Promo Products

Grossman Marketing Group Acquires Logos In Print
January 19, 2018 at 1:49 pm

Grossman Marketing Group, Somerville, Mass., a 108-year-old, fourth-generation, promotional products and print company, has acquired Logos in Print, a promotional products distributor headquartered in New York. The new acquisition is the fourth in the past four years, fueling Grossman’s full-service marketing operations and client base in the Northeast. The acquisition of Logos in Print comes…

Live From Las Vegas: Day Two at PPAI Expo
January 17, 2018 at 4:39 pm

We have all heard that what happens in Vegas should stay in the lauded resort city, but when it comes to the PPAI Expo, keeping quiet about the proceedings is akin to being a gazillionaire and not sharing a penny. Simply put, the gathering has so many enriching experiences that "mum" is definitely not the…

PPAI Reaches 15,000th Member Milestone
January 16, 2018 at 6:59 pm

Promotional Products Association International, Irving, Texas, today announced that the association kicked off 2018 with more than 15,000 members. The announcement came during PPAI Expo, the association's annual trade show held in Las Vegas, Jan. 14 to 18. The 15,000th member, Stephanie Brown, president of Ox & Pine, a supplier based in McKinney, Texas, was…

Giving Them Their Filling: Amazon Offering Merch-Inclusive Oreo Cookie Club Subscription Box
January 15, 2018 at 12:15 pm

In its commercial quest to conquer the cosmos, Amazon has amazed many consumers and irked its fair share of competitors. While the latter set will surely continue to attempt to counter the company’s dominion in 2018, the former group figures to rejoice as founder/chairman/CEO Jeff Bezos and his hires conceive more means to enhance customer…

YETI Releases Folding Chair, Creates Further Competition in Outdoor Market
January 12, 2018 at 11:37 am

Now that we've dug through YETI Coolers' plentiful lawsuits, the latest being against Walmart again, thanks to the latter's refusal to fulfill the obligations of the first lawsuit, we can look some other big news over in YETI land. Are you sitting down for this? (This is a great joke that you'll get in a second,…

Ikea Print Ad Includes Pregnancy Test (Like, The Ones You Pee On)
January 11, 2018 at 2:42 pm

Ikea's new print ad in Sweden includes a pregnancy test where women can, well, you know how home pregnancy tests work… "Peeing on this ad may change your life," the ad says. Not only will the print ad, which appears in women's magazine Amelia, provide life changing information, there is still a pecuniary incentive for…

Scrunchies Are 'Hair Clouds' Now, and They're Cool and Expensive
January 11, 2018 at 2:16 pm

You know scrunchies? Of course you do. Everyone knows scrunchies, whether or not they actually have hair plentiful enough to necessitate scrunchies. You know hair clouds? No? I bet you do, but you don't know it. Because it turns out, hair clouds are just a clever rebranding of "scrunchies." What you also might not know…

U.K. Microbead Ban Goes Into Effect
January 10, 2018 at 2:41 pm

As of yesterday, cosmetics and personal care items in the U.K. can no longer include plastic microbeads. This ban only covers manufacturing at the time, but sale of products that include microbeads will take effect in July, according to The Guardian. The reasoning behind this is to prevent the plastic microbeads from making their way…

YETI Sues Walmart Again, Proving It Is Not Messing Around
January 10, 2018 at 2:23 pm

If you thought the trend of YETI Coolers suing other companies was over, buckle up, because we've got a real clash of the retail titans here. We're talking two litigious household names duking it out in the court of, well, law. Remember when YETI sued Walmart for selling beverage insulators that were too similar to…

Debco Appoints the Abednego Agency to British Columbia, Washington
January 9, 2018 at 2:41 pm

  Debco, Concord, Ontario, announced the appointment of Kevin Hill’s Abednego Agency as the company’s official representation for the province of British Columbia and Washington State, effective immediately. “I am very honored and excited to be joining the Debco team," Hill said. "I can honestly say, I have never…