SanMar, Issaquah, Wash., announced its launch of PromoStandards integration, an industry organization composed of distributors and suppliers focused on helping to improve technology’s consistency for more efficient relationships. SanMar customers, including AIA Corporation, Geiger, HALO Branded Solutions, commonsku and Facilis Group, currently are working with SanMar to take advantage of its PromoStandards Inventory Integration. “Our goal is…
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iClick, Seattle, announced that Melinda Marr will represent the tech supplier as a regional sales manager for the Midwest territory. This territory includes North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. Marr, a 20-year veteran in the promotional…
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Aprons Etc., a textile promotional products supplier, launched a new product line in 2016—Fast and Free. The line provides five-day production to in-hand delivery in the U.S. or Canada with free shipping. This upgraded delivery service and new standard production applies to select styles of table covers and flags in the 2016 event display category. For…
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Goldstar, San Diego, announced the hiring of Lauren Balazs as Southwest regional sales manager. Based in Austin, Texas, Balazs will cover Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Colorado and New Mexico. She has four years of industry experience on both the distributor and supplier sides of the business. “We are excited to have Lauren join Goldstar,” said Howard…
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Batavia, Ohio-based Kaeser and Blair has just completed a total conversion of its lighting systems to L.E.D. lights. The conversion involved more than 350 individual lighting fixtures containing 1,200 individual lighting instruments. By replacing four 4’ fluorescent tubes with three 4’ L.E.D. devices in each ceiling fixture, the company predicts it will reduce electrical consumption by two-thirds.…
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Michael and Anita Emoff, owners of Shumsky Promotional, Dayton, Ohio, recently established a scholarship fund through Promotional Products Education Foundation (PPEF) in the name of Michael’s mother, Jayne Emoff Miller. Miller was a second generation owner of Shumsky Promotional, one of the early diversity…
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The Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) Expo, held Jan. 10 to 14, brought more than 11,762 promotional professionals from 4,365 companies together to learn, network and engage at the five-day event in Las Vegas. The PPAI Expo featured more than 100 education and networking events, and 1,324 exhibiting supplier companies in 3,186 booths presenting hundreds of…
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Polyconcept North America (PCNA), a Pittsburgh-based promotional products supplier, announced the addition of Brittany Smith to the hard goods field sales team, effective immediately. Smith, based in Houston, Texas, will act as field sales manager in the South Texas and Louisiana territories. Smith joined PCNA most recently from Hirsch Gift Inc., Houston, where she was the…
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BIC Graphic, Clearwater, Fla., announced that several of its employees received honors from promotional products industry regional associations. The recipients are as follows: Matt Storlien for Supplier Representative of the Year from Houston Promotional Products Association Harold Wood for Supplier…
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Following the acquisition of Toronto-based Superex’s existing promotions division inventory, Justin Case, Markham, Ontario, has announced the following appointments of new multi-line sales representatives in the U.S.: BRB Group for Midwest U.S. Harding Associates for Southwest U.S. Northeast Marketing for Northeast U.S. “We are so excited to present our expanded product lineup and be able to…
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