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2010APR
 Apparel
T-Shirts Aplenty
By: Audrey Sellers Issue: 2010APR
The classic t-shirt comes in a flurry of styles that fit any promotion.
T-shirts have long been a staple in the world of promotional apparel, but there’s nothing conventional about this year’s crop of tees...Full Article
Make A Statement With T-Shirts
By: Brad White Issue: 2010APR
The trend in t-shirt marketing is very similar to the trend in social media marketing. The goal is to increase your visibility by encouraging your primary audience to accept your brand and then be willing to endorse it publicly...Full Article
Chair's Letter
Is The U.S. On A Slow Boat To China (While The Rest Of The World Is On A Hydrofoil)?
By: Scott E. Siegel, MAS Issue: 2010APR
Even though most economists agree that the federal bailout moved the United States away from the brink of an economic cataclysm, many Americans still feel the effort was a waste of money...Full Article
Close Up
Close Up: Missy Kilpatrick, CAS
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Missy Kilpatrick, CAS, has been involved in advertising and marketing from an early age: She was the Johnson & Johnson baby for television and print ads in the 1960s...Full Article
Datebook
Datebook
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
APRIL 2010
April 1
TRASA Expo
Three Rivers Advertising Specialty Association
Mars, Pennsylvania
www.trasa.net
April 12-16...Full Article
Editor's Picks
Make A Lasting Impression With Housewares
By: Margit Fawbush Issue: 2010APR
The kitchen is the heart of the home. Dream kitchens drive the remodeling industry thanks to HGTV and cooking now qualifies as a hobby rather than a necessity...Full Article
The Kitchen Is King
By: Audrey Sellers Issue: 2010APR
It’s where meals are enjoyed and families congregate—and it’s where your clients need to have a presence with customized culinary products...Full Article
Factory Floor
Thinking Globally
By: Tama Swan Issue: 2010APR
Replogle Globes manufactures more than 100 different globe styles.
See how Replogle Globes creates beautiful and educational representations of Earth.
Globes produced by Broadview, Illinois-based supplier Replogle Globes, Inc...Full Article
Fast Forward
3-D Is Coming At You
By: Tama Swan Issue: 2010APR
The president and first lady, along with family and friends, wore 3-D glasses made by American Paper Optics during the 2009 Super Bowl...Full Article
Straight To The Source
By: Tama Swan Issue: 2010APR
A distributor committed to ethical sourcing shares how she helps eco-conscious brands stay true to their cause.
After...Full Article
Good Reads
By: Tama Swan Issue: 2010APR
The Book: Good In A Room: How to Sell Yourself (And Your Ideas) and Win Over Any Audience by Stephanie Palmer; Broadway Business, March 2008
Recommended By: Sherri C...Full Article
Seen And Heard
By: Tama Swan Issue: 2010APR
Happenings In The Industry And Beyond
Mistaken Identity
Place settings were decked out with complementary promotional products at a luncheon held earlier this year by Inforum, a Michigan society for female professionals...Full Article
Features
Compliance Control
By: Lisa Horn, CAS Issue: 2010APR
As an industry, we must take control over the products distributed to the public. End users’ safety is top-priority, and our very existence as a viable marketing tool depends on our industry’s ability to deliver safe products...Full Article
Mind The Talent Gap
By: Cassandra Johnson Issue: 2010APR
Have you ever ridden a London subway? As the train pulls into the station, the conductor announces, “Mind the gap. Mind the gap.” In other words, avoid that black gap between the train and the platform...Full Article
Feedback
Feedback
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Winner Of 24 PPAI Pyramid Awards Voices Concern
I agree with the assessment made by Pyramid Award winner Lori Littlepage, president of Ice Blue Advertising, of the negative changes in PPAI’s awards competition...Full Article
Inside PPAI
FedEx Exec To Keynote At PPAI Women’s Leadership Conference
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Laurie A. Tucker, senior vice president of corporate marketing for FedEx Services, will serve as the keynote speaker at PPAI’s sixth annual Women’s Leadership Conference, July 26-29 at the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Las Colinas, Texas...Full Article
RAC Board Holds Strategic Planning Powwow
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
PPAI’s Regional Association Council (RAC) board met February 19-21 at PPAI Headquarters in Irving, Texas, for a strategic planning...Full Article
PPAI To Offer Social Media Certificate Program To Industry
