In January, Amazon quietly purchased Selz, a small Australian startup that, like Shopify, allows businesses to easily set up online stores. What exactly the company plans to do with Selz is still unclear, but we have some guesses—an obvious one, and a speculative one with branded merchandise implications…
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Hanesbrands Will Phase Out PPE Business as Part of Long-Term Growth Strategy
Nearly a year after first making face masks and PPE products for health care workers, Hanesbrands announced that it will exit the PPE business, focusing instead on its Champion brand and expanding its e-commerce offering. Hanesbrands said it no longer sees PPE as a long-term growth opportunity…
Read MoreVF Corporation Plans to Eliminate Single-Use Plastics by 2025
VF Corporation, parent company of major apparel and accessory brands like JanSport, Timberland, North Face and Supreme, announced a new initiative to eliminate all single-use packaging, including polybags, by 2025. The plan extends to VF Corporation’s offices and sponsored events…
Read MoreHSBC’s Online B2B Platform Allows Apparel Sellers to Trace Product Origins and Avoid Forced Labor
Serai, a digital B2B platform from HSBC, allows apparel suppliers to put in supply chain details for each step of the manufacturing and distribution process, so companies that buy the products can see how and where they were made, from raw materials to the finished product…
Read MoreOur 5 Favorite Promotional Products of the Week: Colorful Notebooks, ‘Toy Story 4’ Forky Kits and More
Snow days were fun as a kid, but long weekends as an adult are hard to beat. The recent long weekend meant we had some extra time to prepare for this week’s edition of our five favorite promotional products, which includes a ‘Toy Story 4’ build-your-own-Forky kit, a killer notebook and some other great items…
Read More9 (Non-Mask) Product Ideas for the Health Care Market
Assisted living facilities, primary care doctors, dental offices—all have had to learn and adapt as they balance staff and patient safety with business and operational needs. Distributors have had to adapt, too, as they look to keep providing health care customers with the best and most critical print and promotional products—PPE and otherwise…
Read MoreADG Promo Products Announces Rebrand
ADG Promo Products announced the launch of its new brand identity, redesigned logo and website. This comes as the supplier builds on its momentum with growth in its new product lines. The new logo and brand identity are now live, while the website is planned for relaunch at the beginning of April…
Read MoreToddy Gear Promotes Kristian Pawlikowski to Regional Sales Manager
Toddy Gear, Chicago, announced the promotion of Kristian Pawlikowski to regional sales manager. In his new role, Pawlikowski will continue to develop existing relationships within the Midwest, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan and Indiana, while prospecting and identifying new customers to further increase Toddy Gears footprint in its…
Read MoreTinder Wants to Make Its Own Line of ‘Tinder Made’ Smartphone Accessories, Apparel and More
If you use Tinder as a dating app, you want to protect your phone, right? If your phone cracks or breaks, it’d be hard to find love. Tinder is looking to solve that problem with its own proprietary mobile accessories (and other items), based on a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office application for “Tinder Made” products that was accepted on Jan. 20…
Read MoreOatly Outsmarted Twitter Trolls Hating On Its Super Bowl Commercial by Giving Away a T-shirt About Hating Its Commercial
Did you catch the Oatly commercial during the Super Bowl where the company’s CEO sang a jingle about how it’s “like milk, but made for humans,” while playing a keyboard in the middle of a field? Did you hate it? Did you hate it enough to wear a T-shirt telling everybody how much you hated it? Oatly won’t be offended. In fact, it was kind of banking on that happening…
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