Leveraging their more than 35 years working with leading promotional products suppliers and distributors, Kelsey Cunningham and Bill Petrie today announced the launch of brandivate, a full-service business services agency that will drive marketing, sales and branding solutions. “When Bill and I started talking about forming a business, we both saw a void in the…
Storm Creek, Eagan, Minn., announced that it has donated $7,500 to support the hungry through Feeding America’s COVID-19 Response Fund. The funds will go to support overrun food banks and pantries struggling to keep up with demand during the coronavirus pandemic. According to Feeding America, more than 41 million Americans are currently unemployed. In fact,…
Pantone partnered with apparel brand Fuzzed Up Bear for a project called the Human Being Initiative, created to raise funds for the Black Lives Matter movement, the ACLU and Campaign Zero. The line includes a T-shirt, onesie and face mask, each with a design featuring the Pantone color square, but over a person’s arm with the shade’s name listed as “Human Being”…
For this year’s “Brandcast Delivered” virtual event, the YouTube team leaned into the “delivered” theme by delivering promo boxes for viewers to enjoy the broadcast from home. The personalized packages consisted of three separate sub-boxes labeled “Take,” “Make” and “Bake,” with ingredients for DIY pizzas and various promotional gifts…
Jenna Kadziulis, social media coordinator for S&S Activewear, is the creative force behind the supplier’s DIY ideas and other killer social media content. And she had a lot to offer about how to create other kinds of engaging content, especially on Instagram…
We’re still seeing a surplus of quarantine trends like DIY home projects, recreations of Disney theme-park dishes, and of course, tie-dye clothing. That last trend has made it to popular retail brands like Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters and even band merch, with Jared Leto’s rock band, “Thirty Seconds to Mars,” launching a DIY tie-dye merch kit…
American Solutions for Business (ASB), Glenwood, Minn., has promoted Amy Spychalla to vice president of strategic operations support (SOS). Spychalla joined the company in January 2003 as a promotional product specialist, helping to promote…
Los Angeles Apparel, the company founded by former American Apparel leader Dov Charney and one of the first and most notable brands to use its manufacturing capabilities to make face masks during the pandemic, has shut down after more than 100 workers in its facilities tested positive for COVID-19…
Forget your mask? One guy thinks he’s invented a product that quickly solves that problem. Using a 3-D printer, Kurt Schramm designed a plastic device that people can attach to their T-shirts, using the fabric to create a face covering that’s much more elegant than just pulling your face into your shirt like a turtle…