Lewisville, Texas-based Parago, a leading provider of innovative rewards-based incentive solutions, announced president and CEO Juli Spottiswood was named the Best Entrepreneur in the Service Businesses up to 2,500 employees category at the 6th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Parago was additionally a finalist in the Best Overall Company of the Year category.
Read MoreTRG Group Announces New Southeast Representation
St. Louis-based TRG Group, an international leader in the travel gear industry, announced that beginning December 1, 2009, Hudson Marketing Group and its president Jamie Hudson will represent TRG Group in the Southeast region.
Read MoreA Room of Its Own
“HOME IS WHERE the heart is,” may be perfectly cute and philosophical as far as generic cultural idioms go, but ?information-laden it is not. After all, the home is a big place, so where exactly in the house might the “heart” be? The kitchen?
Read MoreUPS Announces New Pricing, Fuel Surcharge Calculations Will Take Effect on Jan. 4
Atlanta-based UPS released new list rates for 2010, including an average increase of 4.9 percent for UPS Ground packages and an average net increase of 4.9 percent on all air express and U.S. origin international shipments.
Read MorePromo Marketing Launches Free Online Management Tool For Suppliers
Philadelphia-based Promo Marketing, the leading source of product and marketing information for distributor sales professionals, introduced Supplier Interface, a new, easy-to-use product management tool for promotional products suppliers, providing the ability to upload and update comprehensive product data from the user desktop.
Read MoreCommon Business Plan Mistakes (Inc.)
Writing a business plan is a crucial first step to getting your start-up off the ground. A good plan can help you raise money, recruit members of your management team, set your marketing strategy and, perhaps best of all, refine your thinking.
Read MoreU.S. Ripe for Coalition Loyalty Programs Finds DMA Panel (Incentivemag.com)
Popular in Canada, Brazil, Germany, Australia and elsewhere around the world—but not yet in the United States—coalition loyalty programs are being positioned as the “next big thing” here by participants in a panel
Read MoreTreasury Rethinks TARP: Strong Banks, Weak Credit (The Huffington Post)
WASHINGTON — Big banks are roaring back. At crisis’ edge last year, they are repaying billions of dollars dumped into their vaults to rescue them. Dividend checks are accumulating at the Treasury.
Read MoreHospital Promotional Products Inc. Joins The Vernon Company
Elizabeth and Kent Mills, of Hospital Promotional Products Inc., based in Cincinnati, have joined Newton, Iowa-based The Vernon Company as account executives in its eastern region.
Read MoreAlternate Site Provided as Leed’s Responds to Denial of Service Attack
New Kensington, Pennsylvania-based Leed’s, a member of Polyconcept North America, the second largest supplier of hard goods within the promotional products industry, announced it has redirected its primary Web site address to www.leedsworld-backup.com.
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