What a Swastika-Covered Ross Shirt Tells Us About the Apparel Supply Chain

Many consumers have made participation in the farm-to-table (or farm-to-fork, depending on one’s nomenclatural or alliterative tastes) movement a central component of their identities, obligating themselves to frequent restaurants that limit the number of sources they seek to help provide patrons with delicious dishes. That allegiance offers an interesting look at the depth of responsibility…

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Hub Pen Company Hires Business Systems Support Analyst

Hub Pen Company, Braintree, Mass., announced the hiring of seasoned IT specialist Terese Cook as business systems support analyst. Cook comes to Hub after 17 years with international IP video company Piksel. “I mapped business processes to system functionality for a variety of end-users with Piksel,” Cook said. “Here at Hub, I’ll be improving the…

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Fanatics Will Need to Change Its Approach Abroad

Plenty of things can be called “stereotypically American”: fireworks, corndogs, country music, reality TV. We have a certain image in the eyes of the world, though not everything this image entails is as prevalent across the board—we are a diverse nation, after all. There is one stereotype, though, that stands to be true, and that…

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How Pizza Hut Is Using Promotional Merchandise to Boost Social Media Engagement

Certain words have a notable knack for producing smiles, with “vacation,” “sleep,” “free” and “raise” being among the finest friends to faces. Fewer examples, though, can engender such anticipation and subsequent satisfaction as “pizza,” which has attained global adulation that not many foods can counter. Serving and delivering more pies than any of its worldwide…

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Fans Very Confused Over Knicks’ Awful Kristaps Porzingis Hats

Not all fan apparel products can be winners. The New York Knicks learned this lesson the hard way when the team launched its new Kristaps Porzingis hats for sale in the Madison Square Garden shop. A good tip for any team embroidering a player’s likeness on hats is to make sure the finished product actually…

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Apparently, No One Wants Pink Hunting Gear

Millennial pink might be the most popular shade of 2017, but pink is a huge miss in the hunting apparel world. According to USA Today, blaze pink, a legal hunting color in Wisconsin, hasn’t been flying off the shelves at several hunting retailers. Blaze pink hunting coats are not selling nearly…

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