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…
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Nobody 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…
Read MoreChocolate Inn/Lanco Combines Embroidery Business With Shoreline Monogramming
Chocolate Inn/Lanco announced the combination of its screen print and embroidery decorating business, Screen Printers Design (SPD), with Shoreline Monogramming Inc. to form SPD/Shoreline, as the group will now be called. Shoreline, founded in 1984 and based in Westchester County, N.Y., is a long-established leader in the embroidery and screen-printing business, servicing major retailer and…
Read MoreChris Jenkin on Getting People to Your Website, Marketing Your Promo Business Online
Back in 2011, the idea of anything being digital or something being “online” was nothing like it is today. Creating and marketing your business online has changed a ton. Everyone is online now, and they’re all searching the web. What are they searching for? You, as it turns out. Chris Jenkin, CEO and founder of gotcha! Mobile Solutions, shared some ways to help them find you…
Read MoreSmall Drinkware Maker Sued by NHL Over Stanley Cup Beer Mug Is Fighting Back
The NHL is waging a trademark violation war against The Hockey Cup LLC, contending that the Illinois-based company is jeopardizing its brand integrity by hawking a mug dubbed the “Stanley Stein.” Now, it appears that the small drinkware company won’t be backing down from the NHL’s litigation threat…
Read More‘To Catch a Predator’ Host Charged With Writing Bad Checks for Promo Items
Why don’t you take a seat right there? Chris Hansen, best known as the host of MSNBC’s “To Catch a Predator,” was arrested for writing bogus checks for $13,000 worth of promotional products. USA Today reported that Hansen was arrested last Monday and charged with issuing fraudulent checks…
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