Have a More Successful Trade Show Experience by Knowing Your ‘Why’

As PRINTING United Expo  rapidly approaches, it’s likely that you are purchasing airline tickets, making hotel reservations, and planning your itinerary. These are all good and necessary things. But in order to have the most successful show possible, it’s helpful to back up a little bit. Why are you going in the first place? At…

Geiger Acquires UK-Based Brandelity

Geiger is continuing its strategic expansion into the U.K. with the acquisition of Brandelity Ltd. Financial terms of the deal weren’t released.

PostcardMania Second Quarter Revenue Up as Direct Mail Automation Leads Growth

PostcardMania, the $104.6 million marketing technology firm with 384 staff, increased second quarter revenues significantly over the same quarter last year, improving 12% over Q2 2023, as more businesses choose direct mail to reach increasingly digital-exhausted consumers. PostcardMania’s direct mail automation products and automation-led division, PCM Integrations, remain at the…

S&S Activewear Acquires alphabroder

Counselor Top 40 supplier S&S Activewear (asi/84358) has acquired fellow Top 40 firm alphabroder (asi/34063), bringing together two of the largest suppliers in the promo industry. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The transaction is expected to be complete later this year, and the companies will continue to go to market under their respective…

Attorneys To Judge: Dismiss Lawsuit Against Stanley Drinkware’s Parent Company

Throw it out. That’s what Pacific Market International (PMI), parent company of the popular Stanley tumbler drinkware brand, wants a federal judge to do with a class action lawsuit consumers brought against it over lead concerns. On Wednesday July 31, attorneys for PMI filed a motion in federal court in Washington state to dismiss the…

End-Buyer Research: Companies With 11-50 Employees

ASI Research has launched a new series profiling the people distributors work with most closely: end-buyers. Each week we’ll release a new data set that spotlights one of eight markets and looks at end-buyers through demographics such as gender, region and company size. Read the previous entries in our End-Buyer research series. This week, our research focuses…