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Your Fall Sales Plan

Watch this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip here. Good morning! Well, here we are. It’s the last week before the three most important selling months of the year. What’s your plan? I roll out this same message every year at this time because I believe it’s one of the most important sales tips I…

ASI Research has launched a new series profiling the people distributors work with most closely: end-buyers. Each week we’ll release a new data set that spotlights one of eight markets and looks at end-buyers through demographics such as gender, region and company size. Read the previous entries in our End-Buyer research series. Companies with more than 500…

Stran Promotional Solutions (asi/337725), a Counselor Top 40 distributor, has acquired the assets of Gander Group, a California-based provider of casino continuity and loyalty programs that generated more than $34 million in 2023 revenue. The move represents a deeper push by Quincy, MA-headquartered Stran into the gaming and entertainment…

Delta Apparel, a former Counselor Top 40 supplier, is reportedly in line to be liquidated. However, Delta, which filed for bankruptcy this summer, has bidders for its retail Salt Life brand.

Management at the country’s two largest rail networks recently told union members not to come to work due to failed contract negotiations. The dispute has been sent for binding arbitration by the federal government to quickly return trains to service.

Executives at the Counselor Top 40 suppliers said the move creates a one-stop web-based destination for high-quality apparel and hard good branded merchandise.

The agency had sought to ban the contract clauses, which have been a point of controversy in the promo products market and other industries, throughout the U.S.

Inkcups, a Danvers, Massachusetts-based supplier and manufacturer of printing and product decoration equipment, announced that it will showcase new direct-to-object digital and pad printing technology at the PRINTING United Expo in Las Vegas.

When you consider the graphics you encounter daily, there are many you never give a second — or third — thought to. Hotels are probably at the top of that list. Think about it: when was the last time you stopped and thought about what it took to create the spaces you move through as…

Industry distributors say requests for proposals have become more complicated and time-consuming. They’re adapting, but some believe a reimagined process would behoove their firms and their clients.