There has been some big news in the promotional products industry since our last update.  Bullet Line has decide to stop offering custom embroidered hats effectively immediately.  This comes just a few months after heavily promoting these same hats in the 2010 catalog.  The net result is a lot of aggravated distributors.  Many were left in a lurch with orders in process while the announcement was made and had to absorb increased costs getting jobs done locally.

The holidays are rapidly approaching and one of the favored gifts at this time of year as always is custom 1gb usb flash drives.  The smaller size of the 1gb drives has kept cost down over larger versions and truth be told the 1gb capacity is fine for almost every use.  The 1gb size is plenty to store huge amounts of data files and thousands of images even at the highest of resolutions.  This size will also store up to fifteen minutes of HD video.  If the end user is going to need greater capacity 2 and 4gb models are now readily available but also a bit more expensive.

In larger news American Apparel has so far managed to stay operating.  A couple of years ago Broder went through a similar difficulty and has emerged a much stronger company.  Norwood also had the same difficulties and is stronger today than ever.