With regret, we shall no longer be able to show the Promota membership logo against member companies in Sourcing City, Sourcing Planet or Promotional Directory. We have been advised that following a Promota committee meeting last week that the Promota membership list will not be provided to us as a Promota member, or as service to the trade. The Promota membership list has for several years been openly available to all members, & downloadable from the website, however we have been advised that the members list is no longer available to members. Members can now only communicate with other Promota members via ‘PromotaMail’. We had made a special request for a list to validate the Promota members in our database, however this has been refused. Therefore, without the ability to validate members we have had no choice other than to remove the Promota logo against all members. The decision of the Promota committee is ludicrous from our point of view & in many ways quite sad.


The consequence of Promota decision means that distributor users of Sourcing City will no longer be able to immediately see that a supplier is a Promota member, it also means that end users using Sourcing Planet or Promotional Directory will not be able to see that a distributor is a Promota member. Users of our online services will however continue to see which companies are BPMA members, as they happily provide members information to us for the benefit of their members. Whilst we have for many years been an ardent & vocal supporter of Promota we are really concerned that this, & many other recent decisions, continue to contribute to the evident demise of a once important & respected trade association.

Published on: August 3rd, 2010