While we’re patiently counting down the days until top suppliers and distributors get together for our Back to Business Virtual Power Meeting: Fall Edition, we wanted to highlight five top products from suppliers who will be at the event. This is just a small sampling of the promotional solutions that will be on display…
Read MoreThere are usually shipping delays around the end of the year as consumers, retailers and corporate buyers ramp up holiday purchases. This year, though, might be unlike anything we’ve ever seen—both in overall volume and in timing. FedEx and UPS have told some shippers that they’re already at or near shipping capacity for the remainder of the year…
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This season, Starbucks launched a few different Halloween drinkware options—like tumblers for cold drinks and regular mugs for warmer beverages—and if you’ve been keeping up with our previous Starbucks merch coverage, you’ll know just how hard it is to find these items in-store. Here are a couple of highlights from the collection…
Read MoreAhead of the November presidential election, Anheuser-Busch is reportedly sending over 8 million ounces of its sanitizer to polling locations across the U.S. That comes out to around 62,500 gallons. For perspective, if you put all that sanitizer into gallon jugs and placed them in a line, it’d stretch for almost five and a half miles…
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99designs, based in Australia and backed by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Partners, boasts a network of freelancers in logo design, custom apparel, custom printed materials and a variety of other advertising and design services. The platform allows customers to hire a designer directly or open a brief and select from ideas submitted by designers…
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Amazon is set to significantly expand its digital and on-demand printing capabilities with a commitment to buy $400 million in digital printing products from Kornit. Separately, Amazon plans to open a new Merch by Amazon facility in Phoenix as the company’s e-commerce sales soar…
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There’s a longstanding debate over which fast food french fries are the best. But there’s one thing we think everyone can agree on, and that’s that the Travis Scott x McDonald’s merchandise collab is one of the best—and most interesting ones—we’ve seen. It’s also taken over the internet…
Read MoreA promo distributor was the victim of a scammer who ordered hundreds of T-shirts totaling more than $3,000, only to issue and receive a chargeback once the T-shirts were in their possession. In an email to Promo Marketing, Theda Furlonge, owner of TAF Promotions in Colorado Springs, described the scam…
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The Back to Business Virtual Meeting took our now-classic Power Meeting event format and moved it to a first-class online platform. Leading up to the event, we weren’t sure it could fully replicate the Power Meeting experience. Now that it’s over, we can safely say it shattered our expectations. Don’t believe us? Ask the distributors who were there…
Read MoreAs restrictions loosen and retail stores continue to reopen, the King of Prussia mall, located just outside Philadelphia, has a small surprise for shoppers: The official COVID-19 shop, home to an assortment of masks, mask spray and other PPE items…
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