The Pro Towels Family of Brands, including Pro Towels, Kanata Blanket Co., Neet Feet and Superior, announced today that Neil Friedman has joined the company as director of business development and the FOTO Vision line. Prior to joining the team,…
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The Best And Worst Gear From The 2018 Winter Olympics
That’s right folks, it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for. It’s time for the definitive, indisputable, completely not in any way biased (or the work of one week-weary editor on a rainy Sunday morning) roundup of the best and worst Olympic merchandise. Enough stalling. Let’s begin…
Charles River’s Barry Lipsett Has a Philly-Themed Feast After Losing Super Bowl Bet
We haven’t really made too much of an effort to hide our Eagles pride here at Promo Marketing. (And we shouldn’t have to hide it. We’ve waited a long time for this!) Others, especially our neighbors a few hours up I-95, aren’t so excited about the Eagles’ historic win. Barry Lipsett, president of Sharon, Massachusetts-based…
Snapchat Proved It Can Work for E-Commerce—Here’s Why That Matters
While this is a retail-heavy promotion, there could be some interesting opportunities for promotional marketing in the realm of ecommerce as well. Imagine a user-friendly app that could allow end-users to pick out whatever promotional products they need for an event or marketing campaign. The app could link directly to a distributor, and even to the manufacturer…
Chocolate Chocolate Hires Chris Dollar Marketing Group
Chocolate Chocolate, Blaine, Wash., announced the recent hire of Chris Dollar and team at Chris Dollar Marketing Group LLC (CDMG) as its new multi-line agency in New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. CDMG will help them in continuing to provide customers with quality custom molded chocolate throughout these territories. Dollar and his team…
The Cincinnati Reds Don’t Want to Pay Taxes Ohio Says They Owe for Promotional Giveaways
Minus a winning season since 2013 and not expected to break that streak this year, the Cincinnati Reds do not figure to make many headlines for their play as they look to emerge from the National League Central Division’s basement. However, as the 2018 campaign unfolds, one can expect to read about what the Ohio…
An Itemized List of (Not Quite) Every Promotional Product Canada’s Government Purchased Last Year
Wondering what makes up the Canadian government’s promotional product spending? So were we! Luckily, courtesy of iPolitics, we have a list of dollar figures, items and quantities. And you better believe there’s maple syrup involved…
Branded Merch Shop at Center of Ugly NCAA Legal Battle
The NCAA, armed with testimony from Mississippi State players Leo Lewis and Kobe Jones, accused Rebel Rags of supplying the players with $2,800 worth of free merchandise. It seems that before Lewis and Jones committed to play at Mississippi State, the two went on a recruiting trip to Ole Miss, where the alleged rule violation took place…
Arizona Introduces Legislation to Limit Marijuana Packaging
As marijuana becomes legal in medical and recreational uses around the U.S. and abroad, lawmakers have been debating the way dispensaries will be able to market their products. Should they be able to market them like any other consumer product? Should they market them in a way that is careful not to appeal to minors?…
Michigan Wolverines 2013 Champs T-shirts Were Available Mere Hours After NCAA Vacated Louisville Title
Owing to my allegiance to the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team, I considered almost sacrilegious the 2001 decision by Rick Pitino, who had guided the Wildcats to the 1998 NCAA title, to assume the head coaching position at the University of Louisville. Therefore, I let the latter school’s 2013 coronation as the tournament titlists…
