Sure, it maybe a giant, rain and chill-filled corner, but summer is just around it all the same. Help get your clients excited for summer styles with the Anvil–2×1 Rib Tank Top from Virginia T’s. The 6 oz., 100 percent ring-spun cotton top is available in black, azalea, caribbean blue and white.
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Hub Pen Company, Braintree, Mass., has hired Scott Blankenship and Sharon Wohlleber of Houston-based HWA Sales to represent the company in Texas.
Read MoreHoward Schwartz, founder and CEO of HDS Marketing Inc., Pittsburgh, announced that HDS Marketing Inc. purchased the assets of Team Shop Premiums, a promotional products and services firm out of Phoenix, Ariz.
Read MoreiPROMOTEu, Wayland, Mass., announced today that 24 promotional products distributors have affiliated with iPROMOTEu in January 2011, setting a new record for the most new affiliates in a given month.
Read MoreOn Sept. 23, Molenaar LLC, Wilmar, Minn., announced the voluntary recall of 315,000 electroluminescent night lights that the company had manufactured and distributed from 2005 to 2009 throughout the United States. The recall is the result of the same four incidents of minor smoking and property damage reported to the Electrical Safety Authority of Ontario (ESA) that caused the Canadian recall in August, and not because of any new incidents of malfunction in the United States.
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Wired’s Gadget Lab talks about a hyprid pen/pencil writing instrument that writes with a soft metal alloy. It could be an interesting replacement for executive pen items.
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As part of its “Innovation” Case Study Challenge, Sweda Company, City of Industry, Calif., announced on Sept. 3 that the case study “Photo Frame Calc=Unlimited Marketing Options,” submitted by Julie R. Haar of Proforma Strategic Promotions, Columbus, Ohio, is this year’s Grand Prize Winner.
“I was thrilled to be among the six finalists. It’s an honor to be recognized by my peers and the industry for fulfilling my client’s needs with an innovative and strategic solution,” said Haar.
Read MoreGiven its dramatic growth in the promotional products market, RoadPro, Palmyra, Pa., has invested in added capabilities to insure that doing business is easy, productive and profitable for promotional products distributors. Specifically, RoadPro has increased investments in customer support personnel, sales agents, website capabilities and product assortment.
Read MoreBodek and Rhodes, a leading wholesaler of imprintable activewear based out of Philadelphia, announced their partnership with apparel manufacturer Gildan for a month-long promotion giving a free Samsung HDTV away every business day in September.
The sales incentive runs through the month of September and offers a free Samsung 26” LCD HDTV to each day’s highest online total order of Gildan products from BodekandRhodes.com.
Read MoreOn September 3, Magnus Pen and Trevelyan Limited have moved into a new state-of-the-art facility at 125 Nantucket Blvd. in Toronto. Trevelyan Limited, an 87 year old leather manufacturing company and Magnus Pen, the pen and Galleria Calendar people, have developed a strategic partnership where they will share their 72,000 square foot facility, personnel expertise and client promotion. Both companies are very pleased with the new space and working environment. The move took place over the last two weeks and the companies will celebrate at an open house on Monday, September 13. All distributors are welcome to view the new space and share in the light lunch and refreshments with the companies’ joined staff members.
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