New Kensington, Pennsylvania-based Leed’s, a member of Polyconcept North America and the second largest supplier within the promotional products industry, announced it has hired a business development representative for Leed’s Canada and a regional sales manager for the Northwestern U.S. Leed’s also announced it has expanded roles within its sales and marketing areas to ensure stronger alignment across those functions.
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Lead Dread Begins: Major Government Requirements Now In Effect
The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) officially goes into effect on February 10, 2009. The bill, which mandates safe levels of lead in various children’s products, could have wide-reaching effects on the promotional products industry. Suppliers and distributors alike will be held responsible for providing and selling products that meet the safety standards laid out in the regulation.
Read MoreGolf Wear for The New Millennium
Among the original 13 rules of golf are antiquated statements (and spellings) such as, “If your ball comes among watter, or any wattery filth, you are at liberty to take out your ball …,” and “You are not to remove stones, bones or any break club, for the sake of playing your ball,” (What’s a break club?). While, of course, the original Scottish sounds foreign to the modern ear, the language alone illustrates how far the game has come in just a couple hundred years. Clubs and balls might be making warp-speed advances, but the innovations aren’t all technological. On the clothing side, fabrics
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