We’ve all left the house with our shirts on inside out at some point or another. But how many of us can say the same about our jeans? Soon, it may be a lot of us, because inside-out jeans are trending and, somehow, they’re going for $348…
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Elon Musk Says He’ll Sell Branded Tesla Short Shorts and We Can’t Tell If He’s Joking
You could spend countless words and hours trying to parse Elon Musk’s weird, controversial genius, so we’re not going to do that here. Instead, we’re going to focus on that other thing Elon Musk is: promotional products virtuoso. The latest entry in his oeuvre? Tesla short shorts. Maybe…
Read MoreAir Force, Army Approve Breastfeeding T-shirts
Back in April, the Army authorized female soldiers to wear an optional T-shirt for postpartum nursing, and now the Air Force made a similar move with its uniforms…
Read MoreDisney Parks Introduces Rainbow Mickey Ears for LGBTQ Pride
Whatever your opinion may be on corporate support/appropriation of minority groups and their celebrations, it can’t be denied that any effort to acknowledge and celebrate the LGBTQ community has the potential to make a positive impact. If Disney follows up on its Mickey Mouse ears with some films featuring LGBTQ characters, it will show that the rainbow ears mean something more than profit…
Read MoreSpector & Co. Enters Recapitalization Deal With Private Equity Firm
Spector & Co., the supplier based in West Chazy, N.Y., announced yesterday it has entered a deal with Blue Point Capital Partners, a private equity firm, to recapitalize. Financial terms of the deal were not made available…
Read More‘That Is So Metro, to Be Out of Stress Relievers’: DC Rail Network’s Merch Shop Is Kind of a Disaster
It was easy to write off the early bad press surrounding the D.C. Metro merchandise shop’s debut two weeks ago. But, we’re here to tell you that, no, two weeks after its grand opening, things are actually still going very poorly for Metro’s merch store…
Read MoreAn Itemized List of (Not Quite) Every Promotional Product Canada’s Government Purchased Last Year
Wondering what makes up the Canadian government’s promotional product spending? So were we! Luckily, courtesy of iPolitics, we have a list of dollar figures, items and quantities. And you better believe there’s maple syrup involved…
Read MoreVistaprint Won Big (Even If Not Everyone Buys Its Apology)
One day, Vistaprint found itself on the wrong end of a lawsuit and media firestorm after it sent pamphlets loaded with religious exhortations to a same-sex couple who had ordered wedding programs. Days later, Andrew Borg and Stephen Heasley, the couple in question, dropped the suit. It was all a mix-up, Vistaprint said, a misplaced shipping label by a third-party partner. All was forgiven. The internet, for the most part, moved on…
Read MoreRelax, Vistaprint Doesn’t Want to Be Your Competitor
Our friends over at Printing Impressions recently scored a lengthy interview with Mitchell Leiman, vice president of strategy and corporate development for Cimpress, parent company of Vistaprint. The whole thing is worth your time—there’s some great stuff on mass customization technology, for example—but where it gets real interesting is when Leiman talks about Vistaprint’s status as a hated rival…
Read MoreGolf Balls, Fast Food and Promotions Gone Wild: Our Favorite Posts of 2017
It’s been a wild ride, but 2017 is somehow already drawing to a close. Maybe it’s the whole “time flies when you’re having fun” thing—or maybe we’ve ventured too close to a black hole, distorting the very fabric of time and space—but boy, that went fast, eh? Anyway, as we move toward the year’s final…
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