Gemline

Two more industry powerhouses, PolyConcept North America (which includes Bullet, Leed’s, Trimark and Humphrey), Pittsburgh, and Gemline, Lawrence, Mass., have joined the ranks of Geiger, Lewiston, Maine, and other industry visionaries to provide inventory via Common Web Services. They join Starline Inc., Hit Promotional Products, BIC Graphic, Jetline, Logomark and Southern Plus.

Compliance is a difficult subject. It's hard to memorize all of the rules. General use products have an extensive list of requirements and children's products have even more, but what about when a general use product becomes a children's product?

AIA Corporation, Neenah, Wis., honored suppliers at its National Sales Summit in Orlando, Fla.

More than 400 Geiger sales partners, suppliers, associates and professional industry speakers attended this year's National Education Conference in Phoenix, an annual event that Lewiston, Maine-based distributor Geiger hosts.

Chesapeake Promotional Products Association (CPPA) has announced the winners of the 2014 Peake Awards. The CPPA Peake Awards spotlight the top promotional consultants and promotional products suppliers in the Chesapeake region by highlighting distributor-specific and supplier-specific accomplishments along with overall awards for campaign excellence and commitment to the association.

There are many things in life and business that are important to us. We have a passion for what we do in our personal and professional lives. And many of us are quite passionate... myself included.

After a deadly F5 tornado destroyed more than 1,000 homes and killed 24 people in Moore, Okla., several members of the promotional products community donated time and products to the state's recovery efforts.

The Premier Promotional Group elected three new members to its board of directors during the organization's Annual Meeting. Sam Sumrall of National Awards, Paula Shulman of Prime Line and Mark Stewart of DLX Industries all joined the group's board of directors.

All-expenses-paid hotels for nominees, organized entertainment and networking, gift basket after gift basket after gift basket: the bigger the awards ceremony, the more sales opportunities there are for promotional products.

Trade Only Inc. has introduced 3-D instant virtual samples to its Trade Only VISION Product Research and Order Management solution, the first fully integrated 360-degree virtual sampling service.