Category: Member News

Premier Print & Promotions announced that it has acquired privately owned promotional company, Smarter Promotional. Based in Devizes, Smarter Promotional is a small promotional merchandise company that will now be incorporated into the Premier Print & Promotions business.

Press Release

Washington D.C, October 2018

Justin Mundy, the Director of the Prince’s Charities’ International Sustainability Unit (ISU), announces that 36 brands and retailers have now signed up to the Sustainable Cotton Communiqué and so pledged that, by 2025, 100% of the cotton they use will come from sustainable sources. Mantis World, thus far the only representative of the Printwear industry, stands alongside some of the world’s most renowned brands and retailers including Burberry, H&M, Adidas, M&S, and Timberland in joining this commitment.

This announcement was made at the annual Textile Exchange Sustainability Conference in Washington DC, where over 500 textile and apparel leaders came together to discuss the most important sustainability issues facing the industry.

Having established itself as a leading branded golf gifts supplier, TKG Europe is celebrating the successful 2017 launch of a popular non-golf range.
AND away from TKG HQ in East Yorkshire, two team members have been achieving personal highs and raising vital funds for a lifesaving charity.

Proud of their TRADE-ONLY ethos and high level of customer service, earlier this year the TKG team revealed its first non-golf branded gift range – and it’s proving to be a huge hit!

Merchandise Agency Expands Sports Client Roster, EMEA Offerings With UK Acquisition

Woodinville, Wash– October 3, 2017 – Bensussen Deutsch & Associates, LLC (BDA), the premier Merchandise Agency™ serving Fortune 1000 companies worldwide and the leading provider to the sports and entertainment industries, today announced that it has acquired the UK’s leading provider of specialist sports merchandise, Sports Merchandise Global (SMG).

There are only 11 days left of our ProMart 3.0 September Launch Offer.  We have had a full calendar for the past 3 weeks doing demos for prospective clients. If you were one of them then you are locked into this offer and can order anytime till the end of October for the discount to apply.

If you are not one of them then what are you waiting for? Contact us for a Demo on +44 1795 857 804 or email us at sales@promonet.co.uk

So you can get an overview of what ProMart can do before that demo we have created a short video to showcase some of the features on offer…

Dukes Global Ltd, a long-established London based distributor, were placed into administration on Friday 1st September 2017 by Leonard & Curtis in London (AJ Duncan and AD Cadwallender). On Monday 4th September 2017 at 10:56am the company and assets were purchased by Bensussen Deutsch & Associates Ltd (BDA). The sale specifically excluded the shares held in subsidiaries, cash at bank and book debts.

Following the demise of Dukes Global Ltd, the BPMA has been working very hard to pull together the facts as well as to put urgent steps in place to try and support the affected suppliers.

Fast, Intuitive, Order and CRM System for the Promotional Merchandise Industry.

We have developed a system that is well designed, intuitive, saves time and helps generate sales and are launching version 3 in September 2017

To promote this release we are offering a double discount, so get signed up this month!

Signups in the month of September 2017 will receive:

We are sad to hear of the passing away of David Tauber after a battle with cancer. Many will have known David from Totnoll Promotions, which he started in 1977 and then sold 20 years later.

David was fascinated with the Apple Mac in the mid 80’s and recognised its leading-edge capabilities.

Event Date: April 29th 2017 – St Mary’s Church, Witney.

Oxfordshire, January 2017

Micromarketing Ltd, a Promotional Product Agency who work with private, public and not-for-profit organisations in the UK supplying corporate branded gifts, bespoke promotional products and high-quality merchandise, are proud to be sponsoring The Round Table’s 6th Annual Witney Beer Festival on April 29th. The event will take place in Witney’s beautiful Grade 1 listed building, St. Mary’s Church. Doors open at midday and the festival is over when the beer sells out.

X Factor finalist Honey G now has her own merchandise! The rapper didn’t even win The X Factor this year, but she’s got official Honey G mugs, toys and clothes. And she’s unveiled her range in a photo shoot three days before Christmas and one day before her debut single.

I was privileged to go and witness the merchandise operation of Glasgow-based promotional products supplier and bpma member, BIG in the UK, the exclusive on-site sales provider to the world’s biggest single-day sporting event, the UEFA Champions League Final. The 2016 final between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, was held at the San Siro in Milan, Italy. The 80,000 crowd is provided with the best in terms of security, hospitality, experiential marketing and obviously official merchandising.

Technology has freed distributors to sell more promotional products, says Sourcing Machine’s Charlene Barbarino.

All distributors have had the call from one of their clients who want a promotional product but are not sure what and need a load of ideas to be sent to them. With thousands of products available, it’s often difficult to know where to start. In the past, there were two options. You could send the latest catalogue and wait a couple of days for it to arrive.

For the second year running Senator Pens has scooped the ‘Encore Supplier of the Year’ award, as voted by Encore group members. Meanwhile, The Pen Warehouse was the winner in the hard-fought Supplier of the Year award by The Envoy Catalogue Group. It came third to Senator in the Encore catalogue awards.

Product Media was invited to attend one of the five presentations around the country to understand Sourcing City (SC) plans to tackle one of the promotional merchandise industry’s biggest challenges. David Long, chairman of SC, has now engaged with more than 200 companies. The problem of a single hub where suppliers can enter data in one system then retrieve it has been an issue for many years.

Following the success of two London-based TOPS shows, Outstanding Branding this month held its first ever regional end-user show in Manchester.

CHX Products has won the contract to make the more environmentally friendly badge for children’s TV programme Blue Peter.

Branded merchandise supplier Fluid Branding has opened three new offices within the first four months of 2016.

The expansion adds offices in Carthorpe in the North East, Camden in London and most recently, Manchester, to the existing four offices in Cornwall, Plymouth, Bury St Edmunds and Leeds.