Cedar Crest Manufacturing Begins Operations

Cedar Crest Manufacturing, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a new supplier of writing instruments to the promotional products industry. Founded by a team of former Norwood/Souvenir staff, the company offers a distribution network with more than 80 years of experience.

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Recession Disorders?

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.
Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist (1856 -1939)

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Hooray Hooray for Deadline Day

I know I didn’t tease this in last week’s post, but I thought it might be fun to give you all a glimpse of what it’s like on deadline day here at Promo Marketing, mostly because it’s deadline day today, and that’s pretty much all that’s on my mind. Not that deadlines really bother me, it’s more that if you can see the finish line, you mind really isn’t on kittens or the great sandwich you had for lunch. We’re going to do this piece time-stamp style, and promise each other that we won’t think about kittens until it’s over.

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20 Questions

I’ve recently started work on Promo Marketing’s Top 50 Distributors List, which is amazing and wonderful if for nothing else than the fact that I’m getting paid to make a list. The Top 50, much like the masthead of our magazine, is arranged by income level, ability to wreck house at shuffle board, and whether I can get ahold of your information or not.

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