CHICAGO—October 17, 2002--Paint Me A Party Productions has changed its name to Image Pilots and expanded its services, according to Sally Schwartz, founder and creative director. Image Pilots combines special event, meeting planning, incentive travel, and destination management services with a global network of organizations and specialized resources. The firm, launched earlier this year, includes both a full service event production company and a network of the event industry’s finest suppliers, ranging from individual and ensemble talent including actors, artists, specialty caterers and chefs, musicians, locations, transportation, and other unique event-makers, from the obscure to the renowned. Image Pilots includes Paint Me A Party Productions, Chicago's premiere party and business event planning service, founded in 1985 by Schwartz. Image Pilots continues to provide business incentive programs to corporations, as established by Paint Me A Party over the years.
“Image Pilots provides strategic navigation complemented by a worldwide network of talent for our clients’ event strategy and production. Our solid network of friends and business associates, built over the years with the constant addition of new talent, encircles the globe. We concentrate on building and supporting an organization's image, to help executives meet their business goals,” said Schwartz. “Over the past few years, we have learned that the old-fashioned event planning company model no longer provides the business structure required to meet the needs of clients who operate across time zones, and state and national boundaries,” she continued.
Windy City Welcome, Chicago area destination management services; Best Booth, trade show booth design and related promotion; and Rally the Troops, executive incentive, motivational and group travel, now compliment Paint Me A Party Productions, Image Pilots’ flagship business event, meeting and party operations. Also among Image Pilots’ new suite of services are communications support divisions: Impressionistas, which creates larger scale events from festivals to consumer product launches and promotions; Imprintments, producing event identity graphics, gifts and packaging, and Brandiose, for communications, advertising, publicity, and media relations services.
Image Pilots and Paint Me A Party Productions are included among the “Top 50 Event Planning Companies” listed recently in the Special Events Magazine September 2002 annual industry roundup issue. Image Pilots headquarters is at 625 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 500, Chicago, Illinois. Telephone is (312) 666-1200. Image Pilots is on the Web at www.imagepilots.com, and Paint Me A Party Productions is at www.paintmeaparty.com.