Indianapolis-based Norwood Promotional Products and BIC Graphic announced today a definitive agreement for BIC to acquire Norwood. After presenting a last minute offer, BIC was awarded the sale  outbidding the original stalking horse, Aurora Resurgence. Total consideration for the acquisition is $125 million plus approximately $37.5 million in assumed liabilities. BIC Graphic USA is a [...]

To properly sell stadium cups it is important to understand some basics of the drinkware industry and how it relates with our industry. The drinkware industry is made up of several big manufacturers who generally are not associated with our promotional products industry. They make large volumes of product & sell directly to the bigger users such as the stadiums at major colleges, pro sports teams, fast food franchises, etc.

There are two primary methods of imprinting stadium cups… screen print & offset print. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages. Some suppliers might pad print cups but that is not the norm.

Offset printing is a method used primarily for multicolor imprints on larger quantity orders. The UV inks used are not as opaque as screen print inks, meaning the vast majority of jobs are printed on white cups. It is a fully automatic process where all imprint colors are printed on the cup in one, single pass… resulting in vibrant imprints with exact registration.

Do you ever wonder what’s missing in your business? Do you ever wonder what your customers are looking for but are not able to find? Do you ever wonder how your customers are being treated by your employees?

People! Can I have your attention please? Stop it! Just stop the madness! Now! Contrary to popular belief, it is not technically possible to multi-task. Our mind is binary and switches off of one task and onto another.

While many businesses are tightening their belts or even laying off employees, Promotional Product Distributors and Consultants can poise themselves to not only survive 2009, but thrive in 2009. It’s time to get back to basics, ladies and gentlemen. Make sure the basics of your business are running like a well-oiled machine.

You’ve heard it before, “we all have the same 24 hours in every day.  It’s what you do with those 24 hours that matter.” How true this statement rings.  But how do we truly go about putting this wisdom to work?
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A recent advertising for a college claimed that on average people with masters degrees earned $10,000 more per year than those without masters degrees.  So why don’t more people have them?  Well, I suppose the reasons would be things like people not having the time, money or desire to pursue them.  But what if the [...]

We all know that if we want more money in our lives, we need to either make more money or do things that require less of our money. If only making more time was an option! Unfortunately, we can’t make more time……..