After a competing vendor once blatantly stole a bunch of his company's positioning / messaging language ... a CEO I knew shipped them a box of t-shirts (with his company's logo on it), noting "you stole our message, you might as well wear our t-shirt while you're at it." ...
It's that time of year. The end of awards season brings a flock of men and women sporting thick-rimmed glasses and just-so-ironic T-shirts to Cannes. There, they will drink themselves silly and toast another year of stellar creative work. No doubt, t It's that time of...
What's selling for summer in New York? Children's Business visited national specialty chains Abercrombie & Fitch, The Children's Place and Old Navy, and surveyed 7 to 14/8 to 20 consumers on their mid-June purchases. ABERCROMBIE &...
BEIJING--Jul. 28--A billion people in China may be transfixed by Li Xiaoshuang's gold medal mastery of the pommel horse, but right now, the director of China's Olympic Committee is fretting over T-shirts. BEIJING--Jul. 28--A billion people in China may be transfixed by Li Xiaoshuang's gold...
ONEIDA INDIAN NATION--Oneida Textile Printing Company OTP, one of eight enterprises located near Oneida, and run by the Oneida Nation, has gained a license from Viacom Consumer Products to produce T-shirts and sweatshirts carrying colored graphics of characters and scenes from the new movie, "The Indian in the Cupboard," a...
Self-liquidating offers of T-shirts and caps have historically been a good way for marketers to extend brand image at low cost. Marketers can afford higher-quality premiums for SLOs than they can for gifts-with-purchase or other giveaways. Th Self-liquidating...
TACOMA, Wash.--Nov. 18--Kent-based Sun Sportswear has agreed to merge with Cincinnati-based BSI Holdings, a manufacturer and distributor of decorated sportswear with sales of $200 million a year. Sun, which silkscreens T-shirts, has been owned by TACOMA, Wash.--Nov. 18--Kent-based Sun Sportswear has agreed...
Jun. 15--When Don Tyson views a western Oklahoma wheat field, he sees Oreo cookies, and when he views an Arkansas cotton farm, he sees T-shirts. "You can't make any money out of wheat. You have to make something else out of it. Farmers have to be Jun....
JAMIE KILSTEIN The GRV *** It's not hard to see why the fresh-faced UK comic Matt Kirshen recommended his US counterpart Kilstein to Fringe audiences. Both are ardent and eloquent critics of religion, and both have material that is sometimes weightier than their own personae can...
BEIJING -- It took 12 days, but a social conscience finally arrived at these Olympic Games. No one unfurled a Save Darfur banner on the medal stand or unzipped a team jacket to reveal a Free Tibet T-shirt. It wasn't nearly that dramatic. But it was significant that...
Local & state: Kansas football hosting Fan Appreciation Day Kansas Football will host its annual Fan Appreciation Day on Aug. 20 at 5:30 p.m. Kivisto Field at Memorial Stadium will be the site of the event and fans will be admitted to the stadium...
A scrubby guy lip-synchs a catchy tune about how his bad credit forced him to buy a "used sub-compact" instead of a "cool convertible or an SUV," or how it forced him to dress like a pirate and sell fish "to tourists in t-shirts," or how his wife's bad credit...
BANGKOK AFP — Former British glam rocker Gary Glitter was heading for London Tuesday after serving a child molestation sentence in a Vietnamese prison, and may not be allowed to leave his home country again. Glitter left the communist country late Tuesday, travelling to London via Bangkok, an...
The HIV/AIDS Resource Center and theHemophilia Foundation of Michigan are once again joining forces in thefight against AIDS and asking members of the community to SAVE THE DATE -Sunday, September 21, 2008. Make plans to join hundreds of walkers for a 5k walk through beautifuldowntown Ann Arbor and feel good...
From Boulevard3, international television programming sensation NWWL (Naked Women's Wrestling League) will officially launch the WTWL (wet T-shirt Wrestling League) shot for pay-per-view and will showcase sexy live professional women's wrestling. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hollywood debut of the all female combat Extravaganza called...
New Historic Program, Presented by American Express, Debuts in Restaurants across the Country September 21-28, 2008 HOUSTON -- Joe's Crab Shack is doing its part to end childhood hunger in our country by joining Share Our Strength's Great American Dine Out[TM], presented by American Express, as a participating...
BEIJING -- Xia Yunshu was one of about 500 government workers given free Olympics tickets to fill otherwise empty seats during a round of beach volleyball. "I don't understand the rules, but it's exciting to see an Olympic event," said Xia, from the suburb of Shibalidian, who was...
EVEN THE super rich cannot be guaranteed the smoothest summer holiday, it seems. Roman Abram-ovich's stay in Italy has been soured by his girlfriend Dasha Zhukova's decision to deliver a public snub to the country's cherished fashion industry. While the Russian tycoon was dining at Italian Prime...
Rock the Vote and CafePress Team Up To Inspire Young Voters by Selling RTV Gear and Exclusive Framed Art SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 20 at 11:00 am PDT, CafePress and Rock the Vote will launch the sale of 100 exclusive framed prints...
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