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Many NCAA Tournament devotees had supreme confidence that a club from the Southeastern Conference would advance to the Final Four, but few likely believed the represented athletes would not be the white-and-blue-clad Wildcats from the…
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Komori America Corporation, Rolling Meadows, Ill., announced today that 4over Inc., Moonachie, N.J., has purchased three new Komori Lithrone machines. The addition of the new Komori presses not only adds to 4over Inc.’s capacity to enable fast delivery, but also makes it possible to produce photo-quality print on a variety of substrates, from business cards…
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After the University of North Dakota rebranded its sports teams as the Fighting Hawks, it unveiled a newly designed logo, featuring a tough-looking hawk on top of green lettering. While the university was content with…
Read MorePromo Marketing’s Video Battle pits two industry videos against each other for the chance at the ultimate bragging right: Being declared our readership’s absolute favorite. (Next up: My bracket is completely busted, just like every other year.) Last week, LogoTech won, and now will face off against MARCO Promotional Products. The winner will be decided by a simple…
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In her 1913 poem “Sacred Emily,” Gertrude Stein declares “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” giving us a precursor to today’s ubiquitous and highly less poetic “It is what it is” notion. Had the celebrated scribe been a contemporary writer, she might have had to alter her thinking thanks to The…
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Pro Towels, Pittsburgh, Pa., announce the launch of FOTO Vison. FOTO Vision creates sharp, vivid images where creativity has no limits. Pro Towels will offer no setup charges and minimums as low as one piece for most FOTO Vision products. “Dye sub is far from new in our industry, but the ability to produce it…
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Spider silk certainly has its benefits: It’s lightweight, stretchy and durable. It’s also environmentally friendly. But, the problem is that spider silk isn’t always cost-efficient or easy to produce. That is, until a Bay Area company called Bolt Threads developed a synthetic spider silk material, and is testing it out on ties first. Bolt Threads…
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There’s a potentially vicious legal battle brewing between two retail giants—all over a tiny, unassuming golf ball. And the result could have some implications for the promo industry…
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It’s not new information that bees are vitally important to the ecosystem. To boost the population (which given experts cause for concern), Cheerios is sending out free wildflower seed packets to people in the U.S. as part of its “Bring Back the Bees” campaign. This all sounds great, right? Bees will have plenty of flowers to…
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released the Intellectual Property Rights Seizure Statistics report for the 2016 fiscal year, detailing the extent of seizures of counterfeit and unauthorized merchandise. The report indicated that, after more than 31,000 seizures, the agencies nabbed about $1.38 billion—an increase from 2015’s 28,000…
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