Promo Products
June 28, 2016 at 6:52 pm
Chris Morrissey, president of Fort Collins, Colorado-based Proforma Big Dog Branding has received one to two emails a day from prospective customers asking for information on products for about the last eight months. For any distributor, that doesn't seem out of the ordinary. If anything, that's great news. Business is booming, right? Not necessarily. Morrissey,…
June 28, 2016 at 5:39 pm
Promotional Products Education Foundation (PPEF), Irving, Texas, a nonprofit founded to recognize and encourage scholastic excellence and academic performance among promotional products industry employees and their children, today announced 102 winners of $150,000 in academic scholarships. PPEF has awarded more than $1.56 million in financial assistance to 926 recipients since 1989. The organization awarded scholarships…
June 27, 2016 at 6:08 pm
It pays to go the extra mile. Regardless of the industry, customers and peers appreciate when someone makes that extra effort to create or provide something special. Steve Bocher, CAS, owner of Catch…
June 27, 2016 at 5:57 pm
Just less than a week after voters shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union, we're starting to see economic ripples all across the world. Though U.K. will feel the majority of the impact from the referendum, folks in the U.S. still will see some changes as…
June 27, 2016 at 3:07 pm
Water is the most abundant substance on earth and one of the most important pieces of our survival. Everybody already knows that—you drink your water, coffee or soda every day, and probably from your favorite piece of drinkware. There’s a lot more to drinkware than just something to hold your daily caffeine injection. At Debco,…
June 24, 2016 at 6:03 pm
BIC Graphic, Clearwater, Fla., recently won an American Inhouse Design Award from Graphic Design USA, New York City, in the point-of-purchase, displays and signs category for the Love My BIC campaign conducted at the PPAI Expo in Las Vegas in January. The BIC Graphic entry consisted of the large-format graphics, trade show display, sample display, and…
June 24, 2016 at 5:26 pm
Promo Marketing’s Video Battle pits two industry videos against each other for the chance at the ultimate bragging right: Being declared our readership’s absolute favorite. (Next up: Happy Quebec National Day to all of nos amis up North! Célébrer!) Last week, Bizee Body Promotions won, and now will face off against Maple Ridge Farms. The winner will…
June 24, 2016 at 2:14 pm
Barnes & Noble Education, Basking Ridge, N.J., announced yesterday that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of Promoversity, a Crystal Lake, Illinois-based custom merchandise supplier and e-commerce business that works with the collegiate bookstore business and its customers. This acquisition allows Barnes & Noble College, a division of Barnes & Noble Education, to…
June 23, 2016 at 6:50 pm
You went to the grocery store with a list of exactly what you needed and you stuck to it. That is until you got to the checkout line and the cardboard display for the chocolate bars beckoned you like a moth to a…
June 23, 2016 at 6:33 pm
Yesterday, AIA Corporation announced that its president and CEO, David Woods, planned to retire. We spoke with Woods about his time at the helm at AIA Corporation, how he's adapted to changes over the last two decades, what he…
