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Toddy Gear, Chicago, announced the addition of Amanda Maynord as key account manager. In her role, Maynord is tasked with strategically building sales revenue with some of Toddy Gear’s most strategic distributors while prospecting and growing future sales with some of its new clients. “I am so excited to…
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After Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson left a playoff game against the Buffalo Bills due to injury last month, Bills fans showed their support for Jackson by donating $500,000 to his favorite charity, Blessings in a Backpack. To show its gratitude, the charity released…
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Consolidated Marketing Services (CMS) announced the acquisition of award-winning promotional merchandise agency Progressive Promotions. The merger creates one of the largest certified women-owned promotional merchandise agencies in the U.S….
Read MoreLast year, a staffer at the Canadian embassy in Beijing reportedly designed shirts parodying the Wu-Tang Clan “W” logo, with “Wuhan” written in the middle of the logo. Months later, the shirts caught the attention of Chinese government officials, forcing Canada to apologize and explain…
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On Monday, BAMKO LLC announced that it acquired Gifts By Design to operate as its awards, recognition and incentives division. The move is noteworthy not just for the size of the two companies, but for what it says about the post-pandemic future of promo, at least in the near term…
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HPG and Fracture, a leading direct-to-consumer brand, announced that they have entered into an exclusive partnership designed to bring Fracture’s products to the promotional products industry. The announcement is the first in a series of exclusive retail brand partnerships HPG will unveil in 2021…
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The Promotional Products Association of Florida and the Promotional Products Association Midwest is ready to take Super Bowl 55 to the next level with a little friendly competition. The two organizations have made a bet about the outcome of the game. With the Tampa Bay Buccaneers playing against the Kansas City Chiefs, the PPAF board…
Read MorePresident Biden’s COVID-19 Response Team is working on the logistics of sending millions of face masks to U.S. citizens. The plan is still in the early stages, but some of the administration’s top health experts have been discussing its viability. It’s similar to a plan the Trump administration considered but ultimately scrapped in 2020…
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You know how people stay until the end of a movie, mostly Marvel movies, just in case there’s a fun post-credits scene? If you sat through a nine-minute video of a guy eating a Fritos Chili Cheese Jr. Wrap to the end, you’d have been rewarded with the news that Sonic was selling a giant fleece wrap for only 99 cents…
Read MoreE-sports are becoming a huge market for branded merchandise. And now, a rule change within the Overwatch League has allowed teams to source their own promotional apparel and products. Previously, the Overwatch League and its teams were bound by contract to Fanatics. This was pretty big news, considering Fanatics had only dealt with “traditional sports,”…
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