Towels and Textiles

Pro Towels offered a free COVID-19 vaccination clinic for all of its employees on-site on March 23 at its Abbeville, S.C., facility, in hopes to help further protect them during the pandemic. Pro Towels partnered with its local hospital, Abbeville Area Medical Center, to get employees vaccinated on-site, so they would not have to leave…

In August 2019, Grossman Marketing Group launched its SwagCycle program, which let companies repurpose their unwanted or unused branded items. In its first year, the program engaged with 21 different companies, kept 60,418 items out of landfills and yielded $168,922.18 in charitable donations...

This year's NCAA Tournament is taking place in one city—Indianapolis. And, to help student-athletes adapt to life inside the bubble, the tournament is giving out a pretty impressive branded gift set, including toiletries, bedding, games and more...

Sportsman Cap & Bag, Lenexa, Kan., has added a USA-made, reusable face cover from Gaiter King. Currently available in six color combinations, the 100% polyester, UPF 50, antimicrobial neck gaiter is infused with copper and silver, and features same edges and IONx2 technology...

Towel Specialties, Baltimore, announced the promotion of Shawn Kanak to president. As both president of Towel Specialties and an integral member of the executive team, Kanak will oversee national sales efforts for all three divisions—Towel Specialties, Cobblestone Mills Blanket Company and Xpress Towels...

Since we’ve had that little bit of extra time to breathe this week, we found some pretty fun and interesting promotional products. This week's edition of the Fave 5 includes blankets for outdoor dining, Dodgers World Series face masks and more...

A bill that would have changed the way apparel manufacturers pay their workers in California came up short before it could even get to a vote before a midnight deadline. The bill would have required apparel manufacturing operations to pay workers hourly wages, only allowing per-piece pay as additional incentives...

Yesterday, we reported that the Tennessee government had told everyone to wait to wear the free masks it spent $8.2 million on, after concerns arose that an antimicrobial material used in production could be harmful to people. Thankfully, the pause didn’t take too long, and the result is that the masks are, in fact, safe to wear...

According to Science Daily, researchers believe they’ve developed a textile garment that could adapt to temperature, cooling the wearer in the summer and warming them up in the winter. It could also help them potentially save some money on their air conditioning bill...

On Thursday, the Las Vegas Raiders made headlines way ahead of the start of their first campaign outside of Oakland, drafting wide receiver Henry Ruggs III. Ruggs, of course, was rocking an Old Spice branded bathrobe as a part of his big night, which quickly became the talk of the internet...