The busy fall season is upon us.  Just this month the IMA and its members are active at three industry events. Last week we completed a successful exhibit at the IMEX America show. Thanks to IMA member companies listed below for participating in the IMA booth. 

• Aloe Up Suncare Products
• Bulova
• Citizen Watch
• Pulse Experiential Travel
• RPG Card Services
• Top Brands, Inc.

Later this month, on October 22 at Money 20/20, IGCC will be holding a membership meeting and reception.  If you are an IGCC member we hope you are planning to attend.  You can still register here.  At the end of the month Rick Low will be facilitating a Rewards and Recognition Roundtable at TEAMS 17 featuring fellow IMA members Ken Bott, Dean, Resnekov, and Marc Matthews.  We are excited about this opportunity to educate sports-event organizers and host cities about how they can use non-cash incentive programs to achieve their goals.

The IMA has been making progress and I was pleased to share this with several publications recently.  It's great to have a cohesive voice with IMA leaders, including all of the SIGs and Chapters, sharing their thoughts about how we all benefit from learning each others' business and the valuable education and networking the IMA provides. Watch for the stories later this fall.

Looking into 2018 the IMA and IMRA continue our outreach and education to the promotional products and advertising specialty markets with more education and marketing events at the  PPAI Expo on January 16-18 and ASI Show events Jan. 2-4 in Orlando and Jan. 24-26 in Dallas.  

The IMA website redesign is almost complete and we will be launching the new websites very soon.  Watch for an email with your new website login information and let our staff know if you have any questions.  The website redesign involved a lot of diligent work from many of your colleagues across IMA and the SIGs and we thank all those involved for their dedication and hard work.

Thank you all for everything you do and here's to a successful start to the holiday season.

John Hornbogen

• The IMA booth at IMEX America, Oct. 10-12 will have representation from IMRA, ITC and IGCC members, enabling the IMA to provide a unified voice and a broad representation of reward and recognition items and experiences.

• The Rewards and Recognition Roundtable at the TEAMS Conference & Expo, Oct. 20 - Nov. 2 in Orlando will provide sports-event organizers and host cities the opportunity to understand how they can use non-cash incentive programs to achieve their objectives. Rick Low, CPIM will lead a roundtable of IMA members representing merchandise, travel and gift card incentives.

• IGCC Study Promotion Reaches a Wide Audience - Multiple posts of the study's key messages to IMA social media and sharing of the posts by IGCC members helped the IGCC to communicate the key findings with nearly 25,000 people on LinkedIn.  Viewers were highly engaged with over 180 people clicking through to learn more.