S&S Activewear, Bolingbrook, Ill., just opened a wholesale apparel distribution center on the West Coast—changing the promo apparel industry’s game with a brand new, 800,000 square foot facility in Reno, Nev. While Reno’s already a trendsetter in other areas (the video for Eddie Money’s “Take Me Home Tonight” was filmed in the Lawlor Events Center,…
If you’ve seen “Frozen” once (or even never saw it at all), you probably know the chorus of “Let It Go.” The song, sung by Idina Menzel’s character Elsa, is probably the most famous on the soundtrack, which makes it even more crazy that Disney likely won’t be able to use the phrase on its…
Geiger, Lewiston, Maine, announced the promotion of Kerry Worden to regional sales vice president for the southeast. Worden joined Geiger in 1994, initially working in the Maine headquarters before moving to Florida and becoming the Fort Lauderdale office manager. In 2007, Worden was promoted to regional service manager, and…
We’re amazed it took this long, but the New Jersey Devils are finally getting around to the most obvious (and awesome) pop culture throwback promotion. For a matchup against the Pittsburgh Penguins on ’90s night, the team will give away a bobblehead celebrating an iconic “Seinfeld” moment…
The Fashion Apparel Masterclass, or FAM for short, is a first-of-its-kind online educational program geared toward the promotional products industry. Created by BELLA+CANVAS, FAM addresses solutions to the modern challenges the promotional products industry is facing today. So Why Join the FAM? You will learn so much. Everyone from industry vets to brand-new players will…
St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner, and with it, out come the green wearables—green hats and green suits, accented with shamrocks and 4-leaf clovers. Watch as eccentric leprechauns and exuberant maidens line up outside the bars, eager to transport themselves somewhere new and exhilarating. Inside, personalities and mutual enthusiasm come alive; it’s almost…
This has proven an interesting week to be a Los Angeles Rams fan. On Sunday, the high-scoring NFC champions could muster only a field goal in losing Super Bowl LIII to the New England Patriots, and on Wednesday, the franchise found itself having to deal with another formidable opponent: disgruntled former fans…
Question: Can I have SAGE Online integrate with QuickBooks Premier if my QuickBooks is in a cloud-based storage platform? Answer: The SAGE Online system integrates with QuickBooks well—saving time and effort; recreating orders, customers, vendors and items in QB without having to reenter the data. Unfortunately, at this writing, SAGE cannot integrate with QB when…
Imagine if your boss came by your desk one day and said, “Hey, just wanted to let you know that you have had the top sales figures for this company for a whole year! Great work! In lieu of your salary, however, I’m going to give you this T-shirt.” You probably wouldn’t accept that, right?…
We are pretty fond of misnomers around here, with Frederic Chopin’s “Minute Waltz,” which takes no fewer than 90 seconds to play, among our favorites. Since the Grammy Awards “gift bag” has come to include items valued at more than $30,000, we are tempted to add it to our misnomers list, as that thing has come to fit enough stuff to give Santa’s sack a run for its money…