Business Strategies for the Distributor Sales Professional
Customer Focus, Costa Mesa, Calif., (previously known as Technologo and Trade Only) announced that on Aug. 11, 2015 a U.S. patent was issued, covering a number of claims related to the creation and rendering of artwork onto images online, and the subsequent output in the correct format for Web publishing or as a print-ready file.
After misleading customers with promotional products, including scratch-off game cards, and fraudulent sales tactics, Atlantic Auto Group will settle with the New York Attorney General for restitution and penalties. The chain of 22 dealerships in Nassau and Suffolk counties will pay $310,000.
Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), the not-for-profit association for more than 500,000 industry professionals and 11,000 corporate members of the $19.8 billion promotional products industry, has changed the name of its long-running Product Safety Summit.
Compliance is a difficult subject. It's hard to memorize all of the rules. General use products have an extensive list of requirements and children's products have even more, but what about when a general use product becomes a children's product?
Consumers for Paper Options, a coalition advocating for access to paper-based services and information, applauded progress in the effort to restore the mailing of Social Security Earnings Statements, which has been a key focus of the coalition's agenda for more than two years.
Promo Marketing Media Group, the parent group of Print+Promo magazine, and Quality Certification Alliance (QCA) today announced a new partnership focused on increasing awareness of product safety and social compliance though special magazine supplements, online videos and education opportunities.
During the summer of 2007, millions of Chinese-made toys were recalled for lead paint violations and magnet hazards. After the incident made headlines, people in the promotional products industry started to worry.
PPAI has announced a new product safety program aimed at increasing education for suppliers and distributors. The program will require member companies to complete a minimum of four hours of product safety education in order to gain access to the PPAI marketplace.
Eliminating paper drug labeling such as package inserts in favor of e-labels could compromise the availability of information for some patients, physicians and pharmacists, a government study found.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) sought input on the partial or complete substitution of e-labels from the FDA, patient advocates, pharmacy groups, manufacturers, and medical societies including the American Medical Association, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and American Academy of Physician Assistants.
Big news out of Washington, DC, during an otherwise sleepy week on Capitol Hill. The Obama Administration announced a one year delay (or "transition relief") of the employer mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) currently scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2014. The mandate would require employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent workers to provide health insurance at prescribed levels or to face penalties and fees starting at $2,000 per worker.
