The 2024 Proforma Annual Convention and Family Reunion recently occurred at the Loews Hotel in Kansas City, MO, drawing nearly 600 Proforma affiliates, suppliers, sales professionals and support team members.
Brendan Menapace
Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based World Emblem just announced the launch of a new patch application product called Flexbroidery, which it bills as “a more cost-effective and sustainable solution than traditional direct embroidery.” Rather than weaving the fabric onto the product, it uses a low-melt heat seal to apply the patch directly. “Thanks to its convenient heat…
If Lululemon and Nike's Olympic styles are good enough for the biggest names in sports, they can influence any distributor’s apparel promos.
Expanding legalization and changing perception have made the cannabis market one of the most opportunity-filled for distributors of both print and promotional products. But, there's still a lot they should learn before they jump in.
Promo firms that decorate in-house often outsource decoration jobs that might be expensive or require equipment that they don’t have in-house.
SmartSource account executive Jake Epstein Epstein has been creating promos and campaigns that blend signage, print products, plastic cards, and promotional hard goods for the tourism, hospitality, and gaming industries.
New York is prohibiting small toiletry bottles in hotel rooms beginning in 2025, creating an opportunity for larger-bottle orders, or even entirely different designs for single-use products with special packaging.
Coloreel Group AB, a Swedish company that specializes in thread-dyeing technology for embroidery, has filed for bankruptcy this week citing “an inability to develop its business volume quickly enough and, related to this, secure the necessary financing.” Serving customers in more than 20 countries, Coloreel seeks to make the embroidery process more efficient while reducing…
Studies released this week estimated that the digital textile printing market could grow close to $3.3 billion by 2028 and the digital packaging printing market near $60 billion by 2030.
One of New York City’s unlicensed cannabis stores had its own in-house printing operation for labels and packaging.
A study found that an overwhelming majority of sports fans would buy WNBA or other women’s sports merchandise if it were more available.
Lessons in quick turns and minimizing variables from Atlas Embroidery & Screen Printing, who printed the Florida Panthers' Stanley Cup merchandise
A highway sign on I-95 temporarily guided drivers on I-95 to ‘Cenrtal Phila,’ until it was fixed by PennDOT.
Hey, want to feel old? This August will be the 21st anniversary of the launch of Myspace. Yes, the social media platform that pretty much started all of this with an unassuming guy named Tom who claims he is your friend, will be old enough to drink. In the decades since, we’ve had the dawn…
The streaming service has been creating immersive experiences and consumer brand tie-ins, but its debt situation could keep it from more aggressively marketing one of the biggest names in modern entertainment.