Amazon Pulls Third-Party Apparel Items Featuring Slavery Joke

It’s easy to assume that as a company grows in power and visibility, it becomes infallible to mistakes. It’s also easy to assume that a company with the clout and resources that Amazon has would have necessary quality control personnel to weed out potentially disastrous hits to its reputation. That’s what makes it so astounding…

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The World’s Largest T-shirt Is the Size of a Baseball Field

We here at Promo Marketing love hearing about big deals no matter whether they are the kind that yields financial windfall for companies, especially those within the promotional products industry, or are the sort that makes life on this third rock from the sun even more amazing thanks to their ingenuity. While the former variety…

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Old Spice Turns Mundane Maintenance Into Genius Promotion

Every facet of sports is commercialized anymore. The NBA is adding sponsorship to jerseys, a practice that has already caught on in the WNBA, and has really taken off in some European sports leagues. In some, you can’t even find the team’s logo amidst a sea of sponsors. The stadiums are all named after a…

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Aprons Etc. Promotes Pam Pennington to Vice President of Strategic Partnerships

Aprons Etc., Greenville, S.C., has promoted Pam Pennington to vice president of strategic partnerships. Pennington will be responsible for the development and growth of next-level customer relationships with top 100 distributor accounts throughout the U.S. and Canada. Using 30-plus years of professional account management experience, Pennington has spent her 13 years with Aprons Etc. leveraging…

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Forever 21, Honda Embark On Strange Collaboration

Last year, Forever 21 made headlines thanks to its clothing line with Taco Bell. It was creative, humorous and millennials loved it. For Forever 21’s latest exclusive collaboration, we have to admit we’re scratching our heads. According to HighSnobiety, Forever 21 is working with Honda for a vintage-inspired racing capsule collection. When we think millennials, we…

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