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​DiscountMugs.com, Medley, Fla., has created a small business assistance program to help businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Six diverse businesses were selected in South Florida and awarded a combined $12,000 in customized promotional items from DiscountMugs.com. These items vary from face masks, contactless thermometers, hand sanitizer, shirts, coffee mugs, backpacks and tote bags with…

HALO Branded Solutions, Sterling, Ill., announced that industry distributor Meyer-Dunlap has affiliated with the company. Meyer-Dunlap, founded in 2010 by Kirk Meyer and Craig Dunlap, is one of the most prominent promotional products distributors in North Texas...

Welcome to Market Tracker. This is an updating resource compiling the latest news on coronavirus impacts and economic recovery for top vertical markets promotional products distributors sell into. The Promo Marketing team will update this post regularly with new information from each market as it becomes available. Here are this week's updates...

Seeing communities rally around local businesses affected by the pandemic has been nothing short of inspiring. A lot of these campaigns have involved selling merch to raise money, as was the case for Kelley Rice, owner of Imagination Print & Design, who got to be a part of the effort to raise money for local businesses through promotional products...

You want to talk about immersive promotional experiences? It doesn’t get much more immersive than a Dungeons & Dragons-style role playing game. Indie film distributor A24, which we’ve already crowned as promotional royalty, has released “A Quest For Honor,” a whole roleplaying tabletop game tied in with its upcoming release “The Green Knight”...

During the months-long stay-at-home orders, many of us have had to navigate a new normal. For some,…

CoasterStone, Indianapolis, announced that it has acquired Tree-Free Custom, which has rebranded as 4 Quarts by CoasterStone. 4 Quarts by CoasterStone will now bring activity books, monthly planners, coloring books, playing cards, drinkware and more to CoasterStone’s product line. “Our relationship with Tree-Free Greetings has developed into a strong business partnership over the years,” said…

Yesterday, we included this “Hello Kitty” branded Japanese bullet train in the Fave 5, but we wanted to investigate it a little further because it’s pretty darn impressive. The train debuted in 2018, and pretty much from top to bottom (or engine to caboose), it's decked out in all things “Hello Kitty"...

In an ideal world, we'd have promotional fireworks that explode in a dazzling display of a client's brand name and logo. Until then, we’ll have to just celebrate the many existing promotional products that are awesome and worthy of our admiration every day. Check out this week’s edition of the Fave 5!...

As we head toward the summer, industry professionals know that many variables exist. What, then, should expectations be for the state of business as the economy reopens? And what about further out—what will the promotional products industry look like after the pandemic?...