After the 2016 presidential election, we saw just how important promotional products were. The Trump campaign relied heavily on tangible goods, including caps, signs and T-shirts, to get the message…
Approximately 600 former American Apparel employees who were laid off following the company’s sale to Gildan Activewear will receive new job skills training as part of a $3 million award from the California Employment Development Department. The award is designed to retrain workers impacted by the company’s bankruptcy and sale this year. The award will…
Promo Marketing’s Video Battle pits two industry videos against each other for the chance at the ultimate bragging right: Being declared our readership’s absolute favorite. (Next up: We have to get back to the routine of five-day weeks again.) Last week, Ariel Premium Supply won, and now will face off against Wearable Imaging. The winner will…
Quality Certification Alliance (QCA), Chicago, the promotional product industry’s only independent, non-governmental accreditation organization dedicated to helping companies provide safe products, has expanded its Distributor Advocacy Council (DAC) with the addition of Mississauga, Ontario-based Cotton Candy. The DAC mission is to elevate the standards by which firms that import and manufacture products are consistently delivering…
When a franchise’s fans endure an agonizing period between championships, one might expect that waiting an additional two months for an item that commemorates the conclusion of the undesired delay would…
It seems the Consumer Product Safety Commission damnation and multiple tragedies caused by hoverboards weren’t enough to fully take them off the market, as the hoverboard is getting the “Shark Tank” (or Dallas Mavericks) treatment. Just make sure you don’t call this model a toy, because it’s seriously meant for serious adults, apparently. Business Mogul…
At least 13 people are dead and dozens are injured after a boiler explosion at a garment facility near Dhaka, Bangladesh, Al Jazeera reported. The blast happened late Monday at a plant operated by Multifabs while it was undergoing maintenance. The boiler, which was located in a tin-roofed shed, damaged a nearby three-floor building. [caption…
Prime Line, Bridgeport, Conn., has released its 2017 Awareness Collection featuring a new breast cancer awareness bundle of event-themed products across multiple platforms, including a digital catalog. Prime Line’s Awareness Collection features many items to promote breast cancer awareness and other causes. The 12-page Awareness Collection catalog features 49 items from the Prime Line and…
Leave it to the members of the indie rock band Arcade Fire to be the latest figures who have refused to blow smoke up the you-know-what of Kendall…
Remember how Balenciaga was selling that bag that looked an awful lot like Ikea shopping bags for the extremely reasonable price of $2,000? Well, it seems the high-end company has created another product that looks like your run-of-the-mill shopping bag, but at an exorbitant price. This is the $1,100 Balencia bag.…