Michael Young, CDC, estimator for The Flesh Company, passed away from a heart attack on August 25 in Parsons, Kan. Young had been an employee of the company for nearly 36 years, starting in the plate department before moving into sales. He had earned his CFC and CDC accreditations serving as one of the company’s key document developers.
Read MoreAmericana Sportswear announced its third annual Open House, scheduled for Friday, October 25, 2013 at its warehouse facility in Santa Fe Springs, Calif.
Read MoreThe Riverside Company, former owner of top-50 distributor Adventures in Advertising (AIA), reported today that it has sold the company to McNally Capital. Click through for the full press release from The Riverside Company.
Read MoreDelta Apparel Inc. recently reported that net sales for the fiscal year ended June 29, 2013 increased to $490.5 million from $489.9 million in fiscal 2012, marking the company’s tenth consecutive year of record sales. Net income for fiscal 2013 was $9.2 million, or $1.08 per diluted share, compared with a net loss in fiscal 2012 of $2.4 million, or $0.29 loss per diluted share. The net loss in fiscal 2012 was primarily due to the previously disclosed 2012 second quarter inventory markdown in the company’s basics segment, which was necessitated by unprecedented, record-high cotton costs.
Read MoreSweda Company LLC recently announced the hiring of Tina Jameson-Brown as the company’s new independent regional sales representative for North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
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Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), the world’s largest and oldest international not-for-profit promotional products association, recently announced that Kevin Flynn, MAS, director of sales for TBK Promotions Inc., based in Chicago, and Larry D. Krause, MAS, president of LDK Marketing Services Inc., headquartered in Dallas, as the 2013 PPAI RAC Volunteer of the Year award recipients. Flynn and Krause will be formally honored at the 2013 RAC Leadership Development Workshop opening night reception on September 25, 2013 in Grapevine, Texas.
Read MoreStarline USA announced the launch of its 2013 Holiday Best catalog. The seasonal catalog introduces 30 new products including drinkware, travel bags and electronics.
Read MorePoints of Light announced the appointment of Big River Marketing in Missouri to represent the company in the Midwestern states, including North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan.
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Visstun and Digispec recently hired Isaac Roberts as its newest team member. Working as a sales counselor, Roberts will strengthen the relationships with his distributor base as well as offer an excellent quality of customer service to clients and help them with selecting the perfect product to fit their needs.
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One of our biggest challenges is the question of how we can help those promotional product reps actually closing the sales and working with limited resources make it part of their decision to deliver safe and socially compliant product? It’s all in the balance of risk and reward.
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