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Don't know your Twitter from your Flickr? For those in the industry who want to understand and use social media in their marketing efforts, PPAI will offer the first certified webinar series, PPAI Social Media LaunchPad, beginning this spring...Full Article
PPAI Wins Media Contest Award
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
PPAI won a silver award at the Association Trends 2009 All-Media contest for its Speaker in a Box program. Those who created the...Full Article
Mary Harris-Dieter Promoted To PPAI Manager Of Certification And Curriculum Development
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Mary Harris-Dieter has been named PPAI's new manager of certification and curriculum development. Harris-Dieter has been with PPAI for more than a year as manager of professional development for e-learning...Full Article
PPB Newslink Has A New Editor
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Teresa McUsic has been named the news editor of PPB Newslink. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, McUsic...Full Article
Sixty-Three Professionals Earn MAS/CAS Designation
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
PPAI congratulates the newest groups of promotional products professionals to achieve the Master Advertising Specialist (MAS) and...Full Article
PPPC Convention Draws Strong Attendance
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
The 2010 Annual PPPC National Convention in Toronto, January 22-25, had an “excellent” turnout, according to Ed Ahad, PPPC’s new president and CEO...Full Article
Budgets For Incentives Increase In 2010
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
About one-third of companies will increase their budgets for merchandise/non-cash incentive programs this year, according to a Pulse survey released by the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF) in New York...Full Article
Norwood To Consolidate Manufacturing Operations
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Indianapolis, Indiana-based supplier Norwood Promotional Products (UPIC: NORWOOD), a subsidiary of BIC Graphic USA (UPIC: BIC), is...Full Article
Corvest SPV Announces Sale Of Company, Layoffs
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Largo, Florida-based multimillion dollar Corvest SPV, parent company of Adva-Lite (UPIC: Advalite), Toppers (UPIC: TOPPERS) and It’s All Greek To Me (UPIC: GREEK), plans to lay off 201 employees by April 17...Full Article
Bay State Specialty Acquires Pressalite
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Supplier Bay State Specialty Co. (UPIC: BAYSTATE) based in Lakeville, Massachusetts, has acquired Pressalite (UPIC: PRESLITE) located in West Chicago, Illinois, in an asset purchase...Full Article
Pacific Coast Golf Partners With The Hunt Group
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Torrance, California-based supplier Pacific Coast Golf (UPIC: PCGLINE) has entered into a partnership agreement with The Hunt Group...Full Article
In Memoriam: Natalie Chase
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Natalie Chase, considered by many to be the quintessential 'West Coast rep,' and one of the original industry marketers, died January 21 after a prolonged battle with cancer...Full Article
Stincor Promotional Specialties Acquires ELK Corporate Gifts
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Toronto, Ontario-based distributor Stincor Van Smith Marketing (UPIC: stincor) has acquired ELK Corporate Gifts (UPIC: elkcorp), also of Toronto, for an undisclosed amount...Full Article
Incentive Research Foundation Names New President, Moves To St. Louis
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Melissa Van Dyke has been named president of the Incentive Research Foundation (IRF). She succeeds Frank Katusak, who is leaving the IRF at the end of March...Full Article
Supplier Ash City Names New COO
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Brent Rebus has joined Richmond Hills, Ontario-based supplier Ash City (UPIC: ASH0001) as chief operating officer. Previously Rebus was president of StorageTek Canada...Full Article
Marketing
I’ve Signed Up On LinkedIn. What’s Next?
By: Ted Janusz Issue: 2010APR
Whether you want to find fresh ideas, a new job, more customers or just network to expand your universe, you’ll find it at LinkedIn.com.
Chances are good that by now you’ve at least dipped your toe into the swirl at social networking sites...Full Article
Newslink Features
Breaking News: Jason Miller Named President Of Corvest
Issue: 2010APR
Jason Miller has been named president of Largo, Florida, supplier Corvest (UPIC: PARKP011) today effective immediately.
