I received a call last week from a distributor concerned about an order she had recently shipped through an industry supplier for a children's event.
Of all the costs that go into making a promotional product, quality costs are often the hardest to appreciate.
It seems like every week I read an article lamenting the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) and the efforts underway in Congress to roll back some of the provisions of this law.
Raise your hand if you like negative campaign ads. No hands? I'm not surprised.
I know, I know. Boring technical jargon. It's all true. But unless you have someone else in your company to take care of this for you, you can't afford not to know how to read a test report.
Think you know a toy when you see one? We should soon find out if the Consumer Product Safety Commission agrees with you.
It isn't hard to imagine how the call would go.
More and more suppliers are investing significant time and effort to developing compliance programs. Can these comprehensive plans guarantee that all these suppliers' products are 100 percent safe and compliant? I regularly hear these questions from end-buyers and distributors alike.
It was one of our hottest selling bags and we were flat out-of-stock. At least a dozen backorders had already piled up by the time the container with 150,000 new pieces finally arrived at our receiving dock.
Some new product safety concerns that may become issues in the future, as well some discussion on the biggest safety problem facing the industry today.
