Moderated by ASI’s Michele Bell, this PromoAlliance webinar featured a deep-dive discussion with four mid-size distributors from the U.S., U.K. and EU, covering everything from industry sales trends to hot products.
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Logomark announced a partnership with Colorado-based RovR Products, whose flagship items are wheeled coolers.
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Delta Apparel closed the print-on-demand, direct-to-garment operation on June 13, with 115 employees reportedly losing their jobs.
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The Fed last week indicated that it’s eyeing only one interest rate cut this year, down from three. Executives weigh in on what that means for the promo industry.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Adobe and two of its executives, saying the maker of Creative Cloud is deceiving consumers by hiding hefty termination fees and strategically putting up roadblocks that make canceling a subscription difficult. The FTC says the actions of the software maker, David Wadhwani, president of the firm’s digital media…
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Counselor Top 40 supplier Delta Apparel (asi/49172) is suspending operations at its manufacturing plant in Honduras, a move that will reportedly affect 2,413 employees. The shutdown, which will last at least 120 days, is a result of ongoing liquidity challenges that have come amid a time of plummeting sales, steep loses, and high-profile executive departures that reportedly have…
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The case drew attention among marketers in promo and beyond due to claims – had they been substantiated – that could have affected sustainability narratives tied to certain products, including apparel.
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Creative play, a team-building scavenger hunt and a working lab for generating ideas for enhancements to the firm’s promo software platform were featured at the event.
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The craft beer industry may be at an inflection point, and in that lies potential opportunity for promotional product distributors. Craft beer brewers have been one of America’s great small-business success stories of recent decades. Thousands of independent breweries have sprouted nationwide, creating jobs under local ownership and suds-style diversity in a marketplace once completely…
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The International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), a union representing tens of thousands of port workers along the East and Gulf Coasts of the United States, suspended negotiations on a new contract for its members on Monday, June 10, amid outcry over what it says is job-killing automation at the docks.
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