Another year, another Coachella weekend. As you could see in your social media feeds, thousands of music-obsessed patrons made their way down to the desert to soak up some rays and listen to their favorite musicians at the first weekend of Coachella. As usual, it was the must-attend event of the year—even Ariana Grande released…
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Bill Mahre, president of ADG Promotional Products, joined the show to recap PPAI Expo 2019 and discuss his vision for the promo industry as his PPAI board term begins. (The key? Making promo quicker, easier and better for the end-buyer.) He also told us about his brush with Hollywood stardom as part of the Minnesota Twins organization in the ’90s…
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Whew, what a week. Between circling the show floor, sitting in on education sessions and sneaking off to the In-N-Out Burger, we kept ourselves busy at PPAI Expo 2019. In case you missed any of our event coverage, here’s a roundup of all the stories we ran last week recapping the show…
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Somehow, the second day of exhibits has already come to close at PPAI Expo 2019. (Time flies when you’re raiding the media lounge snack bar, you know?) Just like yesterday in our day one roundup, we put together a shortlist of the most interesting products, people and booth displays we saw on day two…
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This year alone, British Airways, Delta Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Air New Zealand, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and more announced they would revamp their employee uniforms to achieve a more updated look for each airline. All this attention to employee uniforms and aprons is great news for promotional apparel distributors looking to cash in on new business opportunities…
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Each year, Promo Marketing sets out to compile and rank the largest promotional products suppliers. The 2018 Top 50 Suppliers list is the result—a comprehensive ranking of the industry’s power players by 2017 sales volume, with additional in-depth analysis on mergers and acquisitions, geographic trends, sales statistics and more. It was a big year in…
Read MoreWe’ve said it before, and we’ll probably be saying it forever at this point, but The Walt Disney Co. knows the ins-and-outs of marketing just as well as they know the key to everyone’s childhood heart. This includes meeting the ever-changing demands of its ever-growing audience. We couldn’t help but notice all of the new…
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In 2017, our Top 50 promotional products distributors totaled $5.033 billion in sales. How did these powerhouse distributors get there? We asked six of the top earners and fastest growers from this year’s Top 50 list for the secrets to their success…
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It was a good year for promotional products distributors. According to our data, the Top 50 totaled $5.033 billion in promotional products sales in 2017, up more than $500 million from our previous list’s $4.476 billion tally. Of the 44 distributors on this year’s list that also appeared on last year’s edition, 37 saw increased promotional products revenue from 2016 to 2017…
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In opposition to the popular belief that millenials don’t respond to email marketing, 10% MORE millenials, compared to older generations, sayt that promotional emails are influential “all of most of the time.” Download this infographic on marketing for millenials.
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