Promo Products

Eagle Graphics, a Kaukauna printer and supplier of corporate apparel, promotional products, signs, banners and business printing services, said Friday that it has purchased the assets of screen-print, embroidery and promotional products distributor Createch Inc. in Kimberly.

Assets acquired include all screen-printing equipment, embroidery machines and customer embroidery and screen-print art files. Also included in the sale is the Panther Division, a mobile screen-printing production unit used for large-scale event merchandising and retail sales.

Indianapolis-based supplier St. Regis Crystal will acquire Chicago awards manufacturer R.S. Owens, effective Dec. 17, 2012.

Hunt Valley, Maryland-based WebbMason, an integrated marketing solutions and services company, has been selected as a business services provider in the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce ChamberPlus+ program.

In light of December’s Buyer’s Guide issue, these promotional products will have to hold you over until our January issue. Don’t worry, Kyle’s wit will return soon—bigger and better.

The results of Print+Promo's 2012 top suppliers list taught us to anticipate the unexpected. We saw positive and negative changes alike.

Control Printing Group, a leading Midwest provider of custom branded print and promotional products, and product fulfillment services, has changed its name to Control Group, effective Oct. 8, 2012.

According to a University of Scranton study, just 8 percent of people who make New Year’s resolutions succeed in their goals. At first, that number is mind-boggling—after all, we’ve never had a problem keeping our perennial resolution (playing lots of video games and subsisting entirely on pizza and soda).

Recently the CPSC took the first steps in more than a decade toward banning a type of product, but that is only one of many actions the commission has taken against businesses recently.

The Quality Certification Alliance (QCA), the promotional product industry’s only independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping companies provide safe products, has awarded QCA Accreditation to Baltimore, Maryland-based Towel Specialties.

Pro Towels Etc., a leading towel supplier located in Pittsburgh, announced that it is changing its name to Pro Towels.