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New Job, 1st Expo, Chamber's Justin Kropff Gives His Assessment
As the newly named director of marketing and communications for the Greater Brandon Chamber of Commerce, Justin Kropff said he moved to Tampa to join his wife, Allison Kropff, who works at WTSP Channel 10 News.
Justin Kropff got his first look this year at the annual Brandon Business Expo & Taste of Brandon, presented by the Greater Brandon Chamber of Commerce at the Florida State Fairgrounds.
“This was more energy than I expected,” said Kropff, the newly named director of communications and marketing for the Brandon chamber. “I was really impressed with the number of food vendors."
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In all, 108 businesses had booths at the Ma7 17 Brandon Business Expo, including 26 restaurants that offered samples of menu items that attendees voted on for the "Taste of Brandon" competition (to see who won, read ).
“The layout was very patron friendly,” Kropff said. "At every turn there were surprises.”
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Kropff said he started his job Dec. 11, having moved to the area from Tennessee, where he was the communications manager for the Knoxville Chamber. There, he met his wife, Allison Kropff, who moved to Tampa for her job at WTSP Channel 10 News.
“We moved here for my wife’s career,” Kropff said. “We met in that industry, I was the ‘sports dude.’ She came to the station I was working at.”
As for his assessment of the Tampa Bay area and his new job at the Brandon chamber?
“This is a great market,” Kropff said. “And it’s terrific to be at such a great chamber.”
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