Industry leaders and staff from Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), Irving, Texas, fanned out across Capitol Hill in late March in an organized effort to discuss pending legislation relating to the promotional products industry.
Read MoreProforma Opens 10 New Offices in March
Cleveland-based Proforma, a leading North American provider of graphic communications solutions, announced it added 10 new owners to its network.The following new owners joined Proforma’s network: Keith Abrams, Proforma Impact Print & Promo, Gilbert, S.C. Tana & Bob Curtis and Renee & Shannon Woolridge, Proforma All Star Marketing Solutions, Tucson, Ariz. Suzanne Holler, Proforma Desert…
Read MoreA Hole-istic Approach
Event planning is a field well-suited for promotional product use, but for golf tournaments and events, this is especially so. Not only do you have all the sales opportunities of a regular event, like T-shirts for volunteers and staff, you also have a multitude of golf products available to bear your client’s logo. From clubs and balls to sunscreen and umbrellas, what follows below are a few tips and tricks to picking the right items* for each part of a golf promotion.
Read MoreStressing the Details
Perhaps suprisingly, stress reliever promotions can be stressful, especially if you’re trying to design a custom piece. Thankfully, Promo Marketing is here to rescue you from your worries once again. We’ve spoken with some experts in the field and collected their step-by-step advice on planning a custom stress reliever promotion, from conceptualization to imprinting and color.
Read MoreEPA Proposes Adding More Chemicals to Toxics Release Inventory List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Washington, is proposing to add 16 chemicals to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) list of reportable chemicals, the first expansion of the program in more than a decade. Established as part of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA), TRI is a publicly available EPA database…
Read MoreIs Social Media About to Eat Itself Whole
You know all those freinds you have on Facebook? Say the hundreds and hundreds of them, some of which you really like and others you haven’t spoken with in 10 years. Now a new Web site will let any of them review YOU annonomously and for free. Unvarnished.com, currently in beta testing, lets users review friends, families, ex-boyfriends, etc … without having to leave a name (or even initials). Employees can comment on bosses, students on teachers, and even co-workers on co-workers. While not fully launched, the controversy about its functionality is in full gear.
Read MoreSponsors Hope Tiger’s Return a Marketing Roar
Sponsors who stuck by Tiger Woods are ramping up to profit from his return to the golf course.
Read MoreHospitality Mints Adds Veteran National Director
Hospitality Mints, based in Boone, N.C., announced it hired Robby Cordes, CAS, as director of ad specialty. Cordes has worked in the promotional marketing industry for 12 years and brings experience in customer relations, sales, sales training and management.
Read MoreHanes Plants the Seed for a Greener Earth Day and Arbor Day
Hanes announced it will offer consumers the opportunity to help plant trees in areas in need through a partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation. For every qualifying purchase of three Hanes products with mail-in redemption and proof of purchase from April 1 through May 15, Hanes will send the purchaser a free Hanes Earth Day T-shirt and will donate a dollar to the Arbor Day Foundation.
Read MoreUrge Butler University to Help End Sweatshop Labor
Is Cinderella really more of a evil step-sister? It seems that this years version of media darling in the annual NCAA Basketball tournament, fifth-ranked Butler University may not be as pure as some of the news makes out. Check out this exerpt from an online petition sponsored by Change.org.
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