Mark Venit stopped in for a visit in St. Clair Shores last week. He had some clients he was consulting with in Michigan and decided to drop by between appointments. For the past several months, in addition to his consulting work, Mark has been busy downloading his marketing experience in the decorated apparel industry into [...]

There have always been team sponsors, but what do you do when you have more than one?  How do you put all the names on the jersey? This is one trend we noticed that keeps growing, both here in the United States as well as in Europe. The folks at Stahls’ European Deco facility sent [...]

I just read on Josh Ellsworth’s blog that Impressions Magazine has added the category of “Most Creative Use of Heat Applied Graphics” in its annual Impressions Awards.  This is fantastic news, since we have been actively promoting heat printing products and services since 1932. Better late than never, as they say. We are thrilled. Maybe it is because heat printing [...]

If you’re working this weekend you probably should consider yourself lucky, but then again, you probably want to get out and enjoy yourself as well. If you need help creating artwork, more and more garment decorators are discovering CADWorxlive.com. CADWorxlive.com is GroupeSTAHL’s free online artwork creation website. If you still haven’t checked it out yet, [...]

The industry’s first draw/swinger press with EZ-Touch Screen technology, EZ-On platen for fast shirt loading and other ultimate ease of use features. One or more patents or patents pending! If you’re heading to the Imprinted Sportswear Show in Atlantic City this weekend, you’ll be one of the first in the industry to see the new [...]

If you’ve ever been to a pep rally, you have to admit that when large groups of people all rally behind one particular team, all wear the same team colors, paint their faces, wave pom-poms and foam fingers, the enthusiasm is contagious, even if you aren’t the cheerleader type. During the recent Winter Olympics, I [...]

Yes, those are boat docks in the background and this is how this whole thing got started. We were doing some repairs to the docks, much easier when you have solid ice to stand on, and we had some leftover wood we needed to get rid of. A good friend said that it’s no problem [...]

We might have to continue our predictions into February, since the month of January is pretty much over…how did that happen? January went by quickly, with a lot happening around GroupeSTAHL, the PPAI show in Las Vegas, the Imprinted Sportswear Show in Long Beach, the launching of CAD-CUT Direct.com, …I didn’t even have a chance [...]

Predictions for the future of the promotional products industry–at least those I gleaned from GroupeSTAHL people who had the opportunity to attend the show in Las Vegas last week–sound extremely positive.  Takeaways include: “Wow, this place is packed!” There are lines of people waiting to get in every morning and heavy traffic in both our [...]

Thanks for all the positive feedback I’ve been getting on this series of predictions for 2010 from GroupeSTAHL people around the world. So far we’ve heard from Brian Baker, Product Research and Development, Josh Ellsworth,  Stahls’ CADCUT Direct and Ulrike Andre, Stahls’ International. Now I have a submission from David Wheatley, who has been with [...]