Promo Marketing’s offices will be closed today, October 29, in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy. The category 1 hurricane is expected to make landfall on Monday and will bring severe winds and heavy rainfall to much of the East Coast.
Read MoreHub Pen Hires Nicole Nary
Hub Pen Company has hired Nicole Nary as dedicated customer service representative. In this position she is responsible for maintaining day-to-day relations and managing orders for some of Hub Pen’s largest national accounts.
Read MoreiPROMOTEu Welcomes Two Canadian Affiliates
iPROMOTEu, the distributorship located in Wayland, Mass., announced the addition of Kelly Knight of Kaycee Promotions & Design, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Yamila Gonzalez of AUKA IMPEX, based in Mississauga, Ontario, to its network of over 550 independent distributor affiliates. Kaycee Promotions & Design is the first Canadian affiliate to join iPROMOTEu since it expanded into Canada in September 2012. AUKA IMPEX joined shortly after.
Read MorePrescription Without Diagnosis is Malpractice
How often do you sell something just to make the sale? How often do you approach a supplier at a show and ask “Whatʼs new?” Do you ever show your clients something because you get a special bonus or extra profit for selling it?
If so, you are lucky that no one ever gets sued for malpractice in our business. If so, you are a part of the problem that causes our industry to be perceived as the “t” and “t” words (or worse).
Read MoreProduct Recall: A Nightmare On Your Street
Jason Vorhees. Freddy Krueger. Michael Myers. Three classic horror movie villains that can send shivers down the spine with the mere mention of their names. But nothing strikes fear in the heart of product managers everywhere more than one thing: Recall.
Read MoreInnerWorkings Expands Multi-year Print Management Agreement With Fortune 100 Grocery Retailer
InnerWorkings Inc., a leading Chicago-based global marketing supply chain company, recently announced it has expanded its multi-year enterprise print management relationship with a major U.S. grocery retailer.
Under the new agreement, InnerWorkings will add direct mail and in-store point of sale to the existing outsourced print procurement partnership. These new categories are in addition to InnerWorkings’ current management of inserts, paper and other sourcing, which is expected to grow the relationship by approximately 40 percent.
Read MoreHanesBrands has “Substantially Completed” Discontinuation of its Outer Banks and Private-label Operations
As part of its recent third-quarter results press release, HandsBrands Inc. announced that it has “substantially completed” the discontinuation of its private-label and Outer Banks domestic operations. From the press release:
“On May 30, Hanes sold its European imagewear business, and the company has substantially completed the discontinuation of its private-label and Outer Banks domestic imagewear operations serving wholesalers that sell to the screen-print industry. In accordance with GAAP requirements, the company reported results for the second and third quarters on a continuing-operations basis and revised prior-period results to reflect continuing operations. The company’s branded printwear operations will continue to operate and serve the branded domestic screen-print market.”
Read MoreClegg Promotes New Regional Account Manager From Within
Kristina Cullen has been promoted to regional account manager for CleggPromo Inc. Kristina was most recently the inside account executive for Gardena, California-based company, handling Texas and Missouri. Kristina’s new responsibilities will be to handle the top five western states with outside sales calls and trade shows.
Read MoreBIC Group Releases 9-Month 2012 Sales Figures
BIC Group today reported its nine-month sales results for 2012. For the period ended in October, the company posted a 4 percent net sales increase on a comparative basis. Net income was up 15.8 percent at 213.0 million euros ($276.3 million).
For the third quarter of 2012, BIC’s net sales were up 4.4 percent at 488.8 million euros, compared to 468.2 million euros in 2011. While net sales were down slightly at constant currencies, the company indicated net sales were up 0.5 percent on a comparative basis.
Read MoreNewton Manufacturing and Salesforce.com Announce Strategic Partnership, Unveil Oasis
Newton, Iowa-based distributor Newton Manufacturing Company and enterprise cloud-computing company Salesforce.com have announced a strategic partnership to bring leading cloud-computing technologies to the promotional products industry. As part of their announcement, the companies introduced Oasis, an exclusive business technology suite designed to proactively meet the needs of promotional product distributors.
“As technology’s role in business has evolved from a management function into a strategic driver of business, Newton is committed to investing in technology to give our representatives a competitive advantage,” explains Jay Donlin, Newton’s executive vice president of sales and marketing. “Oasis is the next step in that evolution in the promotional products industry.”
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