From football jerseys to track jackets, college team pajama pants to basketball shorts, fan and sports apparel is a huge part of the promotional products market.
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CPSC Votes to Require Third-party Testing for Children’s Products
Late last week, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) passed a series of regulations finalizing the requirements for testing children’s products. The CPSC voted 3-2 to require independent, third-party product testing for manufacturers, importers and private labelers of products “designed or intended primarily for children 12 years of age or younger.”
Read MoreObama Signs Trade Agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama
President Barack Obama signed three free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama on Friday. The deals are the largest free trade measure passed since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993, and bring the number of countries that have free trade agreements with America to 20.
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There are a million things about BPA you don’t need to know, but one thing you do.
Read MoreCPSC Product Safety Database Faces First Lawsuit
Seven months into its existence, the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s product safety database has been presented with its first legal challenge. An anonymous manufacturer in Maryland, listed as “Company Doe” in the lawsuit, has filed a motion to prevent SaferProducts.gov from publishing a complaint about one of its products.
Read MoreBIC Group Releases 9 Month Sales Figures
The BIC Group today reported its nine-month results for 2011. For the period ended in September, the company posted a 3.8 percent net sales increase on a comparative basis. Net income was up 14.3 percent at 183.9 million euros.
Read MorePoll: Are You Still Feeling The Recession? One Third of Businesses Say Yes
More than one third of small-business owners believe the country is still in a recession, according to survey by American Express OPEN, the small business services section of the financial corporation.
Read MoreCalifornia Supply Chain Disclosure Deadline Approaching
The deadline to comply with the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010 is less than three months away. The bill, which requires retail and manufacturing companies that do business in California to publicly disclose their efforts to eliminate slavery and human trafficking, has a compliance deadline of January 1, 2012.
Read MoreWhat Do Your Sales Say to You?
A recent press release said that pen sales are increasing in the promotional products industry. What does this say about the current climate, and what can we learn from it?
Read MoreObama Signs First Major Patent Law Change in a Generation
President Obama signed the bipartisan Leahy-Smith America Invents Act on Sept. 16, enabling the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to set its own fees, hire more patent examiners and decrease the time it takes for a patent to be issued after filing.
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