Miller...Full Article
New Corvest President Plans To Restore Market Share
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Jason Miller, who was named president of Largo, Florida, supplier Corvest (UPIC: PARKP011) on Monday, says that with new owners in...Full Article
BDA Named Official Promotional Licensee For NASCAR
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Woodville, Washington, distributor Bensussen Deutsch & Associates Inc. (BDA) (UPIC: BENS0002) has been designated as an official promotional licensee for NASCAR...Full Article
Avaline, Fanda Receive Safe Products Accreditation
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
The Quality Certification Alliance (QCA), an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping companies provide safe...Full Article
St. Regis Crystal Acquires Texas Supplier
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Cheektowaga, New York, supplier St. Regis Crystal (UPIC: stregis) has acquired Waxahachie, Texas, supplier The Martin Company (UPIC: MART0004)...Full Article
HALO/Lee Wayne Wins Calendar Awards
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Sterling, Illinois, distributor HALO/Lee Wayne Corporation (UPIC: LEEWAYNE) received a series of awards from the Calendar Marketing...Full Article
MiPPA Running Team Links With Leukemia Society
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
The Michigan Promotional Professionals Association (MiPPA) is sponsoring a running team for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS)...Full Article
Council of Medical Specialty Societies Releases Ethic Rules
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) last week released a code for appropriate interaction with companies that includes,...Full Article
Safe Harbor Rule Letters Due May 15
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
PPAI is developing a case to protect the safe harbor rule for those in the promotional products industry who act as independent contractors.
“The...Full Article
Children’s Products Free Webinar Rescheduled
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
A free webinar on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) titled “What Is A Children’s Product?” has been rescheduled to 1 pm CDT on April 29 due to technical difficulties...Full Article
PPAI Launches Social Media Networking Certification Program
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
PPAI is launching a social media networking certification program in a five-part webinar series beginning at 10 am CDT on May 11...Full Article
PPAI Donates Food To Local Charity
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Matt Jack, the community outreach representative for the office of Rep. Kenny Marchant’s (R-Texas), helped PPAI staff deliver 3,804 pounds of food to Irving Cares last Friday...Full Article
Woman Of Achievement Nominations Due May 8
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Nomination forms are due May 8 for PPAI’s Woman of Achievement Award, which recognizes someone who has led the way in the advancement...Full Article
PPAI Best Of Expo 2010 Webinars Start Tomorrow
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
The popular Best of Expo four-part webinar educational program starts tomorrow with a presentation by Becky Blair, MAS, on video marketing...Full Article
R.S. Owens Webinar On Corporate Award Reaches Distributors
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
A free webinar on the return on investment of corporate awards developed by Chicago, Illinois, supplier R.S. Owens & Co., Inc. UPIC: RSOWENS) has been attended by more than 300 distributors since it began in January, the company reports...Full Article
Breaking News: Distributor Sales Drop As Expected In ’09 Amid Rough Economy
Issue: 2010APR
Distributor sales of promotional products tumbled for the second consecutive year, according to PPAI’s just-released 2009 Annual Estimate of Distributor Sales...Full Article
In Memoriam: H. Ted Olson, MAS, PPAI President Emeritus
Issue: 2010APR
H. Ted Olson, MAS, president emeritus of PPAI and legendary industry leader, passed away Wednesday, April 28, after a short illness...Full Article
Wentworth New VP/GM At Norwood
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Quenten Wentworth has joined BIC Advertising & Promotional Products as vice president and general manager responsible for sales,...Full Article
PPAI Best Of Expo 2010 Webinars Return
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
The popular Best of Expo educational program returns with a four-part webinar series beginning April 28. These instructors scored in the top percentile at the PPAI Expo 2010...Full Article
“Love In The Kitchen” Video Download Offered
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
The second release in the PPAI “People Love Promotional Products” free, four-part video series is available for download here or view it on YouTube here...Full Article
Free Children’s Products Webinar On Thursday
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
A free webinar on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) titled “What Is A Children’s Product?” will be held at 1 pm CDT on April 22...Full Article
Contest Brings Arguments In Support Of Independent Contractors
