Moderated by ASI’s Michele Bell, this PromoAlliance webinar featured a deep-dive discussion with four mid-size distributors from the U.S., U.K. and EU, covering everything from industry sales trends to hot products.
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This week, our research focuses on end-buyers in the Midwest, one of the four regions throughout the United States we’re spotlighting.
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Have you ever considered elevating your apparel game with polos and business casual wear, especially now that we’re seeing a greater shift into the business casual space as we all adjust from two years of working from home in our pajamas?
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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…
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While consolidation is a variable to watch, some experts believe “true consolidation” is impossible thanks to the diversity of the print and promo industries.
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The craft beer industry may be at an inflection point, and in that lies potential opportunity for promotional product distributors. Craft beer brewers have been one of America’s great small-business success stories of recent decades. Thousands of independent breweries have sprouted nationwide, creating jobs under local ownership and suds-style diversity in a marketplace once completely…
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When you hear the term “commercial printer” a few things probably immediately spring to mind if you’ve been in this industry for any amount of time. Those things probably include offset presses, applications like product brochures or direct mail, or long runs that can stretch into the hundreds of thousands of pieces. And while all…
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Shopify, one of the bigger names in the print-on-demand space that appeals to direct-to-consumer customers, released some insight into what specific products are the most popular on its POD platform, giving printers and promotional products distributors a look at what items work right now, and why.
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MeiLin Wan, vice president of textile for Applied DNA Sciences, discusses the continued presence of Xinjiang cotton in textile products, and the problem of “greenwashing” in the apparel and textile spaces.
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Pickleball has seen 224% growth since 2020, and it’s not the only fast-growing paddle sport with promo potential.
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