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A restaurant chain that chooses Modal for its kitchen staff will find that those employees are going to overheat during the dinner rush night after night. And a bank that selects Tencel for their tellers will probably see that the fabric starts to pill early, so the whole team looks sloppy after just 6 months […]

The fabric you pick for your branded shirts is what separates the ones your entire team actually wants to wear from the ones that get buried in the back of a closet. The fabric choice determines how well your logo is going to print, how comfortable the shirt feels when they put it on and […]

Pick a Pantone shade, send the reference off to production and somehow the finished fabric comes back looking like a very different color. The hue is off, and the depth feels wrong - and your original swatch gave you zero indication that any of this would happen. It's almost never just one variable at play […]

Your sales team needs 15 branded hoodies, and it should be easy enough. Call around to suppliers, and most of them will tell you that the minimum order is 50 pieces. Or maybe the budget covers 30 custom water bottles at the conference booth. But suppliers won't produce anything less than 100 units (it's called […]

Company swag carries more weight than most HR departments give it credit for. Employees know when they've been handed a cheap promotional item that's headed straight for the donation bin or the back of a desk drawer. That sends a message that the leadership sees them as walking advertisements instead of valued members of the […]

Branded merchandise always comes with eco-friendly labels now. About 53% of these green claims are built on vague or misleading data, and most of that information has never actually been verified by anyone. Businesses order promotional products all of the time, and occasionally they'll receive tote bags that are covered in leaf symbols with sustainable […]

SA8000 tracks more than 3,700 locations across 61 different countries, and WRAP had already certified 1,700 factories by 2008 with its strict zero-tolerance policies. The Fair Wear Foundation works with over 120 clothing brands at this point. Businesses can only display their logo if they score above 75% and achieve what they call Leader status. […]