Now, we’re all for weird and whacky promotions. We routinely feature these sorts of promos, especially from fast food and snack companies. From Wendy’s to Arby’s to Taco Bell to Pizza Hut and beyond, brands have been lining up to embrace the millennial generations often-surrealist humor by offering bizarre clothing lines and jewelry products in promotions. But this time, Einstein Bros. has gone too far…
Lithium-Ion batteries have been a focal point of the promotional products industry for years now. Their inclusion in a multitude of electronic devices has made them ubiquitous, but their volatility has made them somewhat controversial. Think of items like hoverboards and wireless headphones—both items that existed in the promotional products space and have also been…
Vantage Apparel, Avanel, N.J., is now an approved decorator for the SanMar Pack Separately, Ship Together (PSST) program at each of its locations in Avenel, N.J.; St. Louis; and Santa Ana, Calif. Distributors will benefit from free shipping into Vantage, no restocking fees, a spoilage protection plan, and more. All three locations are approved to…
More than 400 Proforma owners, supplier partners and support team members gathered at the Fairmont Mayakoba Resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico, from March 15 to 18 to celebrate their 2017 sales success. Every year, Proforma owners achieving at least $1…
Old Spice has come up with a brand new approach to scent strip technology in its new print ad for GQ. Ok, so actually it’s not a scent strip at all. Instead, Old Spice partnered with Wieden + Kennedy to create an insert that holds within a disposable, wearable, red paper blazer that also happens to be generously infused with one of the brand’s Red Collection “signature scents.” Whatever that means…
March Madness is a profitable time. The tournament itself rakes in more than $1 billion in television ad revenue. That’s not to mention what the schools themselves make. The Washington Post reported that in 2014, a tournament berth (even a first-round loss) earned a school $1.67 million. A spot in the Sweet 16 is worth…
After reporting what CEO Fred Durham called “disappointing” fiscal year 2017 results, CafePress has continued with another batch of layoffs, and has parted ways with its chief operating officer and two board members. This comes after a first wave of layoffs in January, when the company let go of 14 employees and Durham slashed his…
Aside from my age, certain behaviors and beliefs lead me to feel creaky occasionally, including my penchant for beginning a majority of my email correspondences with “Dear.” Well, it turns out I could be accelerating my journey to becoming a fossil, as a study by Boomerang showed that the formal introduction trailed four other salutations…
So what does this mean? Is there a whole swathe of people out there who have been turned into bobbleheads? Surely this can’t be an isolated incident. If it somehow is, then something must be done about this before other professional athletes start turning into the bobbleheads we collect in order to pay homage to them. We have to stop this before things start to get even weirder…
Hub Pen Company, Braintree, Mass., announced the addition of associate account executive Mitch Warren to the inside sales team. Warren has promotional marketing in his blood: His father is a distributor in his hometown of Scituate, Mass., and Warren started his own small marketing business while attending the University…