More than 10,000 distributors on Tuesday flooded the aisles of the trade floor at The PPAI Expo 2025 – the largest and longest-running trade show in the promotional products industry.

Covering roughly 1 million square feet in scope, the trade floor featured more than 2,600 booths and nearly 1,000 exhibitors, offering the latest products in every category.

A few distributors stopped to tell PPAI Media about their favorite products they saw on the show floor Tuesday.

Annie Siamwala, an account manager at Oregon-based distributor Buzztag, said her favorite product was Numo’s disc journals that put a different spin on the rings that hold most journals together.

“Numo’s great,” Siamwala says. “They have notebooks with these little discs instead of the rings that you can color coordinate.”

  • PupLid (PPAI 824681, Standard) from the New Product Pavilion

Gemma Zuniga, senior account manager at Concord, California-based distributor Promo Dog was perhaps fittingly enamored with the dog hat that she saw in the New Product Pavillion from PupLid.

“I love dogs, and I’m going to get one for my dog,” Zuniga says.

Hazel Hansen, an account manager at Buzztag, said that she always checks out Spector & Co’s bag selection and was not disappointed this year.

“I loved Spector & Co’s new bags in their ‘Call of the Wild’ line,” Hansen says. “They have really cool colors and super soft materials.”

Kelly McKenney, sales representative at Promo Dog was walking the New Product Pavillion when she saw something unique that was perfect for one of her clients.

“I work with a lot of construction companies, and one in particular likes to give little trinkets to her employees and customers,” McKenney says. “I saw that and knew exactly what I’m going to send her when I get home.”