Personal Care

Whether for business or pleasure, the recovering travel and hotel industries provide promotional profits.

Politics related to health care are complicated; promotional products associated with health and fitness are not.

Natural Trends announced that it has been named exclusive channel partner for five major national brands, including WD-40, Spot Shot, OxiOut, Lava and Max-Freeze.

Fenton, Missouri-based Quick Point announced it is introducing a line of greeting cards with antimicrobial phone pads attached. Quick Point’s antimicrobial phone pad protects a phone from the growth of harmful germs and bacteria for 12 months, reinforcing the greeting cards' sentiments for a full year.

HEALTH-RELATED MARKETING messages may be among the most persistent and ever-present of the modern era. Lose weight, eat right and quit smoking. Get six-pack abs, remember to wash your hands and watch out for restless leg syndrome. Try this new form of diabetes testing, this new multivitamin or this new sleeping aid.

Natural Trends, a leading supplier of hand sanitizer, based out of Provo, Utah, announced a large quantity of patent-violating product has been surrendered to the company by an unnamed industry competitor.

St. Louis-based Ariel Premium Supply announced it launched a new service designed to help distributors increase sales. The new Flyer Wizard service allows distributors to select up to 10 Ariel Premium Supply products,

Prime Line, Bridgeport, Conn., announced it hosted the 2009 annual International Partnership for Premiums and Gifts (IPPAG) USA Meeting at its Bridgeport headquarters.

In my last post, I mentioned that I was going to write a bit about selling to the hotel industry this week. Larry Wilhelm, president and owner of Custom HBC, gave me a ton of information that I wasn't able to use for my March travel feature, but I thought was interesting and useful and I don't want to let it slip by. What follows is Wilhelm explaining different ways distributors can target the hotel industry with health-care promotions, more or less directly from our interview, edited only for length and clarity.

Members of the PPAI Leadership Advisory Committee released a message for its members urging participation in the industry by submitting a nomination form for the PPAI Board of Directors.