2010 Top 50 Supplier List

2010 Rank 2009 Rank Company 2009 Revenue 2008 Revenue Employees Locations Principal City, State 1 1 Broder Bros. $688,000,000 $903,000,000 – 19 Tom Myers, CEO Trevose, PA 2 2 Ennis $584,029,000 $610,610,000 5,200 40 Keith Walters, chairman/CEO Midlothian, TX 3 4/7 Norwood & BIC $410,000,000 n/a 2,300 7 Quenten Wentworth, Clearwater, FL Graphic North America…

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SnugZ USA Partners with StoneMass for Facebook Feature

Salt Lake City-based SnugZ USA, a veteran company in the promotional products industry, announced a new partnership with StoneMass, an online marketing company to offer distributors a SnugZ USA tab on their Facebook fan page.  Distributors can link directly to SnugZ USA’s online catalog, specials and promotions.

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SnugZ USA Dog Found Safe on Video

After multiple inquiries from distributors, Charley Johnson, executive vice president of Salt Lake City-based SnugZ USA, posted video of his dog, Zoe, confirming the dog’s whereabouts.

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Sunny Days Are Here Again?

ACCORDING TO THE U.S. Travel Association, a nonprofit travel industry group based in Washington, the travel industry shed approximately 400,000 jobs in the past two years. This number is significant for a market that accounts for 7.7 million U.S. jobs and indirectly affects 10 million others.

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QCA Certification Alliance Membership Expands

Brent Stone, QCA executive director–operations, noted since the Quality Certification Alliance (QCA), Chicago, opened for membership in July, he has had conversations with promotional product industry suppliers that recognize the competitive advantage that comes with successful completion of independent, third-party audits but are unsure how to begin the process.

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Secrets of the Simple

There might not be anything more basic than promotions involving badges, or buttons or lanyards for that matter. Place a logo on a piece of plastic, metal or cloth, give it to someone to wear, and you’re set. Basic, however, doesn’t necessarily mean less of a promotion.

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Do Gooders!

It’s easy to pigeonhole social responsibility into being about nothing more than driving a hybrid and saving old growth forests. The green movements power and celebrity, while valuable, can overshadow the other acts of human kindness that sustain societies as much as clean air, food and water.On both the supplier and distributor side of the…

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