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
“I became an independent contractor in 2005 because I wanted to be my own boss and manage my own time,” writes Jean McGuire, CAS, McGuirePro Marketing and independent contractor for Lewiston, Maine, distributor Geiger (UPIC: geiger)...Full Article
Newton Bowls For Kids’ Sake
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Newton, Iowa, distributor Newton Manufacturing (UPIC: NEWTON) lent its support for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Central Iowa by participating in its Bowl for Kids’ Sake event...Full Article
Ash City Rep Earns MiPPA Award
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
John Gibson, Michigan-based sales representative for Richmond Hill, Ontario, supplier Ash City USA (UPIC: ash0001) was voted the Great Lakes Sales Rep of the Year by members of Michigan Promotional Professionals Association (MiPPA)...Full Article
American Products Opens Community Scenic Calendar Division
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Beaverton, Oregon, supplier American Products Publishing Company (UPIC: statecal) has opened a new division of the company called American Community Calendar Company...Full Article
WorkflowOne Partners With Puerto Rican Distributor
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Dayton, Ohio, distributor WorkflowOne (UPIC: SF00001) has formed a partnership with San Juan, Puerto Rico, distributor ALAS Technical Products (UPIC: ALASP001)...Full Article
Prime Line Sales Cause Expansion Of Customer Service
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Bridgeport, Connecticut, supplier Prime Resource Corp. (UPIC: PRIME) has expanded its customer service department by 20 percent because of the response to its new line of products and its new 24-hour free rush program...Full Article
Lage Joins Gill Studios; Carrico And Timberlake Announce Retirement
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Paul M. Lage, MAS, will return to Shawnee Mission, Kansas, supplier Gill Studios, Inc. (UPIC: gill) in the new role of president and CEO, replacing Tom P...Full Article
PPAI Influenced Lawmakers In New Healthcare Law For $10 de minimis
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Through more than 8,500 letters and countless calls, visits and other points of outreach during the past year, PPAI and its members...Full Article
Disclosure Rules For Gifts To Physicians, Hospitals Start In 2013
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
The new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) creates some new reporting responsibilities for pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers...Full Article
Boundless Network Partners With Identity Austin
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Austin, Texas, distributor Boundless Network (UPIC: Bound784) has reached a strategic partnership agreement with fellow Texas-based distributor Identity Austin (UPIC: Ident256)...Full Article
Hanesbrands Earns EPA Energy Star Partner Of The Year Award
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, supplier Hanesbrands Inc., parent of Hanes Outerbanks (UPIC: hanesob), earned an Energy Star 2010 Partner of the Year award from the U.S...Full Article
In Memoriam
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Connie Millar, CAS, president and one of three founding principals of Tampa, Florida, distributor Abacus Enterprises of Tampa, Inc...Full Article
PPAI Partners With Product Safety Lab To Offer Discount To Members
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
To aid members in their product safety compliance efforts, PPAI has selected Specialized Technology Resources (STR) as an authorized...Full Article
Global Futurist Rohit Talwar To Keynote At PPAI’s North American Leadership Conference
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Rohit Talwar, author of Designing Your Future, will be the keynote speaker at PPAI’s North American Leadership Conference (NALC) to be held August 29-31 at the Four Seasons Hotel in St...Full Article
Donate Your Lunch Money To PPEF
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
The Promotional Products Education Foundation (PPEF) is asking industry members to donate their lunch money on Earth Day, April 22...Full Article
PPAI Annual Sales Volume Survey Deadline Extended To April 20
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Distributors now have until April 20 to participate in PPAI’s Annual Sales Volume Survey. Complete the survey online at www.salesvolumesurvey.com...Full Article
PPAI University’s Fast Track Discounted This Month For Members
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
April’s PPAI Member Advantage is a cost break on PPAI University’s Fast Track, an online immersion program adapted from David Blaise’s,...Full Article
Amazon.com Leaving Incentives Industry
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Amazon.com gave partner companies 45-days notice last week that it will be leaving the corporate rewards merchandise fulfillment industry as reported last Friday in a PPB Newslink Breaking News Alert last Friday...Full Article
Floods Temporarily Close Companies In New England
