Promo Apparel

Let's say your favorite team has been throwing around a sort of unofficial motto for the season that's become a rallying cry of sorts. It's fun. It's something every fan can feel a part of. But what if you wanted to be an even bigger part of the team and its identity? Would you trademark that phrase in an attempt to sort of extort the team into working with you? One Las Vegas apparel maker thought that was the best course of action...

Storm Creek, Hastings, Minn., announced that it contributed a record $50,002 to charity in 2019. The giving total includes more than $40,000 donated to participating charity partners during the company's annual warehouse sales in October and November, as well as $10,000 for 1% for the Planet. Storm Creek also gives countless product/in-kind donations to local…

Coca-Cola is unveiling a subscription box service for its fans, with the immediate reaction showing yet again that companies’ affinity for giving audiences branded merch via subscription box will not soon fizz out.

While Anna and Elsa have obtained commendable commercial clout, nobody has come to match the merch-moving power of Barbie. With 2019 marking the 60th anniversary of the fashion doll’s introduction, the Barbie Truck Totally Throwback Tour is honoring the toy’s influence on countless childhoods through stops across the country...

Where would we be without apparel? Well, we probably wouldn't be in public, that's for sure. Colder, too. Jokes aside, promotional apparel remains the top selling category for the industry. So, naturally, we covered it a lot this year. Here are 10 of our most-read, favorite or otherwise noteworthy apparel stories from 2019...

Over his short yet prolific career, Jimi Hendrix prided himself on being a nonconformist. Through Sony Music’s Thread Shop, however, he is set, at least from a commercial perspective, to join a roster of music legends and current artists who have received the branded merch treatment...

A T-shirt for the Redbox Bowl depicts Cal State, rather than the University of California, facing off against a University of Illinois team with an outdated helmet design. University of California officials said they rejected the design, yet somehow it managed to make it to the T-shirt anyway...

Two of our favorite stories this year came in September, when a boy bullied over his homemade Tennessee T-shirt had his design picked up by the Volunteers’ football program and subsequently received a full scholarship from the university. Now, we're happy to report that the nonprofit STOMP Out Bullying received nearly $1 million through sales of the shirt...

Walmart recently removed a holiday sweater from its Canadian website, denying shoppers a chance to buy the item emblazoned with a Santa-like figure, the text “Let It Snow” and a whole lot of cocaine. Posted by a third-party seller, the listing also included a description that removed whatever ambiguity was left as to what kind of snow the sweater was referencing...

Here in Philly, we don't need an excuse to talk about the Eagles' Super Bowl Victory. So, you won't be surprised to see a "Philly Special" item on this week's list of our favorite promotional products we spied in our travels on the web and in the world. What else is in store? Read on and find out!...