BIC Graphic Expert Series – Calendars

Part of the BIC Graphic Expert Sessions, this webinar focuses on Calendars, one of the top 10 categories in promotional products. This webinar is designed to provide the tools you need to be successful in selling calendars while adding value for your customers.

Hospitality Mints Acquired by Food Manufacturer

Hospitality Mints, Boone, N.C., announced that it has been acquired by Mount Franklin Foods LLC, the El Paso, Texas-based parent company of Sunrise Confections, Azar Nut Company and Mount Franklin Nutritionals. The acquisition is effective immediately, and Hospitality Mints’ production will stay in its North Carolina location. “As part of our continued effort to strategically…

Xbox Is Giving Away Branded, Grease-Proof Controllers

For anyone who’s played the popular online video game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, otherwise known as PUBG, you’re likely familiar with the phrase “Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.” The catchy rhyme displays every time you win in the game. Eating an entire chicken dinner while you’re playing, though, seems impractical and messy, to say the least. Xbox Australia…

Not Yet, Cleveland: Bud Light Rules Browns Tie Not Enough to Open Promotional Beer Fridges

Despite a valiant effort, the Cleveland Browns could not conquer the Pittsburgh Steelers, with a blocked field goal in overtime sealing a 21-21 tie. In going from supporting a team with a losing streak to one with a winless stretch, many fans had hope Bud Light would unlock the victory fridges it had placed in and around Cleveland watering holes, but the beer company made it clear fans would have to wait for an actual win…

Ad Bands Parent Company Wins Unfair Competition Case Against Overseas Companies

The U.S. Commerce Department announced that it has made a preliminary ruling that imports of rubber bands from Asian markets like China and Thailand amount to dumping. This ruling stemmed from a petition filed this year by Alliance Rubber Co., Hot Springs, Ark., the parent company of Ad Bands Plus and the largest rubber band…