Bodek And Rhodes

Philadelphia Area Promotional Products Association (PAPPA) awarded Philadelphia-based supplier Bodek and Rhodes its Supplier of the Year honor at its annual Liberty Awards last month.

The best thing we can do as garment counselors is to make our clients look like heroes to THEIR end-users. The perfect apparel category for that? Jackets.

Safeguard Corp., a Dallas-based distributor, recognized Chris O'Connor, the national accounts manager at Philadelphia-based apparel supplier Bodek and Rhodes, with its Above & Beyond Award. O'Connor received the award at Safeguard's annual Vendor Appreciation Reception at the PPAI Expo last month in Las Vegas.

What is your special advantage? Your mojo? Your secret sauce? What gets customers ringing your phone, locked onto your website, calling you "the only game in town" for them?

We've been through enough winters to know that picturesque snow won't last. Take advantage of this brief window of beauty by selling robes and loungewear.

Philadelphia-based Bodek and Rhodes, a leading distributor of imprintable apparel, officially revealed the artwork for the office version of its upcoming 2014 catalog. In a first for the company, the cover art was voted on by customers via the Bodek and Rhodes Facebook page to help celebrate the company's upcoming 75th anniversary.

On each and every Thanksgiving, my Father—a simple man, cowboy and alfalfa seed farmer originally from the Montana badlands—upheld his patriarchal honor to begin our feast with a humble short-and-sweet toast. From the time I remember him playing peek-a-boo with me, until the time he played peek-a-boo with his youngest grandchild (my daughter) until his passing 19 years ago, he would proclaim the same, simple wish for all: "May there be more of us next year."

The next time you truly want to wow your VIP customers, make it not about YOU, but about THEM. It just might make the difference between you and that other competitor just as hungry for their business

To help customers capitalize early for fourth-quarter market share of the holiday gift season, Bodek and Rhodes announced the launch of the industry's first holiday campaign using ready-to-launch integrated media, through both catalogs and a variety of web-based outlets.

More puppies! And pet products to keep them happy.