Management
June 21, 2019 at 11:41 am
HUB Promotional Group, Braintree, Mass., announced the addition of East Coast promotional product rep firm Brooks & Brooks as representatives for the New England territory. The firm, which has been in business since 1974, features three field reps—Carson Brooks, Joshua Brooks and Erin Joslin—supported by three internal employees. Brooks & Brooks has received many industry and…
June 20, 2019 at 10:25 am
The Vernon Company, Newton, Iowa, announced the hiring of Kelli Denes as director of business development. In this role, Denes will be actively directing Vernon’s national recruiting efforts in addition to working with the company’s top salespeople to strategically grow the business with major accounts, and helping the company…
June 19, 2019 at 11:33 am
Proforma’s senior leadership team recently met with the Proforma Owner Advisory Council Technology Committee to celebrate exceeding 1,000 users on its new ProVision Business Management System. Proforma’s Owner Advisory Council (OAC) consists of peer-elected Proforma members from across North America. Proforma has invested more than $10 million dollars developing its new proprietary system, and employs…
June 18, 2019 at 10:21 am
Beacon Promotions, New Ulm, Minn., has added Sarah Braidic Fette as a new sales account development associate. Fette was half of the Brad and Sarah Morning Show on Hot 96.7 and Z99 in Southern Minnesota. She is originally from the Twin Cities, but has called the Mankato area…
June 13, 2019 at 11:11 am
The Magnet Group, Washington, Mo., announced that it has hired industry veteran Robin Daniel as its Mid-Atlantic regional sales manager. Daniel will be responsible for accounts in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. “Robin is an extremely intelligent, professional and driven individual," Joe Huber, national sales manager for…
June 12, 2019 at 10:02 am
HUB Promotional Group, Braintree, Mass., announced today that Chris Anderson will become the company's new CEO on June 14. Anderson, formerly chief operating officer for the company, will fill the role vacated by Joe Fleming following his resignation as CEO. "I am thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to lead HPG," Anderson said in a…
June 3, 2019 at 11:05 am
Business and life can be stressful. Most folks I know work hard to achieve great things in the future. And live with great regrets about past failures. Few of us know how to just enjoy the present, which is all we really have. The past is gone. The future isn’t here yet. The present is…
May 31, 2019 at 1:46 pm
Question: I reconcile my bank account by hand. Do I need to do it in QuickBooks too? Answer: QuickBooks does have a reconcile function on all its products. It lists all the items that you posted as bank items, and then asks you to compare these to your actual bank statements. The QB Reconcile function…
May 31, 2019 at 10:55 am
HanesBrands Inc., Winston-Salem, N.C., announced that Tim Gibson has joined the company as director of business development, and Jim Dunne has joined as director of distributor sales. Gibson, who has more than 30 years in the apparel and promotional marketing industry, will develop and implement strategic initiatives across field and…
May 30, 2019 at 2:03 pm
To justify taking the easy way out and not having the harder, more educational conversations with their customers, both suppliers and distributors tell themselves all kinds of lies: “My customers aren’t asking for it,” “My competitors aren’t doing it,” “It’s too expensive” and “No one has been caught.” What they may not realize is that these lies are costing them business...
