Promotional Products Association Intl. (PPAI) released the results of its annual sales volume study, revealing distributor sales of promotional products climbed 7.02% in 2011 to about $17.7 billion.
Spotlight on Caps
April 02, 2012
Adding headwear offerings can bring good margins and be great add-ons for athletic or promotional orders. Educate your customers that logo-emblazoned hats catch the attention of hundreds of eyeballs daily and are worth the added investment to their traditional orders.
The Impressions Newsletter is a bi-weekly e-newsletter packed with the latest decorated apparel news, articles from the magazine, tradeshow updates and much more. The newsletter also offers tips specific to your business' specialty interest areas. These specific communities include High Volume Decorator, Retail Decorator, Home-Based Decorator and Tech Tips.
FORUM
Welcome to T-shirtforums.com, a partner of Impressions magazine and the Imprinted Sportswear Shows that provides an online discussion place for the decorated apparel community. Users of this free forum also can get help locating hard-to-find apparel items and promotional products in the "Wholesale Blank T-shirts and Other Imprintable Products" discussion group.
2009 TOP-VOLUME DECORATORS
Decorators on Impressions' annual list of top-volume shops prove that an economic downturn doesn't necessarily mean a slump in production, sales volume or mindset. Find out what it took for 2009's high-volume decorators to make it to the top.
IMPRESSIONS UNIVERSITY
Impressions University, an online learning program designed to meet the continuing education needs of commercial embroiderers, screen printers and promotional products distributors in the decorated apparel industry, has added Trump University classes to its product offering. Classes focus on the skill sets of operating a successful small business today.
The One-Stop Source for Decorated Apparel Industry Professionals
The leading companies in the decorated apparel industry all turn to one publication when they need to get the latest information on establishing and growing a profitable decorated apparel business - Impressions Magazine. Impressions is the one source you can trust for authoritative, up-to-date information on shirt printing, how to screen print, and how to create embroidery, heat-applied graphics and digital printing such as sublimation and DTG printing.
Impressions is the one-stop source for authoritative information and education on the decorated apparel business, including embellishing on wholesale apparel and promotional products. This resource is crucial to apparel decorating professionals seeking to establish and grow a profitable decorated apparel business. Every issue of our decorated apparel magazine, both print and online, is geared toward providing how-to instructions needed to perform the four major processes that comprise the decorating apparel industry marketplace — screen printing, embroidery, heat-applied graphics and digital printing. Impressions also provides business and trend information unique to the decorated apparel and promotional products industry.
