Proforma, Cleveland, Ohio, has announced that Fred and Suzette Albrecht of Milford, Ohio-based Proforma Albrecht & Co. have exceeded more than $30 million in annual sales in 2015. “We’re honored to have Proforma Albrecht & Co. as a part of the Proforma family,”…
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Leed’s, New Kensington, Pa., announced that it, along with A.T. Cross Company, is now the promotional products supplier for Sheaffer luxury writing instruments. Sheaffer joins the Leed’s portfolio of writing instrument brands, which range from high-end offerings to more value-priced options. “We are extremely excited to offer Sheaffer pens to our customers,” said Nicole Kyser,…
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Hub Pen Company, Braintree, Mass., announced the addition of John Gibbons to its team of sales executives. Gibbons, a multi-disciplined sales professional with experience in the creation, development and management of account partnerships, will represent Hub Pen Company with its distributors in New England.…
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Winter has made its long-awaited arrival, and temperatures reached frigid numbers this week here in Philadelphia. While that might mean trading in flowing blouses for thicker sweaters, that doesn’t mean your fashion sense has to hibernate all winter.
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The whirlwind of the 2016 PPAI Expo has come to an end. The feeling in our feet finally has returned, we’ve adjusted back to Eastern Standard Time and now we’re digging through the mountain of business cards, catalogs and samples we received from both new and old friends to take stock of everything we saw last week. Here we’ve highlighted 10 of our favorite apparel finds from the show…
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My mother sang in a Philadelphia glam/punk band called Separate Checks in the late ’70s and early ’80s. At night, she would go on stage dressed as Ziggy Stardust and belt out covers of “Lady Stardust” and “Suffragette City” in bars across the city. I was too young to attend, but on weekends I listened to…
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Major electronics brands, such as Apple, Samsung and Sony, reportedly are failing to do checks to ensure that they aren’t sourcing cobalt mined by child workers. A report from Amnesty International, titled “‘This is what we die for’: Human rights abuses in the…
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A lot of movies have created clever promotional campaigns. Some install cryptic billboards in cities, some place messages around town on walls and others hand out memorable gifts. “The Revenant”—a new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a fur trapper named Hugh…
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Alliance Rubber Company, Hot Springs, Ark., recently received International Standards Organization (ISO) 9001:2008 certification, which addresses various aspects of quality management. The standards provide guidance and tools to ensure products and services consistently meet customer’s requirements, and that quality consistently is improved. The ISO 9001:2008 certification, with a design and development exclusion, is an internationally…
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Chocolate Inn/Taylor & Grant, Freeport, N.Y., announced the promotion of Jaclyn Claude to the position of assistant customer service manager, and Laurie Serwitz to the position of service resolution and billing manager. Claude will be responsible for training all new customer service team members, as well as working directly with production to ensure complete customer…
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