commonsku, Toronto, recently boosted its team adding two new positions to its growing roster of salespeople. Brandon Samuel is commonsku’s newest account manager, and will focus on creating strategic relationships with distributor customers. Prior to joining commonsku, Samuel spent four years as an account executive with Red Hot Promotions, based out of Newport, Ky. “Brandon’s…
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Cold and flu season can have you feeling run down. But life doesn’t stop! You still have work, school and a million other responsibilities that can’t be avoided. We get it. Being under the weather sucks. What do you do when you strongly suspect Sharon from one-desk-over doesn’t just have allergies?…
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Fairware Inc., based in Vancouver, Canada, and San Francisco, Calif., has joined Reciprocity Road, an alliance of nine distributors located across the U.S and now Canada comprising approximately $220 million in spend…
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“Vision 2020 — The Future Is Now” is the theme for the third annual Michigan Leadership Conference, presented by the Michigan Promotional Professionals Association (MiPPA) on April 20 and 21. The two-day conference brings the power of a national conference to the regional community. The conference will be held at the Inn at Harbor Shores on Lake Michigan…
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Formerly announced to an estimated 14,000 attendees at Impressions Expo in Long Beach, Calif., the largest trade show for the screen printing and apparel industries in the U.S., ROQ.US is expanding what’s considered possible within the decorated apparel field…
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After a successful career running his printing company, Scott Cappel was ready to retire. Then, on a whim, he went to PPAI Expo, and was so blown away by the industry he decided to jump in as a promo distributor. Scott told us why he made the switch, what he’s learned so far and more. Plus, Sean and Brendan discuss old, obsolete tech and remember the mythical iPod Sock…
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AIA Corporation announced that St. Louis-based Universal Creative Concepts (UCC) has joined its community of nearly 300 independent distributors. This is the third new distributor to join AIA in 2020. With more than 31 years in the promotional products industry, UCC prides itself on providing personal service and going the extra mile to…
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Quality Certification Alliance, Chicago, has awarded QCA Accreditation to Foamworx, Calais, Maine. QCA Accredited companies endorse a self-certification, complete a rigorous self-assessment, and then submit their headquarters and their supply base to multiple third-party audits. The QCA board uses a scorecard representing the performance of the applicant and its supply chain on the third-party audits…
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Royal Apparel, Hauppage, N.Y., announced that it will maintain its 2019 prices through June 30, 2020. Even though raw material costs have increased, the company has implemented a new ERP system and upgraded its cutting facility, which has improved efficiencies.
Read MoreThere is a major problem in the promotional world. It’s one we’re too quick to ignore, too comfortable minimizing as part-of-the-biz, and one that is costing us money. That problem is professional isolation. You read industry publications, you’ve developed expertise that pays off, and you budget for trade shows—to meet your peers, to find good…
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