What the 2022 NFL Draft Hats Tell Us About Current Headwear Decoration Trends

The 2022 NFL Draft hats are two-tone: black with a brim color reflective of the team’s colors. The front panel features a large embroidered graphic of the city in script font overlaid atop the team name in italic block letters. It’s a bold design choice. And that, along with a few other elements of the hats, gives us some hints as to what’s trending in headwear…

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Coca-Cola’s Immersive New London Retail Store Features Designer Apparel, Exclusive Drinkware and Customizable Cans

Coca-Cola is using a posh storefront in London’s Covent Garden neighborhood to sell items like apparel, accessories and drinkware and interact with shoppers beyond just the refrigerator. Shoppers can create their own personalized Coke cans using a design screen within the store, meaning even if they don’t buy the high end apparel, they can leave with something memorable…

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Mom Will Love This KFC Fried Chicken Bouquet Kit

This Mother’s Day, get Mom what she really wants. Sure, flowers are great, but KFC is inspiring others to go the extra mile by adding some fried chicken to a bouquet of roses. KFC’s Kentucky Fried Buckquet kit promotion includes a bouquet of 12 roses in a KFC-branded vase, along with eight skewers for fried chicken…

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Are Immersive Travel Experiences the Future of Branding?

It seems that the new way to put your brand in front of people is to literally house them, putting people in the middle of an advertisement. We’ve seen it with Taco Bell’s hotel, the Moe’s Miami hotel room and the Barbie RV, among others. Now, even more branded hotel experiences are popping up across the world…

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YouTube Will Sell Coachella Merchandise During Livestreams

Coachella sets have been live-streamed for years, even before the pandemic. If you’re not able to make it out to the desert in California for the music festival, you can still watch your favorite artists perform. Now, you can buy your favorite artists’ merchandise while you’re watching the stream on YouTube…

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Supply Chain Issues Have Delayed MLB Uniform Deliveries

Phillies fans noticed this weekend that their team wasn’t wearing its usual cream-colored home alternate uniforms, which it typically wears on Sundays. Some Phillies fans (like me) think they’re the best of the Phillies uniforms, so to miss out on them felt like a personal affront. https://twitter.com/JonnyHeller/status/1513199954294095880 It turns out that even an organization as…

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Proforma Hosts Its Largest Million Dollar Club Event in Company History

Proforma, Cleveland, hosted its largest Million Dollar Club trip at the luxurious Fairmont Scottsdale Princess Hotel. More than 250 Owners joined over 50 supplier partners to celebrate more than $1 billion in collective sale and recognize 90 new and next level members of the Million Dollar Club. These next-levels accomplishments include induction into the Multi-Million,…

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