T-shirts and Tanks

Cincy Apparel, a recognized area leader in the screen printing industry, has announced plans to expand to a larger facility in Woodlawn Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati.

"Having a location in the northern part of Cincinnati will give us the ability to serve clients that may find our west side location out of the way," said Chris Swain, senior accounts manager of Cincy Apparel. "The larger production facility will allow us to process orders faster. This is a great milestone for us."

Cincy Apparel will be moving all customer service, sales, art, and printing staff to the new Woodlawn location.

Graphic Communications Inc. (GCI), a custom label and flexible packaging printer located in Warminster, Pa., has launched new silk screen printing services. GCI strongly believes in offering clients a comprehensive range of printing and packaging services and working with them as their multi-service solutions provider on a long term partnership basis.

One day, donning a T-shirt could mean you're also sporting a smart device charger. Engineers have successfully transformed cotton into a flexible, highly conductive component, which means it could charge devices.

Riverside, California-based Gorilla Marketing, a premier promotional products company, is helping companies expand brand awareness with the latest trends in summer apparel for branded clothing.

Bodek and Rhodes has announced that it has added SubliVie, (pronounced Sub-La-Vee), a line of 100 percent polyester T-shirt styles that are tailor-made for sublimation, to their product line-up. In addition, the company's available assortment of tie-dyes and vintage-themed designs has been augmented with new colors, styles and accessories.

In 1996, I was a sophomore in high school. Of course I thought I knew everything about…well, everything. Actually, that’s not entirely true. After giving it two minutes, I recalled something I didn’t understand back then and, admittedly, I still don’t understand it to this day. Of course, I’m talking about the lyrics to “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls (you know…girl power and all of that).

What's new and stylish in the world of promotional tees and tanks.

The company reported that for the month of February, 2012, total net sales increased 13 percent to $42.1 million when compared to the month ended February 28, 2011. Between the same periods, comparable store sales increased an estimated 10 percent and wholesale net sales increased an estimated 24 percent.

India banned cotton exports with immediate effect on Monday to ensure supplies for domestic mills, boosting global prices some 4.5 percent as the absence of shipments from the world's second-largest producer might tighten a market facing weak demand.

India has already exported 9.4 million bales, the government said on Monday, higher than the projected export surplus quota of 8.4 million bales New Delhi had set in January, due to strong demand from China. Each bale is 170 kg.

This week Editor's Picks gets ready for summer, or at least lives in severe denial that it's February, by looking at some of the most popular promotional T-shirts.