Nike is no stranger to controversy, but with its latest T-shirt design, the apparel company might have messed with the wrong demographic: NFL fans.
Last week, the company released to its online store a T-shirt featuring the logo of the NFL’s Carolina Panthers, along with initials of the team’s home state, superimposed over a state silhouette. The only problem? The silhouette was of South Carolina. The Panthers play in North Carolina.
Read MoreStarline USA, based in Grand Island, N.Y., recently announced its newly formed partnerships with Paul Sprunk of PS & Associates and KC and Michael Fields of KC Fields & Associates.
Read MoreIrving, Texas-based Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) recently published its 2012 annual report for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012. The digital print-on-demand report highlights the association’s membership, expositions and promotional products industry advocacy and awareness in 2012, and is organized to address topics of interest to association members and industry stakeholders.
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Poor sleeping habits continue to plague more Americans each night. Don’t let relationships and creativity suffer. Instead, catch some Z’s with these items.
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Last week I wrote an article about a screenprinter that had to close down after printing an incredibly offensive shirt. It’s already become one of the most popular articles I’ve ever written for Promo Marketing. Click through here to give it a read!
Read MoreDelta Apparel Inc. on Wednesday announced plans to consolidate its domestic screen print operations as part of its continued focus on more efficient manufacturing and distribution strategies. The consolidation will result in the closing of the Wendell, N.C. decoration facility operated by the company’s Soffe business unit and the consolidation of those operations within Soffe’s Fayetteville, N.C. facility.
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Hub Pen Company, Braintree, Mass., has hired Nick Chipchase of Yorktown, Va., to represent the company in Virginia, DC, Maryland, and Delaware.
Read MoreLeed’s, a New Kensington, Pa. supplier and member of Polyconcept North America, announced the expansion of its environmentally-friendly products by adding a new collection of items, Disrupt.
Read MoreNeenah Paper announced it has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Gruppo Cordenons, the Italian maker of high quality fine papers, to market and distribute all Cordenons papers to the U.S. and Canada.
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The Knox County Romney Campaign of Tennessee has donated its leftover Romney-Ryan 2012 shirts to a needy school in Kenya. The Orbit Village Project, run by a cousin of Janelle Nevins, clothed more than 200 children in the Nairobi area.
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