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Here at Promo Marketing, we embrace some of the more, let’s say, “interesting” stories that relate to the promotional products world. We always try to keep things entertaining and have a little fun while keeping our readers informed. Today, let’s take a look at a few of the weirder stories we reported on this year. Have fun!…
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Local students learned about promotional product production and distribution as employees of the BIC Graphic storefront at Stavros Institute’s Enterprise Village recently. The promo supplier has participated in the program for more than 20 years. Stavros Institute’s Enterprise Village is a self-contained economic education program that provides a hands-on learning experience for students. After learning…
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Participating in charity fundraisers during this holiday season, Proforma’s Worldwide Support Center in Cleveland collected numerous donations to help women, children and families in the local area. Each donation was brought in by employees to support three fundraisers: a pack-a-purse, an adopt-a-family program and a food drive. The pack-a-purse donations were collected in November for…
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When they’re not talking about Weezer, “Jurassic Park” or “Star Wars,” the PM Podcast crew had some great conversations with people from all across the industry, from suppliers and distributors to end-buyers and more. Here are a few of those episodes to either revisit or listen to for the first time…
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It felt like it rained for a month straight here in Philadelphia, but we managed to get out into the world and find a few promotional products that caught our eyes. Check out this week’s edition of our five favorite promotional products, which include a neat idea using coasters, a meat-heavy holiday shop and the return of KFC’s chicken-scented firelog…
Read MoreThere’s no denying how good bacon smells. And now, this online retailer is selling T-shirts scented like bacon (and a whole bunch of other stuff), so you can go around all day smelling like your favorite breakfast food. Call us crazy, but this is a sweet, or maybe savory, idea. The shirts are printed with a “scent-infused gel application” to…
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Rocket Lab is an aerospace company whose business involves launching small satellites into space for paying customers. Like many companies, it has an online merch store with various T-shirts and other branded items. Unlike many companies, it’s also selling a $7.5 million gold coin. The coin, available in two styles, can actually be obtained for free, sort of…
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Where would we be without apparel? Well, we probably wouldn’t be in public, that’s for sure. Colder, too. Jokes aside, promotional apparel remains the top selling category for the industry. So, naturally, we covered it a lot this year. Here are 10 of our most-read, favorite or otherwise noteworthy apparel stories from 2019…
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Of the many notable statistics in PPAI’s 2019 Consumer Study, here’s one that really stands out: The percentage of consumers who value sustainability consistently rises with each successive generation. Just 8 percent of boomers and 10 percent of Gen Xers said they care about sustainable promotional products, but the…
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Popeyes’ chicken sandwich launched over the summer, promptly sold out nationwide, and relaunched again in November to impossibly long drive-thru lines and the occasional parking lot brawl. Demand has since returned to normal. But, considering its enormous popularity, there was a baffling lack of chicken sandwich merch. Until now…
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