Remember Warheads candies? They were, to put it simply, awesome. They had everything a kid wanted: bright colors, a very extreme name and the properties to create a playground challenge. Anyway, one of our favorite promotional products this week is Warheads-related. Check it out!…
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Last week, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, a republican, released a T-shirt on conservative fundraising platform WinRed. The red shirt reads “Find Me At The Fair” in large, blocky, right-aligned type. But, for RAYGUN, a T-shirt company based in Des Moines, it may well have read “Shots Fired.”…
Read MoreA year-plus of remote work has changed the way we think about dressing for work, shifting the workplace attire norms to be more casual. Scott Baxter, president and CEO of Kontoor Brands, parent company of Lee and Wrangler jeans, said that this “global casualization” is here to stay, and apparel companies need to pay attention…
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Getting a kitten is fun, but it’s a lot of work. Suddenly the whole house is a toy. While we try to keep our new cat away from the smartphone charger, check out our fave five promotional products of the week, including a Guy Fieri beach towel and a “Superbad” snow globe that Seth Rogen still owns…
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A distributor works directly with a client to determine every detail of the order and relays that to a decorator, who completes the technical aspect of the project. Decorators acknowledge the distributor’s role when creating their contract pricing. But what should distributors expect out of that relationship?…
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Just like you have different promotional suppliers for different products, you’ll need the same for different decoration methods or geographic locations to reduce transit from your preferred supplier warehouse or to the order’s final destination. So you’ll want to have solid relationships with more than one contract decorator…
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Distributors sometimes opt to bring decoration in-house, and there are some good reasons to go this route. However, leaning on a contract decorator has one major perk: The distributor can focus on selling while relying on contract decorators who know a thing or two about decorating apparel already…
Read MoreUK-based clothing designer Vollebak, which bills itself as making “clothes for the future,” created a black T-shirt dyed with algae, which naturally produces oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide. Many black dyes are made with a material called carbon black, which is produced by burning petroleum to create a powder used in pigments…
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There are always lots of great promotional products out there, but scrolling through social media long enough to find five that really stand out can be a grind, especially if you’re trying to cut down on your screen time. But, anything worth doing is worth doing right, so we have a good batch of five products that we think are pretty neat…
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Geiger received an order from a nearby camp that wanted to give employees branded vests to thank them for their hard work. The problem was that they wanted them in four days. Thanks to Geiger’s workforce, warehousing and supplier relationships, the job got done and the client was happy…
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