Management
October 10, 2016 at 2:44 pm
AIA Corporation, Neenah, Wisc., announced today the appointment of Matthew T. Gresge as CEO. Effective immediately, Gresge replaces David Woods, who will retire after 14 years of service to AIA and more than 25 years in the promotional products industry. “After David announced his retirement, AIA conducted an extensive, nationwide search to find AIA’s next…
October 7, 2016 at 6:19 pm
After a series of consolidation in the international shipping community, and a declaration from South Korean shipping firm Hanjin Shipping that government-backed companies made competition impossible, two of China's largest shipping companies agreed to combine…
October 7, 2016 at 5:57 pm
Question: What do you know about buying groups? Answer: There are variations of buying groups in our industry—from a couple of distributors banding together loosely to companies that offer other services and approaches. To answer this question fully, I went to Jamie Coggeshall, president of AIMastermind (AIM), a group that purely is a buying group.…
October 7, 2016 at 5:41 pm
In conjunction with Customer Service Week, which began Monday, Prime Line, Bridgeport, Conn., is celebrating its customer care teams in Bridgeport and at its Jetline facility in Gaffney, S.C., with daily events, including team building…
October 6, 2016 at 5:52 pm
As Hurricane Matthew makes its way up the East Coast, multiple suppliers located in Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina are taking steps to ensure their business goes on…
October 6, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Some day, I'm going to change! Many adults still are struggling to find out what they want to do. Oh, they're busy. But mostly they react and react and react, and never really set their own directions. They expend a lot of energy trying to make a living and spend little time making a life.…
October 6, 2016 at 3:40 pm
Spector & Co., a West Chazy, New York-based supplier of writing instruments and business gifts, announced the hiring of Shashi Singam as director of digital media based out of its head office. Singam comes to Spector & Co. with…
October 5, 2016 at 6:33 pm
Sonic Promos, Gaithersburg, Md., welcomed Jay Shaplin and J4 Promotional Marketing, Eldridge, Md., to the Sonic Promos family. In his new role, Shaplin will act as Sonic Promo’s senior brand manager and vendor relations manager. "I am very happy to have made the move over to Sonic Promos,” Shaplin said. “I met [Sonic Promos owners]…
October 4, 2016 at 6:11 pm
Cho Yang-ho, chairman of Hanjin Shipping, the South Korean shipping company, said that the company's demise was a result of playing "a game of chicken" with large, government-backed shipping companies. The company sought receivership after…
October 4, 2016 at 5:58 pm
Geiger, Lewiston, Maine, announced that it will renovate its former manufacturing space into a state-of-the-art office facility. When finished, the space will occupy 105,000 sq. ft. and make room for a planned 25 to 50 new employees over the next three to five years. As part of the project, the company took steps to ensure…