About APPG

APPG – ASSOCIATION OF STATIONERY AND GIFT PROFESSIONALS is a national non-profit organization whose purpose is:

Defend and promote the interests of the individual or collective entities that it represents, in the economic activities of Stationery and Gifts, namely, manufacturers, importers, distributors, retailers or others.

OBJECTIVES

The APPG proposes, among others, the following objectives:

• Represent the interest of all its Stationery and Gift associates before entities, organisations and authorities in Portugal.
• Encourage and assist the sustained development of all associates, and thus the Stationery and Gift sector itself.
• Inform, publicize and provide tools or services that aim at the continuous improvement of all its associates.
• Create, encourage and participate in activities that stimulate and promote the development of the Stationery and Gift sector.
• Develop efforts to reduce the VAT rate on essential school products, in order to provide opportunities of learning for all.

To achieve its purposes, APPG will make efforts to:

• Hold a fair/exhibition with various exhibitors from the Stationery and Gift sector, created by professionals for professionals, in a location to be defined.
• Creation of a website to provide relevant information available to all associates.
• Communicate with a single voice the various problems and difficulties that affect associates, whether manufacturers, importers, distributors, retailers, or others, with the competent entities.