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Pacific Handy Cutter, Costa Mesa Calif. and All-In-One, San Diego announced the companies have entered into a strategic alliance within the promotional products industry.

USA Inc., Grand Island, N.Y. announced the launch of the 2010 Full Line Catalog. Introducing over 100 new products including the company's new Magnet line and several go- green products. The 2010 New Products Edition is available on Starline.com and features Starline’s new products for 2010 from the company's eight industry categories.

Supplier International Merchandise Concepts (IMC), Agoura Hills, Calif., announced the launch of its new 2010 collections. These new collections and items increase the line items available from IMC to well over 2,200.

"HOME IS WHERE the heart is," may be perfectly cute and philosophical as far as generic cultural idioms go, but ?information-laden it is not. After all, the home is a big place, so where exactly in the house might the "heart" be? The kitchen?

Westborough, Massachusetts-based SolveIT Inc. announced it signed a partnership with Mauldin, South Carolina-based Aprons Etc. to co-market and promote CustomView eGain module

There are the fun and cool scavengers that get to be in nature documentaries, like the hyena and remora. Then there are the creepy and much-hated scavengers, like the rat, vulture and weird guy with glasses straps and stained monochrome T-shirt you always see in the bargain sections of bookstores, studying huge hardcover books like "Gulches: Long Holes of the Southwest." Me though, I'm going to go with the zombie as my favorite scavenger. Partly because they're awesome (I sure do love a good zombie movie), but also because they make their living off the brains of others, which is just what I'm about to do. Below are few links to articles I've found,  accompanied by neat little summaries.

Indianapolis-based Norwood Promotional Products announced it added the social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter to its marketing mix. A multidisciplinary team of social networkers has been formed, drawing from sales, product development/merchandising, e-Business and marketing. 

Bullet Line, Miami, a member of Polyconcept North America, the second largest supplier within the promotional products industry, announced it reduced prices on 52 of its top-selling products by up to 30 percent, through the end of the year.

Grand Island, New York-based Starline USA announced that since the number of QuickPick entries exceeded the company's expectations, it decided to award more than

New Kensington, Pennsylvania-based Leed’s, a member of Polyconcept North America, the second largest supplier within the promotional products industry,