Management

As part of our 2021 Top Distributors list, we asked some of the top-ranked distributors about how they fared during the first year of the pandemic, their thoughts on the industry, their future plans and more. Here, we talked to Andy Shape of Stran Promotional Solutions, the No. 30 company on this year's list...

As part of our 2021 Top Distributors list, we asked some of the top-ranked distributors about how they fared during the first year of the pandemic, their thoughts on the industry, their future plans and more. Here, we talked to Marc Simon of HALO Branded Solutions, the No. 1 company on this year's list...

For many distributors, the coronavirus pandemic has been a mixed bag of challenges and opportunities, ups and downs. That helped shape our newly combined (and expanded) 2021 Top 75 Distributors list. According to our data, the top 75 print and promotional products distributors totaled $6.79 billion in 2020 sales...

Geiger has promoted Geiger UK managing director Vicky Kinasz to its executive team and Elizabeth Fagan to vice president of Crestline. Kinasz will work on strategic planning, policy, and overall future business growth and direction for Geiger. Fagan will oversee all aspects of the Crestline business unit...

For decades, Topps owned the baseball card market. The company had an exclusive contract with Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association. A few weeks ago, Topps was blindsided when MLB and MLBPA announced a new exclusive contract with the online sports merchandise retailer Fanatics Inc. There are two big lessons here...

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After 28 years of mastering its craft and its acquisition by HPG in 2020, Webb Company has changed its name to “Mixie.” With the new company name comes a new logo, website, font, marketing collateral, product photography and entire visual identity system, along with a newly completed, state-of-the-art production facility...

commonsku, a Toronto-based promotional products business and sales software, has hired industry veteran and former distributor Anna Nguyen as director of product management. Nguyen was most recently a former partner and the chief operating officer at Monarch, a Chicago-based distributor...

Sendoso, another startup in the rapidly growing gifting-as-a-service space, recently landed $100 million in Series C funding. That brings the company's funding total to $152 million, surpassing the totals of Snappy and Alyce, two similar startups that have attracted significant attention from venture capital firms over the last year or so...