It was a good year for promotional products distributors. According to our data, the Top 50 totaled $5.033 billion in promotional products sales in 2017, up more than $500 million from our previous list’s $4.476 billion tally. Of the 44 distributors on this year’s list that also appeared on last year’s edition, 37 saw increased promotional products revenue from 2016 to 2017…
It’s back! Each year for more than a decade, Promo Marketing has compiled a ranking of the biggest promotional products distributors. The 2018 Top 50 Distributors list is the result: a comprehensive ranking of the largest companies in the business, ranked by 2017 sales volume. The list is a helpful reference tool for distributor companies…
A group of activists used promotional products typically used for team spirit to protest when they showed up to the Congressional Baseball Game on Thursday with T-shirts, can coolers and foam fingers. The items weren’t to cheer on the players, mind you. They were to remind the players (members of Congress) about legislation protecting “Dreamers”—undocumented…
YouTube has negotiated a deal with Teespring that will see the company earning a commission of a small flat percentage on every sale made through the platform. Though prices will vary per item, and creators have the right to mark up these prices…
In this environment, it’s hard enough to fight for elbow room, let alone to come up for air every once in a while. To do so is a crucial element to marketing successfully, as it allows one to survey not only the competition, but one’s own methods as well…
Nobody can deny the ubiquitous presence of social media marketing, so it is compelling to inspect which channels have proven most effective for B2B marketers. LinkedIn, which 97 percent of B2B marketers use for their content marketing efforts, took the top spot in a Content Marketing Institute survey…
The Supreme Court surprised the e-commerce world by ruling that states can require retailers to collect sales tax from online shoppers even in places where the business has no physical presence. This is a reversal of a previous Supreme Court decision set in 1992, which said that the Constitution doesn’t allow states to require businesses…
With more and more millennials tossing their paychecks toward fast fashion brands like Zara, H&M, Forever 21 and ASOS, and abandoning the allure of brand names, it’s shocking that luxury fashion brand Gucci even has any skin left in the game. And yet, today’s teens are lining up to spend $590 on the company’s iconic…
Though he’s captaining the Mexican national soccer team at the World Cup, Rafael Márquez isn’t warming up in the same apparel or drinking from the same branded drinkware as the rest of his El Tri teammates. It’s not because he gets some special captain privileges. Quite the opposite, actually. It’s because Márquez is currently on…
We’ve been following Under Armour’s fall from grace for some time now. The company’s failure to innovate, the decline of its third party retailers and its own inventory issues contributed to its sales slump, but a recent development might be a sign Under Armour is getting back on track. According to Market Realist, Under Armour…