Promo Products

Happy New Year! After a month-long break, our Hot Product section is back and better than ever. To get 2014 started on the right foot, check out the four products below.

Looking at the five-decade old Claymation Gumby that symbolizes her business, Promotional Incentives, you wouldn't think Lucy Costa and her husband, Jack, the co-owner, are international traders anchored to the global economy.

But it's true. Mrs. Costa, a sharply articulate, Cape Coral-based entrepreneur who arranges the delivery of promotional products to businesses all over the United States and the world, is worried about the price of shipping fuel, and politics in Yemen, and Chinese aggression in the Sea of Japan.

College students need wristbands to get into bars. Sometimes they need lawyers when they get out of them.

Writing instruments have played the role of trusty sidekick throughout our formative years. Without them, there wouldn't have been Pulitzer-worthy poetry in our notebooks, doodles on the rubber soles of our Chuck Taylor's or book reports to turn in during the pre-computer era.

As companies plan ahead for 2014, the Print+Promo staff simply wants to survive the year-end rush. Guess what would brighten our day? Presents. Lots of them. (After all, ʼtis the season for giving.) See below for ideas. And if that doesn’t work, just send cash. We thank you in advance.

Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) has announced new board members Bruce Perryman, MAS+, CEO of supplier Embroidery Unlimited Inc., and Mary Jo Tomasini, CAS, CEO of distributor CE Competitive Edge LLC.

Football season is back, and everyone knows what that means—Facebook is about to get even uglier.

While fans can always rely on social media to see old rivalries play out, they’ll soon learn that real life can bring unavoidable change.

Netflix resurrected "Arrested Development" from the TV graveyard earlier this year by debuting all 15 episodes of a new fourth season.

Kids throw tantrums. Spouses come with in-laws. Friends come with spouses (who, in turn, come with their own in-laws and/or multiple kids who will be throwing multiple tantrums). All in all, there’s not much to like about people.

Gift-giving. It's ingrained in our cultural consciousness, a key ingredient in the jambalaya that is modern society, right up there with apple pie, Justin Timberlake and fantasy football.