Supplier Le Tour de Spice has added Adrienne Barker, MAS, to its sales team. Barker will service promotional products distributors in the Southeast Market region. She has over 35 years in the industry as a distributor, earning her MAS in 2010, and received her lifetime certification in 2020…
Olivia Rodrigo fans have been flooding social media with reports that they’ve received merchandise that is misspelled, damaged, low quality or incorrect items. Those merchandise horror stories are being shared en masse, with the hashtag being viewed more than 15 million times on TikTok…
Next Level Apparel announced today that founder and CEO Joe Simsoly will retire, effective Aug. 8, 2021. Simsoly will continue to serve on Next Level’s board of managers and will remain a significant shareholder in the business. In November 2020, the board of managers recruited and appointed Randy Hales as Next Level’s co-CEO as part…
PromoCares is introducing its Sleep In 4 Good event on Nov. 8, 2021, the day after Daylight Savings Time (DST) ends. The Sleep In 4 Good event will raise awareness around the stigma of mental health and its connection to sleep deprivation while raising funds for the National Alliance on Mental Illness…
Forbes is giving readers a new way to connect with content through the launch of its Forbes Store e-commerce platform. In addition to a standard assortment of Forbes-branded merchandise, the publication will partner with a rotating cast of designers and artists for brand-specific capsules…
Industry companies are reporting difficulties hiring, both for positions vacated due to layoffs at the start of the pandemic and for new positions necessary to meet surging demand. These issues are contributing to slower production times for suppliers already navigating supply chain challenges and causing problems for distributors as the economy rebounds…
A distributor works directly with a client to determine every detail of the order and relays that to a decorator, who completes the technical aspect of the project. Decorators acknowledge the distributor’s role when creating their contract pricing. But what should distributors expect out of that relationship?…
Just like you have different promotional suppliers for different products, you’ll need the same for different decoration methods or geographic locations to reduce transit from your preferred supplier warehouse or to the order’s final destination. So you’ll want to have solid relationships with more than one contract decorator…
Distributors sometimes opt to bring decoration in-house, and there are some good reasons to go this route. However, leaning on a contract decorator has one major perk: The distributor can focus on selling while relying on contract decorators who know a thing or two about decorating apparel already…
UK-based clothing designer Vollebak, which bills itself as making “clothes for the future,” created a black T-shirt dyed with algae, which naturally produces oxygen and absorbs carbon dioxide. Many black dyes are made with a material called carbon black, which is produced by burning petroleum to create a powder used in pigments…