Promo Products
October 10, 2018 at 3:15 pm
With the holiday season heading our way, it's time to shift focus to holiday and seasonal promotions. After all, nobody wants to be a Grinch. To keep on top of the holiday schedule and to help your clients stay on the Nice List, we spoke to two experts about everything you need to know for 2018 holiday promotions...
October 10, 2018 at 1:53 pm
The college football slate is intensifying, and collegiate hoops soon will commence, meaning that higher learning institutions across the country have many squirrelly matriculants who are hoping their teams will reward their rabid fandom. At Western Kentucky University, enrollees rely on the mascot Big Red to enhance their enjoyment, but they have also been calling…
October 9, 2018 at 1:17 pm
Select bars in the New York tri-state area are now serving IHOPS Pumpkin Pancake Stout, marking yet another news cycle entry for IHOP in what has become an interesting period of branding bravado for the restaurant chain...
October 9, 2018 at 8:37 am
While many of us may be clinking glasses for all things that come with the beginning of October—pumpkins, scarecrows, haunted houses and scary movies—we couldn’t help but get sidetracked when Johnnie Walker announced its new Game of Thrones whisky, called "White Walker." In collaboration with HBO, Johnnie Walker created the limited edition bottle to celebrate…
October 8, 2018 at 11:48 am
Facilisgroup, St. Louis, added New York City-based Captiv8 Promotions Inc. to its fast-growing community of promotional products distributor partners. Founded in 1993, Captiv8 focuses on logoed merchandise, promotional products and event creation. “We are looking forward to growing our already established and successful business through Facilisgroup’s software and best practices," said Larry Shapiro, owner of…
October 5, 2018 at 2:10 pm
It's unclear who started the Team Elon site, a Shopify store selling branded merchandise ostensibly aimed at helping Elon Musk, a billionaire, fight his recent SEC suit. It's kind of like the "Save Ferris" memorabilia from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," only if instead of a lovable '80s goofball Ferris was an ultra-rich entrepreneur smoking weed on podcasts and going on Twitter rants...
October 5, 2018 at 12:02 pm
David Shultz joins commonsku, a promotional products business and sales software, as vice president of supplier partnerships. Shultz has more than 17 years of experience in the promotional products industry and is the former vice president of operations at Distributor Central. A recent PPAI Fellow inductee and recipient of…
October 3, 2018 at 12:14 pm
Sign-Zone LLC (parent company of Showdown Displays), Brooklyn Center, Minn., announced that it has acquired Jansen Display Group (Jansen), a designer and manufacturer of promotional display hardware and signage systems. Headquartered in Prestanov, Czech Republic, with additional offices in Germany, the U.K., Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Spain, Jansen provides customized poster systems, snap frames, poster…
October 3, 2018 at 12:04 pm
When MoMaCha opened its doors in April to serve as a combination teashop and art gallery, the higher-ups at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) found the space’s name pretty sketchy, filing a trademark infringement lawsuit. On Friday, those bigwigs were able to color their case credible, as a Southern District of New York judge…
October 2, 2018 at 1:39 pm
Though it's not a commonly used metric, needing more parking spaces is a good indicator that your company is growing. That sounds like a joke, but it's exactly what happened with iClick, which increased sales by 275 percent over last year. The company jumped a record 29 spots on our Top 50 Suppliers list between…
