Pod Staffing are proud to be this year’s sponsor of the IPM Awards as Associate Partner.

Pod is an award-winning promotional event staffing agency that provides the perfect human connection between your brand and your audience. Their extensive experience, expertise and meticulous eye for detail help recruit a diverse network of global talent to ensure brand activations connect, engage, and run seamlessly from beginning to end.

Pod is currently being led by Simon Bexon, who has over 15 years of industry experience. Simon has overseen Pod’s recent rebrand and pushed the agency in a new direction with exciting campaigns on the horizon, such as hosting the Champions League Final in 2024.

Simon explains, “We are thrilled to be back hosting the IPM Awards again and look forward to celebrating 90 years of the IPM together with all the chosen finalists within the promotional marketing industry. Our diverse staff members have worked closely alongside the IPM Board to help deliver the running order for the event and present all awards to the finalists and winners on the day.”

Pod can provide talent from across the staffing industry which covers multiple sectors including Brand Experience, Experiential, Mystery Shopping, Retail Marketing, Merchandising and Sampling. Please contact simon.bexon@podstaffing.co.uk for any enquiries

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You can buy tickets and tables to the IPM Awards 2019 gala dinner presentation event on Thursday 4^th July here and see the full shortlist here. 

The Work Perk puts office-based sampling in the limelight as they become headline sponsor for the IPM’s two awards platforms in 2019: The Awards and COGS.

2018 saw TWP introducing themselves to the IPM Awards in fine fashion, winning GOLD in the ‘Best Product Launch’ category for their Nature Valley ‘Nut Butter’ office sampling campaign. “Little ol’ us!” they said, as their small and nimble team celebrated their first ever IPM attendance and win, amongst notable industry competition.

On the back of the awards, TWP launched themselves into 2019 with successful office sampling and experiential campaigns for Unilever’s “Pot Shop”, Cadbury Darkmilk, and  L’Oréal Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb/Flowerbomb fragrances. Furthermore, they’ve increased their North American presence tenfold, with engaging office desk drop sampling campaigns for Heineken 0.0% USA, Bahlsen Choco Leibniz, and Red Bull Tropical…no wonder more and more companies across the globe are keen to sign-up to The Work Perk for free employee rewards!

TWP are now ready to truly shine a light on their innovative work in the promotional marketing sector. The IPM Awards showcase the best of the best in the promotional marketing and brand activation space. They celebrate “brilliantly effective, insightful and creative campaigns” through recognised awards that are judged by influential industry professionals. Award categories range from “Best Insight-Led Shopper Marketing Campaign” to “Best Experiential Creative Execution”.

In true The Work Perk style, they plan to give brand and agencies attending, a unique glimpse into their sampling mechanic, as Director Craig Williams, hints: “Rewarding The Global Workforce with an awards-night twist!”.

“The IPM and The Work Perk collaboration is a natural progression for us as a specialist in BTL advertising, specifically product trial and sampling. Winning last years’ accolade of Best New Product Launch alongside our good friends at Nature Valley, gave us a platform to elevate our brand profile to FMCG brand partners and their media agencies, as a truly innovative service provider they can rely on when looking to engage consumers in a fun and exciting, results driven way. As more and more brands stand behind the performance of their products, and the experience consumers gain from trialling samples, The Work Perk’s client base in the U.K, Europe, Canada and the U.S. has seen exponential growth amongst the who’s who of the F&B & Beauty and Cosmetics Industry.

There’s been a noticeable shift in the brand strategies for a number of the major household brands & NPD’s we represent in recent times, and whilst ATL communications have historically dominated the brand strategies and subsequent budgets, the landscape is changing to support the savvy, preferred methods the end customer enjoys being impacted with when it comes to advertising. If brands and agencies are looking for an effective way to truly engage the right consumers, in the right environment, at the right consumption period – all the while doing so on mass to millions of consumers in a fun and exciting way that yields tremendous results, then we’re always here to support.

To that end, it’s an exciting opportunity to be amongst illustrious companies at the IPM awards in July, and we look forward to seeing a showcase of the best in class promotional marketing efforts our fellow service providers work so hard to achieve.”

TWP’s presence at the 2019 IPM Awards doesn’t stop there however, as they’ve also been shortlisted for their brilliant NPD campaign with Nestlé YES! Snacks – “A range of distinctive fruit and vegetable and nut bars specially crafted to be both delicious and wholesome*”

Paul Cope, Managing Director of the IPM, added: “We are absolutely thrilled to welcome The Work Perk as our headline sponsor for both of our Awards platforms this year, especially given their success at the 2018 Awards. Fingers crossed, they’re able to repeat that success this year!”

You can read more about TWP’s shortlist announcement at: https://www.theworkperk.com/the-work-perk-yes-snacks-sampling-shortlisted-ipm-awards/

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