Brendan Menapace, Author at Print & Promo Marketing

Australia Day Merchandiser Forgets Tasmania

Today is Australia day, which means our friends down under are celebrating the anniversary of the first arrival of British ships to the continent. Just like we do for the Fourth of July in the U.S., Australians are…

American Apparel, Los Angeles, will continue with its reorganization plan after U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brendan Shannon ruled in favor of the company in court today. This means that American Apparel will become a private company, and place nearly 100 percent of its control to its largest bondholders. Shareholders, including founder and former CEO Dov Charney,…

Adidas announced that it is pulling its sponsorship of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the world’s governing body for athletics (track and field, cross country running, racewalking, mountain running, and ultra running), after a doping scandal involving international athletes. According to RT, Adidas signed an 11-year, $33 million agreement with IAAF in 2008, but after…

As the season’s first significant snow fall makes its way up the Northeast U.S., we’re getting ready for a lot of snow here in Philadelphia. For folks in the Mid-Atlantic, we’ve built a list of a few promotional products to keep on hand during the snowy weekend. (To view this all as one page, click…

During the company’s second day in bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Del., Los Angeles-based American Apparel’s founder and former CEO Dov Charney testified for more than two hours, claiming that the company wrongly declined his investor-backed takeover offer. According to Reuters,…

Amazon introduced the Dash Replenishment devices in March by launching the product-branded plastic buttons. Now, the devices, which allow users to press a button to reorder items without having to log onto the site, are live. The buttons are branded based on the…

After rejecting its founder and former CEO Dov Charney’s $300 million takeover bid, American Apparel went to bankruptcy court in Delaware on Wednesday, and the two parties debated the future of the Los Angeles-based apparel company. American Apparel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 2015, and introduced a reorganization plan that would pass control to…

Krena and Almon Poole, a couple from Alabama, support Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in a big way. The two claim to have invested $50,000 to create Trump-themed T-shirts, and follow Trump on his campaign trail to sell merchandise outside of speaking events and…

The Sundance Film Festival kicks off today, and film industry folks are jetting off to Park City, Utah. Like most high-end award shows and festivals, attendees will receive a pretty nice assortment of gifts when they get there. According to The Wrap, here are some of the notable…