Product of the Day: Key Ring Utility Knife from Jo-Bee

If there’s one thing I learned from Boy Scouts, it’s to always have a knife. I never actually joined the Boy Scouts, but I saw that one episode of “Dennis the Menace” and it really stuck with me. Jo-Bee’s Key Ring Utility Knife has all the right tools to solve problems or harass Mr. Wilson.

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What’s in Store

They spend millions of dollars so their logos pop, their brands are household names and their companies garner worldwide loyalty. Within the retail world, consumer brands have been etched upon our collective unconsciousness.

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Femme Fashionable

The late Elizabeth Taylor once said, “I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife.” Probably no one ever accused the eight-times-married actress of being a normal housewife, but her statement relates to more than her inability to settle down

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Supplier Excellence Awards Finalists

THE EDITORS AT Promo Marketing are thrilled to announce this year’s finalists for the 2011 Supplier Excellence Awards. With so many great suppliers on the semifinalist list, it was tough deciding who in the industry is top in any given category. So this year, we put the decision making in your hands, dear distributors. We…

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Work It Out

Working out is difficult. It requires more than just joining a gym or buying exercise equipment. Sure, you start off with the best of intentions, but months later you realize you’ve been paying for a membership you never use or staring at a machine you never fully assemble.

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Top 50 Distributors

2011 2010 Company Name Promotional Total Sales Employees Locations Principal(s) City/State
Rank Rank Product Sales (000) 
 (000)1 1 Proforma $269,100 $358,800 125 750 Greg Muzzillo, Founder Cleveland, OH
 and Vera Muzzillo, CEO2 3 BDA $256,000 $256,000 488 33 Jay Deutsch, CEO/Co-founder Woodinville, WA3 2 Integrated Merchandising Systems LLC (IMS) $223,500 $223,500 – 11 Rick Remick,…

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Voices From the Top

This year we thought we would open our interview questions to the rest of the top 50. Here is a brief selection of what they had to say.

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