commonsku, a promotional products business and sales software company based in Toronto, recognized five “skummunity” award winners at skucon in Las Vegas. The skummunity awards honor the explorers, rule-breakers, dreamers, and innovators in the branded merchandise industry. At the live skucon event held on January 19, five recipients were recognized for their radical leadership and…
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Labeling has become a marketing and branding tool every bit as critical as any other tool in a marketer’s toolbox. Distributors who understand the label market put themselves in a position to expand their books of business and add more value to their customer relationships than ever before. They can do this by helping their…
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Gildan announced a special meeting in May to potentially reinstate former CEO Glenn Chamandy. Activist shareholders, however, aren’t fully satisfied, calling it a time-wasting technique by the company, which has already announced Chamandy’s successor.
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This article originally ran in Apparelist. To read more, click here. For those in the fashion industry, a category that definitely includes garment decorators, the Pantone color forecasts can be a very useful tool. If you are not aware, Pantone selects, each autumn, a color to represent the upcoming year, a color that it feels captures the…
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During the PPAI Expo in Las Vegas, SnugZ USA presented a check to Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) for a total of $107,329.82 to show its continued support to the veteran organization from their Basecamp promotional sales.
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Bag Makers Inc., Union, IL, received three 2024 Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) Pyramid Awards, including a Supplier Award of Merit, a Gold Pyramid Award for Supplier Decorating/Special Applications and Processes, and a Silver Pyramid Award for Supplier Decorating/Combination of Processes. PPAI’s annual Pyramid Awards honor creative excellence in the promotional products industry and recognize…
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Methods for creating a great company culture, retaining employees, and improving recruiting are possible to implement for even the smallest companies.
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It’s interesting how businesses start out — and even diversify — sometimes. Often, it’s just out of necessity. Russ Truluck, CEO of Inform Systems Data Documents Inc., Arden, North Carolina, remembers when he first added promotional products to his product line. A print customer didn’t have the items they needed for a trade show. After…
Read MoreApparel with “backwards” stitching, shattered snowglobes, sleeves too long, and more: Taylor Swift fans are angry at Universal Music Group over merchandise that never arrived, arrived late, or arrived damaged.
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