Voting in the 2019 Supplier Excellence Awards is now open, giving distributors the chance to decide the best suppliers in the promotional products industry. Every major product category is represented on the survey—so whatever items you specialize in, your vote matters. Cast your vote today! Voting in the Supplier Excellence Awards ends on Friday, June…
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Raining Rose, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is pleased to announce the recent hiring of Quinn Bui, who will join the promotional sales team as the Southwest sales executive, calling on customers in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California; and John R. B. Cudahy, CAS, who will join the promotional sales team as the Northeast sales executive, calling…
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Geiger, Lewiston, Maine, has acquired Winter People Image Marketing, with locations in Freeport and Falmouth, Maine. The company will operate as a division of Geiger. Clay Bouton, senior vice president of sales, will remain as a key contact with the company. A…
Read MoreMembers of Canada’s Parliament ordered a breakdown of the Canadian government’s promo spending between January 2017 and February 2019, and found that it had purchased items like rubber ducks, pens and lanyards totaling about $6.7 million (about $4.5 million USD) over that span. According to iPolitics (which has detailed Canada’s federal promo spending in the…
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There were so many amazing promotions this week that I almost had to upgrade this to a Fave 10. But, I’m a stickler for consistent branding, so I managed to narrow it down to five. You’ll notice that this week’s Fave 5 skews pretty heavily toward beer and tacos, but I guess that’s just the stage of life I’m in right now…
Read MoreBuckle up, folks, because we’ve got a truck T-shirt controversy!!! We’ve seen our share of T-shirt artwork mistakes in the past, like the time Walmart printed the wrong state on its University of Maryland tees, or when Nike spelled Arkansas wrong on a football jersey. Now, Kohl’s has committed its own artwork error that is, frankly, pretty amusing…
Read MoreSince promotional apparel is increasingly shadowing retail, we can gain some insights from retail buyers. According to Apparel News, a recent survey from Cotton Inc. and Cotton Council International polled 7,300 consumers from various countries to determine what drives their clothing purchases…
Read MoreWhile the internet teemed with pieces that aimed to clarify the distinction between Memorial Day and Veterans Day, Jacob Weindling, a staff writer with Paste, and Nick Francona, a former Marine and son of Major League Baseball manager Terry Francona, sought to address the distinction between saying one is going to do something for military…
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HUB Promotional Group, Braintree, Mass., announced the addition of Gerard Schifano as Northeast territory manager. The promotional products industry veteran joined HUB Promotional Group’s HUB Pen Company as a multi-line factory representative in 2015, representing the company in New Jersey, Southern New York and New York City. Gerard had…
Read MoreWe all like to pride ourselves on being multi-taskers, but being a spelling extraordinaire cannot be among everyone’s skillset. In conjunction with the 92nd staging of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Google Trends has again revealed which words cause the most misery for the masses, with “beautiful” yet again emerging as the one that drives…
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