The Chicago Cubs accidentally printed a bobblehead honoring Hall of Famer Billy Williams with the wrong uniform number. Williams wore 26, but the Cubs made bobbleheads to hand out to fans with the number 1 — quite a difference.
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alphabroder Hires Eric Levin as VP of Hard Goods, Joe Blackburn as VP of Decoration Operations
alphabroder, Trevose, PA, announced that Eric Levin has been appointed executive vice president of hard goods strategy and growth, effective immediately. In this role, Levin will focus his leadership on the organic and acquisitive growth strategies for alphabroder’s hard goods business. This newly created role is an investment in alphabroder’s hard good business, aligning with…
Read MoreRestaurant Branding Lessons from Ralph Lauren’s Social Media-Ready Cafe
Ralph Lauren is opening a brick-and-mortar location of it’s Ralph’s Coffee pop-up in Singapore. With top-to-bottom branding on packaging, drinkware, and signage, it’s a social media-ready dining experience that others can learn from.
Read MoreHPG Hires Alex Symms as Director of Sales for Evans Manufacturing
HPG, Braintree, Mass., announced the onboarding of industry veteran Alex Symms as director of sales of their Garden Grove, CA, subsidiary Evans Manufacturing. Symms joins HPG and Evans with a combined 20-year management background with promotional products suppliers, such as Chameleon and most recently PowerStick.com. “I’ve had the good…
Read MoreiClick Expands Product Line With Sustainability Focus
What’s better than a branded promotional product? One that you can say you helped make, through recycling efforts. iClick is taking the necessary steps to promote sustainable living, and today with the official announcement of iClick’s Eco-friendly Series, that potential becomes a reality. The Eco-friendly Series features mobile tech products made with verified-recycled content. To…
Read MoreKeeping Up on Business Casual Apparel Trends
While scratchy, stiff styles are out, business casual apparel is still in existence — it just feels different. The better question is, do you offer these new styles to your customers looking for comfortable, stylish, professional branded gear?
Read MoreSmoothie King Used ChatGPT to Print a Promotional Romance Novel
While many people are still trying to figure out exactly how cryptocurrencies and NFT’s work, the debate about the usefulness and ethics of AI technology is ongoing. From a promo perspective, there are, theoretically, plenty of uses for AI in terms of art and content creation, but there aren’t many case studies in that realm…
Read MoreNavitor Inc. Acquires Assets of Printco Incorporated, Expanding Wilmer’s Dealership Base
Wilmer, a Navitor Inc. company, has reached an agreement to acquire certain assets of Printco Incorporated. Headquartered in Omro, WI, Printco is a wholesale trade printer known for medical prescription forms, business forms, envelopes, mailers, and other printed materials. “We’re excited to welcome Printco’s many loyal distributors to the Wilmer family,” says Joel Wynne, sales…
Read MoreSonic’s Summer Menu Has a Fun Merchandise Tie-In
Sonic, allegedly America’s favorite drive-in restaurant, is prepping fans for summer with a full line of vacation-ready promos. The whole thing is ostensibly a tie-in with a new menu item — the Strawberry Shortcake Snowball Slush Float — but really, it seems more like any other merchandise drop that restaurants have been using as seasonal…
Read MoreEnnis Inc. Acquires Stylecraft Printing
Ennis Inc., Midlothian, Texas, announced its acquisition of the real estate and operating assets of Stylecraft Printing Company in Canton, Michigan. Stylecraft is a trade-only printer since 1967, specializing in business forms, integrated products, and commercial printing. “We are thrilled to bring Stylecraft and its experienced employees into the Ennis family of companies,” said Keith…
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