Health Care & Safety
January 22, 2016 at 7:34 pm
As the season’s first significant snow fall makes its way up the Northeast U.S., we’re getting ready for a lot of snow here in Philadel
January 19, 2016 at 6:54 pm
Major electronics brands, such as Apple, Samsung and Sony, reportedly are failing to do checks to ensure that they aren't sourcing cobalt mined by child workers. A report from Amnesty International, titled "'This is what we die for': Human rights abuses in the…
January 14, 2016 at 6:47 pm
On Jan. 12, a woman in California filed a class action lawsuit against EOS, claiming that its lip balm causes skin to crack, bleed and blister. The lawsuit alleges that many consumers, "potentially in excess of hundreds of thousands, who have purchased and used the product … have experienced devastating adverse reactions to the product,…
January 8, 2016 at 5:11 pm
BIC Graphic, Clearwater, Fla., is launching more than 400 new products this month. Based on research both inside and outside the industry, BIC Graphic's product development team not only has focused on bringing new products to the line, but also expanding top-selling categories with new colors and line extensions, offering distributors more choices. The additions include:…
January 8, 2016 at 4:33 pm
Toddy Gear, Chicago, announced it will show the following new items for the first time at the PPAI EXPO: The Smart Charge 2-in-1 Power Bank is a wall charger and portable power bank that recharges devices while it charges itself—no USB wall-outlet adapter needed. A user plugs the USB cable into the power bank to…
January 7, 2016 at 6:36 pm
We know the dangers of staying out in the sun, and the importance of always protecting ourselves, but how do we know when we've had too much sun (aside from when we look like a lobster, in which case it's too late)? L'Oreal has…
January 5, 2016 at 6:01 pm
Petty Marketing, Cleveland, Tenn., has announced that it secured a three-year, $6 million contract with a $6 billion healthcare provider. Petty Marketing will provide the client's promotional products and trade show materials. Petty Marketing partnered with Proforma, Cleveland, Ohio, to develop an e-commerce site to…
December 7, 2015 at 3:32 pm
Jessi Billmayer knows what it’s like to end up in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), hoping and praying for a healthy baby with nothing at your disposal. The 32-year-old mother from Hogeland, Mont., has delivered three out of her four children in the NICU at Benefis Health System, and knows that sometimes it’s such…
December 1, 2015 at 5:00 pm
Promotional products retailer 4imprint, Oshkosh, Wis., awarded 263 U.S. and Canadian nonprofit organizations, schools and religious organizations with promotional products grants through its one by one program during the third quarter of 2015. Each of the one by one recipient organizations received a $500 in-kind promotional products donation. In awarding the third-quarter grants, 4imprint’s one…
November 25, 2015 at 4:47 pm
About 370 workers fainted at Cambodian factories in a two-day span last week, possibly because of pesticide spraying on nearby rice fields, officials said Friday. The workers were employed at seven different factories inside the 7NG Special Economic Zone, 16 miles north of the capital, Phnom Penh, said Chiev Bunrith, spokesman of the government's National…
