World Emblem, North Miami, Fla., announced that it has relocated its Canadian facility to a new, larger manufacturing plant in Mississauga, Ontario. The relocation comes as a result of the company’s growth over the past few years. The new office space is approximately 10,000 sq. ft., which makes it twice the size of its previous…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule on Friday stating that companies can no longer market consumer antibacterial soap products including certain active ingredients. The ruling said that manufacturers did not demonstrate that certain ingredients are safe for long-term daily use and more effective than plain soap and water in terms of…
SandlerResearch.org, Pune, India, released its forecasts for the future global safety apparel market. The research company expects the global safety apparel market to grow 8.12 percent from 2016 to 2020. The Global Safety Apparel Market 2016-2020 report cited nanotechnology…
This is what you clients want. This is what your staff wants. This is what your colleagues want. This is what baby boomers want. This is what millennials want. This is what my kids want. This is what my wife wants. This is a nearly universal truth. People want to be heard. Listen. Listening is…
It seems college football rivalries are heating up, and T-shirts have become the recent battleground. First, the University of Southern California (USC) campus bookstore released a “Roll Tears Roll” T-shirt, an insult geared toward Alabama’s “Roll Tide” slogan, ahead of the Alabama-USC opener Saturday. And now, an unaffiliated University of Alabama T-shirt has garnered legal action, according…
In my last article, I wrote about the first type of business plan, which is really having no plan at all. The sad fact is that more than 90 percent of business owners and sales representatives have no real plan for their businesses or their lives. The second of the three types of plans is…
Thanks to blockbusters like “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” and “Minions,” Marketplace reported that global retail sales of licensed merchandise are up approximately $10 billion over last year, according to a…
Just like you would never cut corners while building a skyscraper, digging a water line or fixing a subway car, labor workers don’t want the companies that make their apparel to cut corners, either. End-users want apparel and gear that works as hard as they do. For distributors, that means providing products that have durable…
Promo Marketing’s Video Battle pits two industry videos against each other for the chance at the ultimate bragging right: Being declared our readership’s absolute favorite. Last week, EMT won, and now will face off against Minuteman Press South Hills. The winner will be decided by a simple poll. The poll will close the morning of Friday,…
Terry Town, a San Diego, California-based supplier of towels, blankets and robes, announced the hiring of Scott Blankenship and Sharon Wohlleber to represent the company in the Southwest territory. They will represent the line in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas. “My first attraction to Scott and Sharon was their experience, but have learned that there’s…