Raining Rose

It's two new combatants in this week's video battle. The plan? To finally decide what wins in a fight: laser beams or a tube of lip balm.

Get your votes in his week's video battle before it closes tomorrow morning.

Tthis week's video battle pits Geiger's Star Trek video against Raining Rose's "What Does the Fox Say?"

On Tuesday, Inc. Magazine published its prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the country's fastest-growing companies, and as in years prior, a number of industry suppliers and distributors have made the list. The number of promotional products companies on the list increased by two to 39 businesses, divided between 7 suppliers and 32 distributors.

It's time to take care of yourself for a change—and for that, you're going to need the best personal care products on the market. Give yourself (and your sales) a pick-me-up with the hand sanitizers, lip balms, personal care kits and travel-size cleaning products profiled here.

The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and FORTUNE announced that Raining Rose Inc. (Rank #50) was selected for the 2013 Inner City 100, a list of the fastest-growing inner city companies in the U.S. The Inner City 100 program recognizes successful inner city companies and their CEOs as role models for entrepreneurship, innovative business practices and job creation in America's urban communities. This is the eighth year Raining Rose Inc. has been recognized.

The U.S. Small Business Administration has named Charles B. "Chuck" Hammond Jr., president and CEO of Raining Rose Inc. in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, as its 2013 Iowa Small Business Person of the Year.

Promo Marketing, the leading source of product and marketing information for distributor sales professional, held its third successful Power Meeting last week in sunny Scottsdale, Ariz. with spectacular results.

Inc. Magazine published the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies last week, and once again, several promotional products suppliers and distributors appeared in the rankings. In total, 37 industry businesses made the list this year.

For the third consecutive year, Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Raining Rose Inc. has been named one of the fastest growing companies in the corridor by the Corridor Business Journal. Raining Rose Inc. ranked 13 on the list this year with a growth rate of 82.4 percent.