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SAAGNY announced today that the Quality Certification Alliance (QCA), the promotional products industry's only independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping companies provide safe products, is the 2011 PROMOTIONS EAST Education Sponsor.
David Woods, president and CEO of AIA Corporation, Neenah, Wis., announced today that AIA has agreed to purchase the assets and business of Houston-based Flagship Promotional Services.
In the spring of 2007, James Siminoff hired a branding consultant to help him with a problem. He believed that a lousy name—SimulScribe—was holding back his young mobile-software company. The New York City business had raised $5.7 million from angel investors and released software that could transcribe a voice-mail message, then send it to customers as an e-mail or a text message. SimulScribe's user base was growing 20 percent a month, and the technology had attracted buzz in the tech press, including a glowing review in The New York Times.
This year's survey of the best cities for jobs contains one particularly promising piece of news: the revival of the country's long distressed industrial sector and those regions most dependent on it.
Manufacturing has grown consistently over the past 21 months, and now, for the first time in years, according to data mined by Pepperdine University's Michael Shires, manufacturing regions are beginning to move up on our list of best cities for jobs.
United Kingdom-based Altitude Group, parent to Trade Only, announced today that it had received an indicative offer for the company's promotional marketing division. The company did not disclose who made the offer at the time of print.
Sue Kennedy, president of the UMAPP board of directors and regional sales manager for Crown Products, contacted Promo Marketing to provide further details about yesterday's KSTP 5 Eyewitness News article.
Staples closed Friday's positive trading session at $20.89. In the past year, the stock has hit a 52-week low of $17.45 and 52-week high of $23.75. Staples stock has been showing support around $20.48 and resistance in the $21.58 range.
U.S. manufacturing companies, long known for layoffs and shipping jobs overseas, now find themselves in a very different position: scrambling for scarce talent at home.
Large and small manufacturers of everything from machine tools to chemicals are scouring for potential hires in high schools, community colleges and the military. They are poaching from one another, retraining people who used to have white-collar jobs, and in some cases even hiring former prisoners who learned machinist skills behind bars.
Even with unemployment near 9 percent, manufacturers are struggling to find enough skilled workers because of a confluence of three trends.
A report aired Sunday night on 5 Eyewitness News in Minnesota, criticizing the state for spending money on promotional products. Watch the video and let us know what you think.
Within the next five years, the United States is expected to experience a manufacturing renaissance as the wage gap with China shrinks and certain U.S. states become some of the cheapest locations for manufacturing in the developed world, according to a new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
