Listawood heads for Hill
Former managing director of Senator Pens, Andrew Hill, has joined promotional products manufacturer, Listawood in the newly created role of group sales and marketing director.
Export drive helps AMT land trade award
Guildford merchandise company, AMT Marketing, has won the Queen’s Award for International Trade for Outstanding Short-Term Growth.
Put Learning First – BPMA Educational Program
Don’t let a lack of personal development hold back your staff and your business. The BPMAMA education programme provides the perfect training platform for merchandise businesses, says Daniela Arena
Fuelled By Merchandise
Shell turned to a promotional media approach when it needed to boost sales and awareness of a key product. The result was an award-winning campaign
Feeling Good
Look & Feel was the motto of HAPTICA live ‘19 in Bonn, Germany. There was plenty to look at and feel for the 1,840 visitors (up slightly on the 1,803 last year) of the seventh edition of the show. The 198 exhibitors (193 in 2018) presented novelties, bestsellers and highlights of their product portfolios.
Flying High in Bonn
James Clephan and Dave House, inventors of the BalloonGrip, collected B-Loony’s Promotional Gift Award at Haptica Live.
BPMA – Looking to the NextGen
A new industry group is helping the younger members of the merchandise industry chart its future, says Jon Birrell.
Obituary: Paul Persey
The founder of garment business PenCarrie passed away recently.
Young opens a new chapter on her career
Liz Young, the supplier services director at Sourcing City, the BPMA’s partner in Merchandise World, is taking on a new position.
Kalfany opts for exclusive deal for UK
Europe’s largest supplier and manufacturer of branded candies, Kalfany, has partnered with UK confectionery supplier, The Sweet People, in an exclusive agreement. These two well-known suppliers of branded confectionery have signed a deal to bring more branded confectionery to the UK’s promotional merchandise market.
Body of Proof
Individual biometric data could open the way to more secure and convenient technological options, but it’s not foolproof, says Matt Pluckrose
Abidur Rahman, Bounce Creative Designs
Abidur Rahman registered his business Bounce Creative Designs when he graduated from university. In that respect he’s like many of the entrepreneurial figures who drive the promotional merchandise sector.
Safety first – Travel Plug adaptors
The BPMA wants to make its members aware of the different standards relating to travel adaptors and to ensure the whole supply chain is managing each other’s expectations as well as those of the end-users.
Printkick release free to use colour matching tool
Printkick has released a free to use image colour matching tool for the promotional merchandise industry.
Robson takes on new design brief
EverythingBranded has appointed Pierce Robson as its new head of design. Robson, who joined the company as a graphic designer in early 2017, will focus on making the design process easier for all parties, by altering and improving elements of the procedure and how EverythingBranded deals with requested work.
PF Concept creates new paper and apparel offerings
PF Concept has launched its own paper manufacturing facility in Blackpool to add a new self-produced promotional paper range to its portfolio of made in UK products with competitive pricing and fast delivery. The company’s varied product collection now includes a wide range of paper products, from sticky notes, notebooks and desk calendars to notepads, blockmates and combi notes.
Fred Goozee takes a bold appearance
Outstanding Branding client experience manager, Fred Goozee took the bold step of cutting off his signature long locks, for two fantastic causes.
Management buy-out of Hambleside Merchandise
Hambleside Merchandise directors, Suzie Munday and Jennie Scott have bought the business from parent company Grinterley Limited. The pair have been employed by the company for 15 years, achieving directorships in 2014. The company, which originally supplied diaries to the UK market, has been part of the Hambleside Group of companies since 1975.
Latest Event takes Merchandise on Tour!
More than 50 distributors attended the first The BIG Promotional Trade Show event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow, before the show moved around venues in the UK and Ireland.
Senator UK Appoints Shane Davies as Managing Director
Today, senator® announced the appointment of Shane Davies as Managing Director of the UK’s leading personalised promotional writing instrument and mug manufacturer; bringing with him a wealth of operational and leadership experience from 17 years in the Metropolitan Police, with more recent posts in senior management at National Express.
Group CEO Daniel Jeschonowski is positive about the appointment: “Having seen many candidates during the application process, we feel that Shane encompasses the full package of what we are looking for in this role – he is experienced, determined and focused, and will be the perfect fit to build on the market-leading position that senator® UK is in currently. We welcome him to the senator® group, and look forward to working with him.”
Shane will spend the coming weeks learning what has made senator® UK the success it is today, and will be attending as many industry events as possible moving forward to introduce himself to customers.
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