Promo Products

What do you do when you're finished with your chewing gum? Hopefully, you don't just spit it out on the street or stick it under a table like an animal. Ideally, you'd find a proper receptacle for it. Until recently, the immediate choice would be a trash can, but thanks to a U.K. designer, there…

HUB Promotional Group multi-line reprepresentative (MLR) Matt Carter with Flanagan & Associates was named MLR of the Year by the Georgia Association of Promotional Products Professionals (GAPPP). The award was given at the GAPPP Expo at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta last month. This is the second time Carter…

When a company has plied its trade for a considerable amount of time, it might find difficult the task of taking on a novel business approach no matter what the competition is doing. Having achieved global renown, McDonald’s, which dates back to 1940, could simply say it has engaged in enough culinary experimentation to remain…

Ariel Premium Supply, St. Louis, announced the launch of an entirely new website at www.arielpremium.com. The new site features greatly enhanced product presentation, easier navigation, a more robust search tool, a Design Lab for users to create their own flyers (powered by ZOOMcatalog) and an educational Learning Lab to share detailed product knowledge. For more…

As a lifelong resident of Philadelphia, this nearly 39-year-old scribe, thanks to SEPTA, knows all about the frustration that relying on public transportation can foster. Courtesy of the entity’s Center City-based store, though, I often put aside my irritation and revel when my son finds a few branded toys, whose purchase serves as a mini…

The Arizona Diamondbacks are bringing back the golf cart formerly used to bring pitchers to the mound, and using it as a promotional product.

When I was coming of age, I developed an obsession with pizza, but I never gravitated toward the pies from Pizza Hut, whose appearance, texture and taste led me to dub the chain “Grease-a Hut.” Fast forward a few…

3M, Minneapolis, announced yesterday that CEO Inge Thulin will move to a newly created position—executive chairman—and will be replaced by current chief operating officer Michael Roman. Roman has been with 3M for 30 years, according to the Post and Courier, and had led the company's Industrial Business Group (the company's largest group) as chief strategy…

“Augmented reality will be the next big thing for the promotional products industry,” according to the new issue of Prime Line’s #What’s Trending Now quarterly trends report, which can be viewed here. With sales of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality…

Was your invitation to this year's Academy Awards lost in the mail like ours were? Bummer, right? We had our tuxes ready for Hollywood's biggest night, but we were mostly excited about those sweet,…