he is responsible for hiring and managing a growing multi-line sales rep force, coordinating a growing telemarketing effort and working closely with many key accounts across the country.

Each year, Promo Marketing asks its readers to tell them which suppliers make the best pens, golf balls, jackets and bags, and the results are our annual Supplier Excellence Awards. With nearly 200 finalists and more than 60 winning companies represented across 33 product categories, the Supplier Excellence Awards represents the most popular, most successful and most effective manufacturers in our industry. And most importantly, it’s all decided by you.

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) paid tribute to the winners and honorees of the 2010 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York. The top honors went to Marc Jacobs for Womenswear Designer of the Year

The Vernon Company, Newton, Iowa, has named nine high school and college students as scholarship winners in its annual William F. Vernon Scholarship program.

Employees of St. Paul, Minnesota-based Crystal D, a leading supplier of corporate awards and plaques, donated 18 units of blood through the American Red Cross Bloodmobile.