NAPCO Media, a leading B-to-B media company, today announced that Marc Held has joined the company as president of Promo Marketing Group, whose brands include Promo Marketing, Power Meetings, Print+Promo and Distributor Connect. Held brings more than 22 years of industry experience to Promo Marketing. He has dedicated his career to helping suppliers grow their…
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced yesterday that it is recalling the Todd Snyder + Champion brand sweatshirts, manufactured by WS and Co. and distributed by Todd Snyder, after they did not meet federal flammability standards, posing a potential burn risk to customers. The company sold about 2,100…
Nobody could even think to deny that 2017 has proven an amazingly profitable year for Disney, whose overseers will certainly enjoy their Monday morning coffee when discussing this weekend’s “Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi” returns. The stretch has also made rose gold even more of a loved and lucrative hue, with Disney…
National Pen Co., headquartered in San Diego, Calif., announced that it plans to create more than 250 jobs at its facility in Dundalk, Ireland, over the next five years as part of an expansion plan. This comes after National Pen Co. was acquired by Venlo, Netherlands-based Cimpress last year. “A year ago in December 2016,…
WOWLine, Syosset, N.Y., announced that it has hired Andy Arruda, MAS, as its new national sales manager. In his new role, Arruda will be responsible for managing all sales efforts. Prior to joining WOWLine, he was a national sales manager for Braintree, Massachusetts-based Hub Pen Company. Arruda has more than 30 years of extensive industry…
Get more opportunities by staying focused on on solving problems instead of on selling stuff. We are so “me too” in this business, and then we complain about being price shopped, not given a chance to compete, being ignored or—worst of all—not even noticed. Your problem may not be that you don’t have any value…
The use of wearable technology in the form of watches that track things like heart rates and steps, clothing that monitors athletic activity and more, has been growing in popularity all over the world. According to Marketing Interactive, China’s wearable tech market will pass the U.S. by the end of this year, with more than…
Smartphone integration is the way of the future. It’s not even a debate anymore. We see it with apparel, footwear, paper products and more. To try to ease one of the most stressful parts of airline travel—checking (and possibly…
FreePromoTips.com is hosting its 4th annual SuccessFit4Life! Event at the PPAI Expo, benefitting the Promotional Products Education Foundation (PPEF). A group of industry suppliers are supporting this event by providing SuccessFit4Life!-branded products that can be picked up at the Expo. To participate, go to the SuccessFit4Life! PPEF donation page here. Gifts of all sizes are…
2017 has yielded numerous significant popular culture anniversaries, but it has definitely not found itself falling short in marking notable historical occurrences, too. Often lost in the latter because of the far-reaching severity that the other events hold, the centennial celebration of Finland’s declaration of independence from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic nonetheless has…