Gold Bond

Last year was so chock-full of great ideas, we couldn't fit them all into our 2009 Sales Outlook. Below, you'll find the tips we just couldn't squeeze in.

Chase Thompson has left a 20-year career with the Atlanta-based United Parcel Service (UPS), to join Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Gold Bond Inc. in the sales division. The announcement was made by Mark Godsey, the company's president.

Gold Bond Inc., based in Chattanooga, Tenn., announced the introduction of an extensive line of Frost Cutlery. Frost Cutlery, based in Ooltewah, Tennessee, is an importer of fine cutlery brands and a contractor for many domestic brands. Until now, the brand has been sold to major retailers, such as Ace Hardware, and direct to consumers.  Gold Bond has the exclusive rights to offer these knives to the promotional products industry. “We’re proud to offer this new line to our customers,” said Mark Godsey, president, Gold Bond Inc.  He went on to say that all Frost Cutlery products feature quality raw materials and are guaranteed for

NEWS OF THE country’s crumbling economy is nothing unexpected at this point. Few even blink at word that the Dow has bottomed out at zero, or that fallen autumn leaves are actually worth more than the dollar now. Instead, many have moved on to making practical, fully reasonable plans for survival, like hunkering down in fallout shelters or starting Mad Max-style motorcycle gangs. Before getting carried away hoarding food, bullets and Parker Brothers products (the only thing worse than an apocalypse is a boring apocalypse), some distributors will be pleased to know there is still economic life in the pre-apocalyptic world. Specifically, many financial

Chattanooga, Tennessee-based Gold Bond, a leader in promotional golf products, is coming to the aid of distributors everywhere with a new, Web-based Q&A forum on golf in the promotional industry. The goal of the forum, titled “Out of the Bag,” according to Gold Bond president, Mark Godsey, is to maximize the sales of our distributors by providing information on how to sell promotional golf products. According to Godsey, the focus is to provide distributors with timely answers to questions they face in the field, but he also envisions that many distributors who are proficient in the sport will enjoy the opportunity to use the

Gold Bond, Chattanooga, Tenn., is hosting a distributor contest in conjunction with TaylorMade and Maxfli. Through the end of July, all TaylorMade and Maxfli golf items will be on sale. Each time a distributor places an order for one of the products, his or her name will be entered into a drawing for a free trip that includes a golf outing and a tour of Gold Bond’s plant in Chattanooga. “We wanted to put together a trip that would be exciting, relaxing and professionally rewarding,” said Mark Godsey, president. “The answer was to include exciting Chattanooga venues, golf for two at a Jack Nicklaus-designed

LOYALTY HOLDS POWERFUL sway over many people’s actions. It is difficult to settle for good when the best is just a little further. Loyalty will see the extra mile traveled, the extra call made and the extra cost paid. Often, it is a result of superior quality or superior service, while other times familiarity can be held accountable, and yet other people will have a simple affection toward a brand. This is the dream of any corporation: To be known of not as a source, but as the definitive source for a commodity. Promotional Marketing’s 2007 Supplier Excellence Awards recognize the best in more

TO GET AN idea of how much coffee is consumed by Americans, consider the case of researchers in the Seattle area. Thinking they could trace the flow of pollutants in the Puget Sound and the currents that carried them, scientists began taking caffeine samples. Unfortunately, the amount of caffeine proved so great it made the data unusable. According to an Associated Press article, caffeine was found in more than 160 of 216 samples in water as deep as 640 feet. Where did all the caffeine come from? Human bladders and coffee spilled on the street. Meanwhile, the Web site coffeereasearch.org reports “The National Coffee Association

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