For more than 10 years, Promo Marketing has assessed the most successful promotional products suppliers. The 2017 Top 50 Suppliers list is a comprehensive ranking of the biggest promo companies, ranked by 2016 sales volume. The companies that make up this year’s Top 50 Suppliers list totaled more than $4.9 billion in revenue…
Read MoreRingling Bros.’ Overseer Creates Media Circus With Merchandise-Inclusive Lawsuit Against Kid Rock
When you pen a song called “American Bad Ass” and frequently find yourself in legal limbo, you could probably not give a rat’s rear end when someone takes issue with how…
Read MoreSnugZ USA Tragically Loses One of Its Own
SnugZ USA, West Jordan, Utah, has released the following statement regarding the passing of Richard D. Massey: Our beloved Richard D. Massey Esq., director of legal and regulatory affairs, passed away on Dec. 13, 2017. He has been a steady mainstay with SnugZ for the past seven-plus years, and played a vital role in directing…
Read MoreCalifornia Says Nestle Is Extracting More Than Allowed for Its Bottled Water Operation
California’s State Water Board announced that Nestle may not have the proper legal permits to collect water it bottles from the state’s San Bernardino National Forest. Nestle collects and bottles millions of gallons of the water for its Arrowhead brand. According to NPR, The State Water Board said that Nestle may only have the right…
Read MoreAmerican Apparel Rebrand Looks to Empower Women
The campaign, spearheaded by the brand’s first ever all-female team of executives, comes as part of a rebranding effort for American Apparel. New ads renew the brand’s trendsetting image while leaving its troubled past behind…
Read MoreSeattle Seahawks Enlist Uber, Fanatics for Promo Delivery
Christmas shopping can be awfully daunting. With so many gifts to get, and such a brief window of time to do so, the holiday season greets us each year with its own share of stress and anxiety. That is, of course, unless you’re actually a sensible person who doesn’t wait until the last possible moment…
Read MoreHow to Always Strive for Your Best Promotion
Sometimes it’s difficult to select a promotion that’s one of your best. For some distributors, it’s kind of like (to use an old cliché)…
Read MoreDrop the Resolution, Set Goals Instead
Only 9 percent of people achieve their new year resolutions, according to Statistic Brain. Resolutions and goals are very similar in many ways. Even their definitions are similar. Goals are “the object of a person’s ambition or effort; an aim or desired result,” where a resolution is “a firm decision to do or not to…
Read MoreKobe’s Jersey Retirement Scored a Numerically Appropriate Merch Total
In my time as a sports fanatic, I have nurtured affinities for a few teams, and have received encouragement to dislike other franchises based on my fascination. That has meant despising the New York Mets in cherishing the Philadelphia Phillies, loathing the Pittsburgh Penguins and New York Rangers in living and dying by the Flyers,…
Read MoreNational Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum Finds Permanent Location
Bobbleheads have become so ubiquitous that we at Promo Marketing, along with conducting a roundup of our favorite stories from this year, could have devoted a recap to our accounts of the eye-catching collectibles. Because of that, one could say we admire the efforts of Brad Novak and Phil Sklar, whose four years of accumulating…
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