Vantage Apparel, Avenel, N.J., a manufacturer and decorator of logo apparel, has hired Jennifer Strauss as sales representative for Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Puerto Rico, and has added Mike Newman as sales representative for New England, including parts of New York and Connecticut.

S&S Activewear, Bolingbrook, Ill., announced that it has strengthened its electronic data interchange (EDI) with a proprietary system called ApparelSync. EDI, the computer-to-computer exchange of documents, has become a standard for business-to-business collaboration across the apparel industry. With ApparelSync EDI, integrated customers are connected to real-time inventory, pricing, product information, and automated ordering and invoicing.