If the promotional products industry ever gave out "Good Sport" awards, Kelly Chiccitt would win one hands down. Kelly, the marketing VP of distributor HDS Marketing (asi/216807) in Pittsburgh, returned from a week's vacation Monday morning to learn she’d "volunteered" to star in the latest episode of Promocar Talk, a livestream interview in the #ASIPromocar that’s part of ASI’s PR campaign to spread positive publicity about the industry (while having a little fun along the way) during a week-long trip to visit member companies in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York.

Undeterred, Kelly jumped right in, graciously driving around hilly Pittsburgh in the 5-speed Mazda with the squeaky clutch. Kelly’s a communications ace who entered the promotional products industry in 1988 and has worked at HDS’s 35,000-square-foot facility in Pittsburgh for the last 14 years. "We're growing," she says of the award-winning company, which has 80 employees at locations in Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cleveland, Phoenix and Kansas City. What makes HDS so successful? "Nothing beats face-to-face contact for connecting with clients," says Kelly, who also added her name to the hundreds who've signed the Promocar over the last 3 years. Thanks, Kelly!