The PAGE Group hosted the 22nd annual awards conference and dinner at the Arden Hotel in Birmingham on Thursday 13th June 2013.

The conference was attended by PAGE members with talks from Gordon Glenister of the BPMA highlighting their new Education Programme, and Andrew Talbot of Gateway 3D who spoke about how technology is changing the market place.

In the evening the awards dinner was attended by nearly 150 dinner guests including some of the top UK business gift suppliers and distributors.

The awards evening opened with an informal talk by Brian Hayward, partner of PAGE, who spoke of the importance of customer relationships in the current economic climate.

The winner of the PAGE 2013 Distributor Gold Award was presented to John Price of Merchandise Mania with silver awards going to, Chris Witt of BH1, Blair Carroll of Boosters, Suzie Mundy of Hambleside Business Gift Solutions, Lloyd Simpson of LSI and Andrew Nash of Sussex Promotions.

Supplier silver awards were presented to Richie Wilson of Dunelm Glass Ltd, Ian Hill of FleQs Promotional Products, Sue Moth of B Sanders Ltd and Andrew Hill of Senator Pens.  Terri Baker of Pen Warehouse was the proud winner of the PAGE 2013 Supplier Gold Award

After dinner the guests were entertained by the award-winning comedian Gary Marshall, whose unique style and deadpan delivery went down a storm.

The following day some of the survivors attended a multi-activity day at Adventure Sports in Warwick.  The activities included Powerturns, Crossbows, Reverse Steer Snooker and a team building activity.  The winning team included Peter Slater of Silk Promotions,  Angela Andrews of Arrow Corporate Promotions, Chris Dickinson of LSi Ltd, Keith Rowe of The Business Gift Company Ltd, Brian Bass of Travel Trade Products Ltd and Brian Hayward of PAGE Partnership.