Chris Morrissey, president of Fort Collins, Colorado-based Proforma Big Dog Branding has received one to two emails a day from prospective customers asking for information on products for about the last eight months. For any distributor, that doesn’t seem out of the ordinary. If anything, that’s great news. Business is booming, right? Not necessarily. Morrissey,…
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As we’ve seen on tour apparel, college T-shirts and rugs, misprints happen. That said, spelling a major athlete’s name wrong on the back of his own jersey is a pretty big no-no. Los Angeles Galaxy, and former Liverpool FC, star Steven Gerrard played a game on Sunday evening with “Gerrrad” on the back of his…
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Promotional Products Education Foundation (PPEF), Irving, Texas, a nonprofit founded to recognize and encourage scholastic excellence and academic performance among promotional products industry employees and their children, today announced 102 winners of $150,000 in academic scholarships. PPEF has awarded more than $1.56 million in financial assistance to 926 recipients since 1989. The organization awarded scholarships…
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It pays to go the extra mile. Regardless of the industry, customers and peers appreciate when someone makes that extra effort to create or provide something special. Steve Bocher, CAS, owner of Catch…
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Just less than a week after voters shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union, we’re starting to see economic ripples all across the world. Though U.K. will feel the majority of the impact from the referendum, folks in the U.S. still will see some changes as…
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Last week, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games unveiled the first official merchandise for the event. And, according to Inside the Games, on the first day of the release, 15 of the 26 product lines sold out online. The products, which include T-shirts, polo shirts, pin badges, key holders, neck straps and towels, feature the new Tokyo 2020 logo…
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Last month I had the privilege of joining a select group of promotional products professionals in Washington, D.C., for Promotional Product Association International’s (PPAI) Legislative Education and Action Day (L.E.A.D.). Influential industry members from across the country volunteered their time to head to our nation’s capitol, to raise awareness about our industry and the legislation…
Read MoreWater is the most abundant substance on earth and one of the most important pieces of our survival. Everybody already knows that—you drink your water, coffee or soda every day, and probably from your favorite piece of drinkware. There’s a lot more to drinkware than just something to hold your daily caffeine injection. At Debco,…
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BIC Graphic, Clearwater, Fla., recently won an American Inhouse Design Award from Graphic Design USA, New York City, in the point-of-purchase, displays and signs category for the Love My BIC campaign conducted at the PPAI Expo in Las Vegas in January. The BIC Graphic entry consisted of the large-format graphics, trade show display, sample display, and…
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There has been a lot of debate about whether or not the Washington Redskins should change their name, as many see it as offensive to Native Americans. One school in Washington, D.C., has shown where it stands on the debate by banning Redskins merchandise from its classrooms. According…
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