Promo Apparel

Headwear has many functions: to shield your eyes and your head from the sun, to warm your ears, to keep your hair back or to just hide your hair on those kinds of days. Whether serving as a sun-protection method or a don't-look-at-my-hair cover-up, it also showcases a brand or a message to everyone who interacts with or even just passes by the wearer that day. Here are 11 cap and headwear pieces that could assist your clients in future marketing efforts and help their end-users on bad hair days.

School may be out for summer, but opportunities in the education sector never slow down for distribu

If you're not already, you should be selling T-shirts. The market is absolutely gargantuan—in 2013, apparel generated $5.51 billion in distributor sales, more than the next three promotional categories combined—and T-shirts are its bread and butter. So whether you're just breaking in or trying to step up your sales game, here's what you need to know about the promotional T-shirt market.

Did you know that apparel sales make up approximately a third of all promotional products sales in the industry? We did, thanks to our sister publication, Promo Marketing (PM).

Alstyle Apparel & Activewear, Anaheim, Calif., has expanded to include two additional distribution shipping points, allowing for geographic diversity coast to coast and greater customer service.

T-shirts are the foundation of the wearables industry. We’ve been writing about them for years, and you’ve been selling them even longer than that. By now, we know T-shirts really well.

Interested in beefing up your product line in 2014? Maybe it's time to give promotional apparel a try.

Old Man Winter isn’t showing any signs of slowing down in 2014. At press time, the East Coast has already been hit with snow and single-digit temperatures, and local meteorologists predict more of the same thanks to Winter Storm Hercules.

Last week, the Associated Press reported that the red-white-and-blue mittens being sold by the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) to raise funds for winter athletes were manufactured in China. The words "Made in China" are clearly imprinted on the inside tag of the 100 percent acrylic mittens.

Step 1: Be Kanye West. Step 2: Don't not be Kanye West.