Come Friday, before the tryptophan has even fully left our systems, most of America will be listening to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” on repeat, getting properly festive for the holiday season. There’s one person, though, who probably won’t be participating in this most beloved of annual traditions: Mariah Carey herself. That’s because…
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Not Going to Thanksgiving? Jose Cuervo Wants to Help (by Sending a Life-Size Printed Cutout of You to Dinner Instead)
The whole “not doing Thanksgiving” thing is a bummer, sure. But Jose Cuervo has a solution: If you can’t physically go to Thanksgiving dinner at Meemaw’s house this year, why not do the next best thing and send a life-size printed cardboard cutout of yourself instead?…
Read MoreCentral America Facing ‘Catastrophic’ Flooding Threat From Tropical Storm Eta: How It Impacts Region’s Promo Apparel Facilities, Supply Chain
Honduras is home to manufacturing facilities for several large apparel companies operating in the promo industry, including Delta Apparel, Hanesbrands, Gildan and American Apparel (now owned by Gildan). As such, tropical storm Eta, despite its downgraded status, has the potential to disrupt the promo supply chain…
Read MoreOver It? Revisiting the Promo Industry’s Overruns Debate
Overruns have long been a standard part of doing business in the promo industry, but not everyone is on board. We talked to distributors and suppliers to learn the reasons behind overruns, identify strategies for dealing with them and attempt to settle a surprisingly philosophical question they pose. Plus, we ask if the economic fallout from the pandemic rekindled the debate…
Read MoreBAMKO Sales Up 67%, 4imprint Recovering and Other Promo Industry Earnings Reports News
Last week, a number of prominent promo industry companies released earnings reports. While some of those companies are faring better than others as they navigate the pandemic, the news overall was encouraging. Here’s how a few of these promo businesses performed…
Read MoreGet Back to Business (and Win Some Cash) at Our Virtual Power Meeting: Fall Edition
Our first Back to Business Virtual Power Meeting event, held at the end of summer, was designed specifically to help distributors and suppliers connect and generate business. Based on the feedback from distributors and suppliers who attended the event, it was a no-brainer to do another one…
Read MoreDecorating Apparel or Looking to Start? Learn From the Experts at the (Free!) PRINTING United Digital Experience
The PRINTING United Digital Experience has something for everyone, but for anyone already decorating apparel (or looking to start), there’s an entire day dedicated to screen printing and other apparel decoration topics. On Tuesday, Oct. 27, the event will roll out a full day of programming that includes education sessions, a panel discussion and product demos on…
Read More‘Plan Accordingly’: A Massive Holiday Shipping Crunch Is Coming—Here’s How It Impacts Promo Companies
There are usually shipping delays around the end of the year as consumers, retailers and corporate buyers ramp up holiday purchases. This year, though, might be unlike anything we’ve ever seen—both in overall volume and in timing. FedEx and UPS have told some shippers that they’re already at or near shipping capacity for the remainder of the year…
Read MoreAnheuser-Busch Is Sending 62,500 Gallons of Its Branded Hand Sanitizer to Polling Locations Across the U.S.
Ahead of the November presidential election, Anheuser-Busch is reportedly sending over 8 million ounces of its sanitizer to polling locations across the U.S. That comes out to around 62,500 gallons. For perspective, if you put all that sanitizer into gallon jugs and placed them in a line, it’d stretch for almost five and a half miles…
Read MoreHow One Promo Company Turned Massive PPE Sales Success Into a Creative Give-Back Effort
In the first half of 2020 alone, iPromo booked 1,000 percent more sales and shipped 800 percent more orders than it did in all of 2019. But after months of soaring PPE sales catapulted iPromo to these record numbers, discarded PPE was now littering the streets and piling up in waterways, raising alarm from a growing number of environmentalists. The company has a fun idea to help clean it up…
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