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Well, folks, here we are at the start of Labor Day Weekend. For many, it’s the official end of summer and the window of time where it’s acceptable to wear white clothes. How 2019 has flown by so quickly, we’ll never know. What we do know is that it was an eventful summer in the…
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Gill Line, Lenexa, Kan., announced that former vice president of marketing Carl Gerlach will be inducted into the PPAI Hall of Fame at The PPAI Expo in Las Vegas, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, at the…
Read MoreDisney’s rad thermal-detonator-shaped Coca-Cola bottles are back in the news, but for a less fun reason. If you’re visiting the immersive Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge theme park locations in California or Florida, then you can throw around the bottles as much as you want. Just don’t plan on taking them home as a souvenir from your trip to a galaxy far, far away. That is, at least, if you’re flying home…
Read MoreBud Light is bringing back a popular promotion from last season: “Victory Fridges,” the beer-filled promotional refrigerators that would “unlock” once the Browns finally notched a win. Come Sept. 3 and 4, Bud Light will team up with the Browns to hawk the branded fridges to rabid fans through a pop-up shop creatively dubbed B.L. & Brown’s Appliance Superstore…
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HALO Branded Solutions announced a major expansion of the company’s corporate headquarters in Sterling, Ill. The expansion comes just 16 months after the completion of HALO’s new corporate headquarters, and will include an additional 253,300 sq. ft. of warehouse space and 23,500 sq. ft. of office and meeting space. When the project is completed in early…
Read MoreThe VMAs might not be getting the viewership of other big-name entertainment parties, like the Grammys or the Oscars, but the show is still a major party in the music biz. And, because of that, the organizers don’t typically skimp on the swag bags that attendees receive. Like other events, there are glitzy gifts—shopping sprees,…
Read MoreOther than expanding its printing capacity for on-demand apparel, it’s been a pretty quiet summer for Amazon apparel news. Or so we thought. It turns out the retailer has been making some moves in the apparel sector, and we thought it was a good time to check in. Here are three of the bigger ones…
Read MoreIn 2012, a Kentucky print shop called Hands On Originals refused to print shirts for a gay pride festival after Blaine Adamson, co-owner and manager of the shop, objected to the messaging on the T-shirts. A lengthy legal battle ensued, and the case is now headed to the Kentucky Supreme Court, with implications for T-shirt printers…
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Calling the matchup between Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova a “rivalry” really tests the limits of the word, as though they have met 22 times and on many big occasions, the former leads their head-to-head 20-2. The latest drubbing came Monday night during the U.S. Open, and while the victory for Williams drew plaudits, a DARE T-shirt that her husband Alexis Ohanian donned was the real star…
Read Morethe U.S. tends to import more women’s apparel from China than it does men’s apparel. According to the Wall Street Journal, 42 percent of women’s and girls’ clothes and shoes came from China in 2018, whereas the percentage for men’s and boys’ clothes and shoes was 26 percent. That comes out to $23.5 billion worth of women’s apparel, versus $10.9 billion for men’s…
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