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Torrential floods in Massachusetts and Rhode Island on March 30 caused two promotional products suppliers in the area to temporarily close...Full Article
Logistix Reports 2009 Profit
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Last year’s dismal sales didn’t affect every promotional products company. EMAK Worldwide, Inc., a Los Angeles, California-based...Full Article
iPROMOTEu Reaches 500 Affiliate Milestone
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Eighteen promotional products distributors affiliated with Wayland, Massachusetts, distributor iPROMOTEu (UPIC: IPRO0320) in March...Full Article
Dunk Fest Winners Announced
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
The overall winner of Dunk Fest 2010 was Melissa Martin, accounts receivable coordinator for Wayland, Massachusetts, distributor...Full Article
Leed's, Bullet Parent Names New CEO
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Cees Martens has been named the new chief executive officer of the Dutch import company, PF Concept International. He previously...Full Article
Webinar To Discuss Children’s Products
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
A free webinar on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) titled “What Is A Children’s Product” will be held at 1 pm CDT on April 22...Full Article
Senate Expected To Vote On BPA Ban
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
The Senate is expected to vote soon on a bill that would ban the commonly used chemical Biphenol A (BPA). The Ban Poisonous Additives Act, sponsored by Sens...Full Article
Bill Prohibiting Gifts To Healthcare Providers Pending In Connecticut
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
A bill pending in the Connecticut State Senate would prohibit the distribution of certain gifts from pharmaceutical and medical device companies to healthcare providers...Full Article
PPAI Best Of Expo 2010 Webinars Planned
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
PPAI has scheduled the return of the popular Best of Expo educational program with a four-part webinar series beginning April 28...Full Article
Senator Celebrates 90-Year Anniversary
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
Dallas, Texas, supplier Senator Writing Instruments (UPIC: SENATOR) is celebrating its 90th anniversary today. Friedrich and Georg Merz founded the company with Justus Krell in 1920, starting with the production of quills and fountain pens...Full Article
Pioneer Produces World Balloon Convention
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
A sampling of balloon creations on display at the World Balloon Convention last week in Dallas.
Nearly 600 of...Full Article
Online Exclusives
Culinary Festival Bustles With Logoed Gifts
By: Audrey Sellers Issue: 2010APR
The BB&T Charleston Wine + Food Festival is four days of food- and wine-fueled revelry, and Grand Ideas, Inc. (UPIC: Grand213) is at the heart of it all...Full Article
People News
People News
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
DISTRIBUTOR NEW HIRES
Best Promotions, Inc. (UPIC: BEST)—Leslie Shepherd, account executive; Valerie Bennington, executive assistant;...Full Article
President's Perspective
Your Independence Is Being Challenged
By: Steve Slagle Issue: 2010APR
This isn’t a column about political philosophy, a political party or even personal freedoms. It is about professional independence...Full Article
Promotions
Making A Splash
By: Audrey Sellers Issue: 2010APR
One Houston company turns to a paint-can promotion to energize its annual shrimp boil.
April 15: For most, it’s a last chance to make the year’s tax deadline...Full Article
It’s A Numbers Game
By: Tina Berres Filipski Issue: 2010APR
Online distributor raises eyebrows—and sales—with its proven model.
While companies in other industries have found phenomenal...Full Article
Question
Ask And You Shall Receive
By: Staff Issue: 2010APR
A Distributor Asks:
Is it a good idea to send out a company report card to clients and ask for their feedback? I’d like to know...Full Article
Sales
Flash Back
By: Lynn Taylor Issue: 2010APR
Does selling technology products scare you? Learn about the fastest-growing product sector and what flash memory has to do with it.
With...Full Article
Snapshots
iPROMOTEu Draws Crowd Of 200+ To Thank-You Reception
By: Audrey Sellers Issue: 2010APR
The Beatles, Ed Sullivan and Buddy Holly impersonators plus sparkling Las Vegas showgirls created a festive environment for...Full Article
ActNow Media Sponsors Youth Golf Event
By: Audrey Sellers Issue: 2010APR
Junior golfers in Georgia have anticipated it for five years: the JR Scramble, a charity tournament hosted by ActNow Media, Inc...Full Article
Brown & Bigelow Employees Brave Icy Water To Raise Money
By: Audrey Sellers Issue: 2010APR
When water freezes over in White Bear Lake, Minnesota, it means the Polar Bear Plunge is just around the corner. Event organizers...Full Article
Washington Report
April Washington Report
By: John Satagaj Issue: 2010APR
Independent Contractors
In January, we reported that Senator John Kerry (D-MA) introduced S. 2882, the Taxpayer Responsibility, Accountability, and Consistency Act...Full Article
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