Sonoma Promotional Solutions announced the hiring of Nickolai Mathison to the position of general manager/senior vice president of sales. A 20-year sales and marketing veteran, Nickolai brings a wealth of broad experience to the SPS team, including leadership positions with On Board Experiential Marketing, Omnicom’s Radiate Group, and Olympic Games marketer SportsMark Management Group.
Read MoreBrown & Bigelow, the top 50 distributor headquartered in St. Paul, Minn., expanded its presence in the Florida market with the acquisition of Jacksonville Specialty Advertising (JSA Promos) of Jacksonville, Fla.
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The Miracles of Mitch Foundation, founded by Steve Chepokas, CEO of Chanhassen, Minnesota-based promotional products distributor JETSET Promotions, is raising money through the crowd funding website IndieGoGo. Currently, the foundation is not able to meet all of the requests from families for things such as help with rent or mortgage payments, costs related to transportation and expenses related to end of life or bereavement care.
Read MoreSafeguard, a top 50 distributor and member of Deluxe Corp. based in Dallas, has acquired Idaho Business Forms Inc. (IDF) of Boise, Idaho. Terms of the acquisition were not announced.
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Michael Young, CDC, estimator for The Flesh Company, passed away from a heart attack on August 25 in Parsons, Kan. Young had been an employee of the company for nearly 36 years, starting in the plate department before moving into sales. He had earned his CFC and CDC accreditations serving as one of the company’s key document developers.
Read MoreAmericana Sportswear announced its third annual Open House, scheduled for Friday, October 25, 2013 at its warehouse facility in Santa Fe Springs, Calif.
Read MoreThe Riverside Company, former owner of top-50 distributor Adventures in Advertising (AIA), reported today that it has sold the company to McNally Capital. Click through for the full press release from The Riverside Company.
Read MoreDelta Apparel Inc. recently reported that net sales for the fiscal year ended June 29, 2013 increased to $490.5 million from $489.9 million in fiscal 2012, marking the company’s tenth consecutive year of record sales. Net income for fiscal 2013 was $9.2 million, or $1.08 per diluted share, compared with a net loss in fiscal 2012 of $2.4 million, or $0.29 loss per diluted share. The net loss in fiscal 2012 was primarily due to the previously disclosed 2012 second quarter inventory markdown in the company’s basics segment, which was necessitated by unprecedented, record-high cotton costs.
Read MoreSweda Company LLC recently announced the hiring of Tina Jameson-Brown as the company’s new independent regional sales representative for North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
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Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), the world’s largest and oldest international not-for-profit promotional products association, recently announced that Kevin Flynn, MAS, director of sales for TBK Promotions Inc., based in Chicago, and Larry D. Krause, MAS, president of LDK Marketing Services Inc., headquartered in Dallas, as the 2013 PPAI RAC Volunteer of the Year award recipients. Flynn and Krause will be formally honored at the 2013 RAC Leadership Development Workshop opening night reception on September 25, 2013 in Grapevine, Texas.
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