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Celebrating a business’ anniversary is certainly a time for celebration. Especially when a business has been around for four decades. Lisa Greer, director of sales for National Awards Inc., Jackson, Miss., remembers one particular instance where her company helped a customer kick its birthday…
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Over its 99-year history, Balenciaga has enjoyed considerable clout as a fashion bigwig, with fellow designer Christian Dior dubbing its namesake, Cristobal Balenciaga, “the master of us all.” If, however, the Paris-based luxury fashion house continues to end up in trademark trouble, one might be tempted to christen him and his workforce “the imitators of…
Read MoreA lot of people like to debate the merits of film. Everyone has a favorite. Some people like “Gone With the Wind.” Others like “The Godfather.” Me? My favorite movie of all time is the promo ad for the Montegrappa Chaos Watch and Pens, which were designed by Sylvester Stallone. Before I go any further…
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Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed taking a (presumably) tongue-in-cheek shot at Major League Baseball’s playoff hoodies. These are the ones—adorned with each team’s postseason slogan and logo and various MLB branding—that players wear in the dugout, because October baseball is a frigid, hellish nightmare that serves only to remind us…
Read MoreAxes are having a weird moment right now. Yes, of course it’s Halloween time, but I’m not talking about spooky axes. I’m talking about your run-of-the-mill, lumberjacky axes. They’re design elements in boutique stores selling things I can’t afford, gentrifying neighborhoods are suddenly full of axe-throwing venues, and it seems like every groomsman is getting…
Read MoreWe here at Promo Marketing have covered Taco Bell so much lately that—given our very impressionable appetites—we fully expect for our waistlines to pay the oh-so-acceptable consequences. While we bask in our bulk when not on company time, we could certainly see ourselves housing some tacos as we play video games because, well, dishes and…
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Noodles & Company, one of the largest fast-casual restaurant chains in the country, recently recognized New Berlin, Wisconsin-based CSE Powered by HALO as its Non-Food Vendor of the Year at its annual conference in Las…
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Stran Promotional Solutions, Quincy, Mass., announced the hire of Erika DeCree as director of client services. DeCree joins the team at Stran with the goal of building on Stran’s customer-centric approach and its goal of being a solutions provider to its customers. In addition to potential structural changes and process improvements, DeCree will help bring…
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Think about the last restaurant you went to. Picture the room, if you can. You likely saw plenty of advertisements for brands other than the restaurant you were in. If it’s a popular chain or hometown favorite, you might have spotted some branded merchandise for that particular establishment, but chances are you saw plenty of…
Read MoreThe internet gives anybody, anywhere in the world, the ability to create something without having to deal with traditional gatekeepers. That can be good or bad, depending on the situation. In the case of the nearly 2,000 fake Women’s March event pages set up to scam Facebook users into buying T-shirts, it was definitely bad…
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