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S&S Activewear Acquires alphabroder

Counselor Top 40 supplier S&S Activewear (asi/84358) has acquired fellow Top 40 firm alphabroder (asi/34063), bringing together two of the largest suppliers in the promo industry. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The transaction is expected to be complete later this year, and the companies will continue to go to market under their respective…

The deadly protests could leave a lasting effect on the country’s manufacturing economy, as curfews close factories and companies potentially move operations.

Throw it out. That’s what Pacific Market International (PMI), parent company of the popular Stanley tumbler drinkware brand, wants a federal judge to do with a class action lawsuit consumers brought against it over lead concerns. On Wednesday July 31, attorneys for PMI filed a motion in federal court in Washington state to dismiss the…

The move comes nearly five months after AAA was acquired by Sign-Zone, parent firm of Counselor Top 40 supplier Showdown Displays.

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. This week, our research focuses…

Cimpress’s flagship VistaPrint brand and National Pen, a former Top 40 firm, helped fuel the top-and bottom-line expansions.

The purpose of a brand name is to stick with the customer. When IPS wanted to rebrand to reflect its new identity beyond just traditional print products and as a service provider to the promotional products industry, it looked at the name of one of the products it currently offered and saw potential as a…

The Biden-Harris administration, citing the scope of the plastic pollution crisis, wants to phase single-use plastics from federal operations by 2035.

Inktavo, a provider of integrated software solutions for branded merch businesses, has acquired Clarity Software, a U.K.-based management information system software vendor that specializes in job pricing, inventory management and production management for the signs and graphics industry and other markets.

The African Growth Opportunity Act has become pivotal to the supply chains of some major promotional products suppliers, and is unlikely to be renewed before the end of 2024, but officials still believe the agreement will be extended before it expires next year.