Terry Town, San Diego, has announced the hiring of McGovern Marketing, made up of Kurt and Kyle McGovern, to represent the company in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. “Kurt and Kyle have deep experience in the states they represent, and we’re thrilled to now have the highest level of professional coverage in…
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NC Chocolate Manufacturing LLC (NCCM), parent company of Chocolate Inn/Taylor & Grant, acquired the assets of Lanco, Ronkonkoma, N.Y. The acquisition, which is NCCM’s sixth in the promotional products industry and its largest to date, was finalized on Dec. 8. “We are excited to announce the acquisition of Lanco,” Lance Stier, managing member of NCCM,…
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For the collection, Columbia made only 1,980 copies of each jacket (in reference to the film’s year of release), which sold out in mere minutes online. Fans also camped out at stores for a chance to buy one of the limited copies that made it to a select number of Columbia locations…
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Being a bit of an Anglophile, I have come to include simply saying the names of certain English boroughs, cities and districts among my means to appreciate the overall dignity and identity of the across-the-pond population. Due to my allegiance to music and literature, Liverpool (The Beatles), Manchester (Oasis) and Stratford-upon-Avon (William Shakespeare) stand out,…
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Starline Inc., Grand Island, N.Y., announced the addition of Brian Porter to its senior management team as senior vice president of sales and marketing. Porter brings with him more than 20 years of promotional products experience to the Starline family, and remains an active volunteer in the industry. He most recently served as vice president…
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Question: When is the best time to buy QuickBooks Premier 2018? Answer: Premier 2018 was released in September 2017. So far, the reports are good. It works well, and bugs have been few. However, conventional QuickBooks wisdom is to wait until January to avoid as many of the inevitable early glitches, updates and fixes as…
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Pantone has officially announced its Color of the Year for 2018: Ultra Violet. Every year, Pantone draws from the cultural zeitgeist to choose a specific hue that it feels embodies the state of the world going into a new year. For 2018, Pantone selected a color that “suggests the mysteries of the cosmos, the intrigue…
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Yesterday, Prime Line and alphabroder announced their plans to merge the two companies, creating options for distributors with both hard goods on the Prime Line side and soft goods on alphabroder’s.…
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Since his first full Major League Baseball season in 2012—a campaign that yielded the Rookie of the Year Award, an All-Star selection, a Silver Slugger honor and a second-place Most Valuable Player finish, I have proudly ridden…
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Certain circumstances can sometimes make a hard sell of the “’Tis the season to be jolly” sentiment, but no matter what is befalling them personally as fall says farewell and winter arrives, college football fans will laud the stretch between Dec. 16 and Jan. 8 as a temporary cure for their concerns. That span represents…
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