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HALO Branded Solutions, Sterling, Ill., announced the hiring of Heather Bridges as the company’s new chief financial officer. Bridges will succeed Linda Janczkowski, who announced her intention in July to reduce her role within HALO. Bridges will report to HALO CEO Marc Simon. Bridges has had a distinguished career…
Read MoreWe admit that we laughed a bit upon learning that today is National Shower With a Friend Day, apparently, but we confess that we revised our shopping lists when reading that it’s also World Nutella Day. We know there’s always room for Jell-O, but everyone who can should make ample space for the hazelnut spread,…
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Bella+Canvas, Los Angeles, launched a new online education course for promotional products industry professionals called the “Fashion Apparel Masterclass,” or “FAM” for short. Bella+Canvas set out to create a masterclass that addresses the challenges specific to the promotional products industry and provides solutions that will give members the tools to sell more premium apparel, and…
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A federal grand jury in Texas has indicted Taiwanese company G Nova Corp and its CEO over price fixing schemes relating to promotional products. A second company, NetBrands Media Corp. and two of its executives, have already agreed to plead guilty to similar, but unrelated, charges, per Reuters…
Read MoreWhat would the world be without Tinder? For one thing, the global news cycle would be far less interesting or disturbing, depending on how one chooses to categorize some of the most recent stories involving the six-year-old dating application. With the ultimate commercialized observance, Valentine’s Day, a little more than a week away, the Tinder…
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Polyconcept, New Kensington, Pa., announced the appointment of Neil Ringel as its new CEO, effective today. Ringel, whose resume most recently includes head of corporate development for Staples, will replace Gene Colleran, PCNA’s CEO since 2015. “We appreciate Gene’s many contributions to Polyconcept and wish him the very best,” Josh Klevens, managing director at Charlesbank…
Read MoreWhen they visit Little Caesars Arena tonight to face the Detroit Red Wings, the Toronto Maple Leafs would love to focus solely on their immediate competition and the other foes they will face as the NHL playoff race intensifies. However, the historic franchise has another sort of opponent that it’s looking to skate past: Calvin…
Read MoreMany people have affectionately come to refer to Atlanta as “Hotlanta,” but the NFL wants to make sure that the modified name refers only to the Georgia city’s temperatures and not the quality of the merchandise sold in conjunction with Super Bowl LIII. Beginning today and lasting through noon on Monday, the league—thanks to a…
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Prime Line, Bridgeport, Conn., the hard goods division of alphabroder, launched 250 new items at the industry’s January trade shows and in its 2019 “New and Favorites” catalog. The favorites among distributors at the shows were the Prime-designed Pull-Topper and MopToppers Webcam Security Cover, the Light-Up-Your-Logo Collection, and Marble journals. “Innovative products have always been…
Read MoreToday I want to talk to you about a Netflix show I’ve been watching. It’s quite possibly the dumbest show I’ve seen in a long time, and it’s called “Slobby’s World.” It’s a show about a caveman-looking fella named Robert “Slobby” Hall who runs a vintage clothing shop in Arizona called Generation Cool. He takes…
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