HUB Promotional Group’s Hub Pen Company accepted the Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) Gold Pyramid Award at the PPAI Pyramid Award Celebration held Jan. 15, 2019 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, in conjunction with The PPAI Expo in…
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The ‘Instagram Egg’ Merch Wars
#LikeTheEgg #EggSoldiers #EggGang. Do those hashtags mean anything to you? If so, you were part of the weird Instagram phenomenon that got a picture of a brown egg to be the most liked image in Instagram history. And, of course, there is merch…
Read MoreHow a Promotional T-shirt for a Town of 6,000 Made It to ‘Stranger Things’
When a town’s chief claim to fame is being the birthplace of the man who coined the term “spelunker,” any chance to gain renown is likely a welcomed one. Such is the case with Waupaca, Wis., whose population, while growing, has barely eclipsed 6,000 residents. No matter, the tiny city found itself on a T-shirt in “Stranger Things,” the hit Netflix series…
Read MoreThe Vernon Company Hires Miller and Patton as Regional Managers
The Vernon Company, Newton, Iowa, announced that it recently hired Jack Miller as its Western regional sales manager and Pat Patton as its Eastern regional sales manager. While integrated into the sales management team, both Miller and Patton work with Vernon’s top…
Read MoreWhy United Airlines Got a Fashion Designer to Redesign Its Women’s Uniforms
Last year, United Airlines announced it was launching new uniforms for its employees. There was no major PR unveil, like Delta Airlines had, and no complaints of rashes or hives, as with American Airlines. But it looks like United is going one step further, employing famed fashion designer Tracy Reese to outfit its female employees with styles specific to their needs…
Read MoreNobody Buys Music Anymore, So Merchandise Bundles Are the Future
Buying an album isn’t just buying an album anymore. Even if you go the classic method and buy an album on vinyl or (gasp) CD, most artists these days have some sort of promotional tie-in to sweeten the deal, or at least make the whole thing more interesting to people who otherwise aren’t buying it. That brings with a whole bunch of questions…
Read MoreGuardian Report Links Spice Girls Women’s Charity Tees to Factory With ‘Inhuman Conditions’
The Spice Girls have found themselves at the center of a sourcing controversy after a recent report from the Guardian concluded that the band’s recent “#IWannaBeASpiceGirl” charity T-shirts were manufactured at a Bangladesh plant under allegedly “inhuman” working conditions.
Read MoreThis New Promotional Plush Bat From Ozzy Osbourne Is Brilliant
Ozzy Osbourne chose to mark the occasion of his most infamous metal moment by releasing a promotional plush bat that, yep, has a detachable head. The branded plush, a callback to the iconic set in which Osbourne bit the head off a possibly still-living bat, sold out of its first run…
Read MoreWinners of Promo Marketing’s PPAI Booth and Happy Hour Raffle/Contest
If you stopped into our Power Meeting happy hour or visited our booth at the PPAI Expo last week in Las Vegas, you might have entered one of our raffles. Well, now we can finally announce the winners!…
Read MoreThe PPAI Expo 2019: Best Attended, Exceeds Expectations
Last week, Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), Irving, Texas, presented The PPAI Expo, the world’s largest and longest running promotion products industry trade show, with more than 13,000 promotional consultants from nearly 4,000 distributor companies and 30 countries in attendance. Promotional products industry professionals from around the world converged in Las Vegas to experience the…
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