Consider a competent senior manager who confronts a problem. The CEO learns of this issue and steps in with the answer/solution. Problem solved and time to move on. But what just happened here?
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Proforma Expands Its Business Software Suite
The Counselor Top 40 distributor has launched ProMatch, which screens and matches acquisition and sales professional candidates with distributor owners.
Read MoreConvergence Corner: Lessons in Growth From Brewery Branding Co.
Brewery Branding Co. Founder Jeremy Wood details how his distributorship grew alongside the craft beer boom and how it successfully brought decoration in-house.
Read MoreSubmissions Are Open for Print & Promo Marketing’s 2025 Top Print Suppliers
Print & Promo Marketing is looking for North America’s leading print suppliers for our annual ranking of the industry’s top companies, and your company could be included.
Read MoreTexas Promo Firms Support Relief Efforts Following Deadly Flash Floods
Some in the industry had personal connections to the tragedy that unfolded in the Texas Hill Country.
Read MoreHow Supply Chain Woes & Distributor Creativity Are Spurring Gift Card Sales for MediaTree
General Manager Brian Duran partially attributes MediaTree’s substantial sales growth this year to distributors getting creative with gift cards when tariffs disrupted plans.
Read MoreObituary: Paula Shulman, Prime Line
The 2008 Counselor Woman of Distinction and former longtime executive at Prime Line, passed away this week.
Read MoreOverture Promotions Names Tej Shah CEO, Succeeding Jo Gilley
Shah was previously executive vice president of global sales and marketing at the Counselor Top 40 distributor.
Read MoreBillie Eilish & UMG Upcycle 400K Unsold Concert Tees Into New Merch
Universal Music Group’s merch arm is set to send the shirts to Morocco to be unspun and then upcycled into 100% cotton tees for European tour legs in the fall.
Read MoreTrump Issues Executive Order Delaying Reciprocal Tariffs to August 1
The reciprocal tariffs announced April 2 were supposed to take effect this week. The president also sent letters to a handful of companies indicating new rates.
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