How High Is Your Crane?

I really enjoy watching construction projects, especially massive ones. It is interesting to me that if a project is a 60 story condo, from day one the crane is taller than 60 stories, even though they haven’t even begun the foundation. The same should be true in building your business. From the beginning we entrepreneurs…

UFC Partners With Amazon for Print-On-Demand Licensed Merchandise

UFC announced that it will start working with Amazon Merch on Demand for branded products. The collection, which is available on Amazon, includes licensed apparel like T-shirts, sweatshirts, long sleeve shirts and tank tops; as well as smartphone cases, workout products, bags and more…

Raining Rose Announces Promotions, Changes to Leadership Team

Raining Rose Promos, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, announced that Kate Nash has been promoted to director of promotional sales and director of marketing. In addition, Nate Robson was promoted to vice president of sales and marketing over all divisions of Raining Rose Inc. The changes come in preparation for Raining Rose Promos’ continued growth and strategic expansion…

Patagonia’s New Tee-Cycle T-shirts Are Made From Old, Recycled T-shirts

Patagonia recently set up an apparel repair center in Amsterdam to try to minimize apparel waste. But, for those garments beyond just repair, Patagonia is turning old shirts into new ones. The brand’s new Tee-Cycle T-shirts are made with 100% recycled materials, including fibers made using post-consumer recycled cotton from old T-shirts…

PromoStandards Adds a New Advisory Board Member Amy Rabideau

PromoStandards announced the addition of a new member to its advisory board—Amy Rabideau, vice president of product at Facilisgroup. Rabideau brings to PromoStandards 24 years of experience in the promotional products industry. Prior to working at Facilisgroup, Rabideau was the senior project director at eXtendTech…

MTV ‘Merch Masters’ Is a Design Competition for Music Merchandise

Anyone who discounts branded merchandise as cheap junk doesn’t know all of the work that goes into a well-executed product. Apparently, MTV knows how tough it is, and created a “Project Runway”-style show where designers compete to create the flashiest, most memorable and most stylish branded merchandise for musical artists…