The Vernon Company, Netwon, Iowa, awarded Rick Buckley, who represents Tri-Mountain, Irwindale, Calif., as Supplier Account Manager of the Year at the company’s national sales meeting held April 18 to 20 in Des Moines, Iowa. The Vernon Company…
MOMA is launching an exhibit that will feature clothing from the last hundred years; Miami high school students were sent home for wearing Haitian flag shirts; J.C. Penney will focus less on apparel; a North Carolina school district wants to ban skinny jeans; and more people are renting clothes instead of buying: Here’s what’s happening this week in the apparel world…
Beginning today, promotional products professionals are in Washington D.C. for Promotional Products Association International’s (PPAI) seventh annual Legislative Education and Action Day (L.E.A.D.). Participants will attend education sessions and go to Capitol Hill, where they will meet with legislators and staff. “This week marks our seventh annual L.E.A.D. event, and it just gets better every year,”…
H&M is under fire this week as a result of a new report from the Asia Floor Wage Alliance, according to Broadly. The report accuses H&M of exploiting workers in its factories in…
In the promotional products industry, suppliers and distributors work hard to build relationships with one another—trusting that the other half of the relationship cares as much about the product and the end-user as they do. So how would you feel if you found out that supplier or distributor wouldn’t even buy its own product? Super confident, right? No, of course not…
Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis winner Simon Pagenaud now owns two Grand Prix Cups created by Chicago-based R.S. Owens after winning his third IndyCar race in a row last weekend at the Angie’s List Grand Prix of Indianapolis. The Grand Prix winner’s cup is topped by an oversized 18” diameter bowl. Before assembly, the…
The unofficial start of summer is here—Memorial Day. Whether you have a barbecue, parade or beach day planned, you’ll definitely want to sport U.S. flag apparel. Here are some products that can inspire you to show your U.S. pride and honor those who’ve died while serving our country…
This week, UCLA and Under Armour announced a $280 million sponsorship deal over 15 years, making it the largest college sponsorship ever, according to The New York Times. The three largest power players in the sportswear arena—Under Armour, Nike and Adidas—have been signing progressively larger…
Fitbits have proven to save lives and detect lies and may someday advance science, but a new study found Fitbit’s heart rate trackers in multiple models of the devices to be unreliable. The catch, however, is the law firm behind a lawsuit against Fitbit funded the study that researchers at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Calif., conducted…
Staples sales declined in a quarter in which the company announced the sale of Staples Print Solutions and awaited the Federal Trade Commission’s decision on its proposed acquisition of Office Depot…