Following its organizational restructure announcements last month, Goldstar announced three new key hires within its sales and marketing teams, taking the next step in strengthening its market position and value of simplicity…
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Promotional Writing Instruments: Trends, Sales Challenges and Opportunities
How do you go about selecting winning writing instruments that customers and end-users will love? We asked four supplier experts about what end-users are looking for in their writing instruments, updated trends and products, sales challenges and more…
Read MoreRobinhood Investors Use Earnings Call to Ask the Big Question: When Can We Get Branded Merch?
Robinhood, the stock trading and investing app, held its second quarter earnings call last week, giving shareholders the opportunity to ask questions about the company’s financials. The fifth top-voted question: When can we get some Robinhood branded merch?
Read MoreBarstool Sports Has Signed Thousands of College Athletes to NIL Partnerships, But No One (Not Even Barstool) Seems to Know the Plan
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy posted on Instagram in July that college athletes could sign on as a Barstool Athlete and, in exchange, receive Barstool-branded merchandise. Other than that, no one—not even Portnoy—seems to know what exactly these partnerships will entail…
Read MoreBAMKO Named Top 3 Best Place to Work In Los Angeles for Third Time in Four Years
BAMKO has been named the No. 3 best place to work in Los Angeles among medium-sized companies for 2021 by the Los Angeles Business Journal. This marks the third time in four years that BAMKO has been recognized as one of the top three workplaces in Los Angeles…
Read MoreWhat Promo Companies Made the 2021 Inc. 5000 List?
Here’s the full list of promotional products companies we found on the 2021 Inc. 5000 list. Like before, while many are traditional promotional products businesses, the changing nature of the industry has created space for companies that may fall outside the “traditional” definition…
Read MoreProforma Convention Brings Industry Leaders Together for First In-Person Event After 2 Years
Proforma last week kicked off its “Together”-themed 2021 Convention and Family Reunion at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Proforma brought together owners, sales representatives, support staff and preferred supplier partners to celebrate the business success of the owners, participate in more than 80 educational seminars, network with industry leaders, and…
Read MoreWhataburger’s New Co-Branded Fishing Apparel Line Somehow Makes a Lot of Sense
Whataburger isn’t just famous in Texas for its food. It’s also known to have some pretty killer branded merchandise. It’s so well-known for that, in fact, that people have posed as employees to get their hands on exclusive stuff. The chain’s newest merchandise venture is aimed at outdoor sports enthusiasts…
Read MoreMinnesota Twins Look to Draw Younger Fans to the Ballpark With ‘McDonald’s Approach’ to Merch
The Minnesota Twins are taking a “McDonald’s approach” to ballpark promos. No, they’re not replacing dollar dog night with discounted Big Macs. But they are borrowing from McDonald’s recent merchandise playbook with a ballpark-exclusive capsule collection and a focus on social commerce…
Read MoreThis Apparel Company Turns Ticket Stubs Into T-shirts, Face Masks and More
Most music fans have a collection of concert ticket stubs. Maybe they’re in an old shoebox in their bedrooom. Maybe they’re more artfully laid out in a scrapbook or binder. Or maybe they’re forever immortalized on a T-shirt by Stub Stories Apparel, a Los Angeles-based apparel company…
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