(Editor’s Note: PromoWire by PPAI Media is a running digest of news releases and updates submitted from organizations around the promotional products industry. PPAI Media edits these only slightly, including for length, and will consider newsworthy entries from any member organization.)

March 28, 2023

Proforma’s Million Dollar Club Event Applauds 2022’s Record-Breaking Sales


Proforma (PPAI 196835, D13) celebrated 2022’s sales performances at its Million Dollar Club event at The Vinoy Renaissance Resort & Golf Club in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Ohio-based distributor hosted 350 of its owners and their guests, 45 supplier partners and more than 60 support center team members to mark close to $500 million in collective sales.

  • This year’s event was the largest Million Dollar Club event in the company’s history.
  • Individual companies within the Proforma community reported annual sales ranging from $1 million to almost $50 million in 2022.
     

At the event’s awards ceremony, Proforma acknowledged the achievements of its top-performing distributor owners and supplier partners, as well as nearly 50 new and next-level members of the Million Dollar Club.

“The best part about this event is having the opportunity to hear firsthand accounts of success from the largest gathering of Million Dollar Club performers in the industry,” said Proforma Chief Sales Officer Greg Armstrong. “Also, the ideas exchanged about our technology and business support programs will continue to propel our distributor owners to future record-breaking growth and their next levels of achievement.”

March 24, 2023

PTG Announces Second Facility Location

Pic The Gift (PTG) has announced its expansion to a second new facility in Wentzville, Missouri. The new building boasts 72,000 square feet, which will support the company's growth by adding additional manufacturing and warehousing capacity.

  • PTG has been in their main facility since 2019, which is located in St. Louis with 50,000 square feet. Overall, the company employs 150 full-time employees.
  • PTG is excited for the new location to both warehouse and produce all types of orders starting this month. The facility was originally used for sewing only and will now have the capability to print, press, cut and sew the majority of items PTG has to offer.

Longtime Outdoor Cap Rep Lisa Hawkins Announces Retirement

Lisa Hawkins, Outdoor Cap (PPAI 213485, S10) outside sales rep over Idaho and Oregon, has announced her retirement.

  • Lisa has proudly served Outdoor Cap for 15 years.
  • Randy Snyder, already representing Alaska, Montana and Washington, will take on Hawkins’ states.

March 23, 2023

Zing Hires Regional Sales Director

  • Parker Stephens, formerly of T-Shirt Tycoon, has joined Zing Manufacturing (PPAI 517185, S7) as its regional sales director for Texas, serving industry distributors in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas as well as the National Sales Manager for BDA.

SanMar Reaccredits Social Compliance Program

SanMar (PPAI 110788, S16) announced the Fair Labor Association (FLA) has reaccredited the company’s social compliance program. The decision demonstrates SanMar’s continued commitment to advancing better labor conditions throughout its global supply chain.

  • SanMar’s sourcing network spans over 100 facilities in 21 countries. The FLA’s decision follows a multi-year review of the company’s mechanisms to ensure these facilities are in compliance with international labor standards.
  • As the only comprehensive program of its kind based on international frameworks, the Fair Labor Accreditation holds companies to the highest standards in labor rights. SanMar first earned its Fair Labor Accreditation in 2012.
  • “SanMar is honored to build on our decade-long legacy of accreditation with FLA,” said Jeremy Lott, CEO of SanMar. “Our people are our top priority, and the work we do with supplier relationships, data management and workplace training are critical steps toward setting a high standard for labor rights in the apparel industry.”

Facilisgroup's Latest Integration Automates Promotional Product Operations Across Sales Channels

Facilisgroup (PPAI 493664) has announced an integration between its flagship sales and operations suite, Syncore, and its new online store platform, Commercio. The integration between the two systems allows distributors to efficiently process online and offline orders in one place.

  • Online orders from Commercio Company Stores now flow into Syncore’s order processing system automatically in real time. Previously, distributors had to manually rekey data from online stores into their order processing system, which was error-prone and extremely slow.
  • Barrett Hubbard, CEO of DLA Promotions and Facilisgroup client, described the process they used before the integration. “Our team was having to manually grab orders from a company store, turn around and enter them into a spreadsheet, process them and almost turn them into a mini dropship order. But now we don’t have to do that,” he says. “Those are the types of things that are very, very challenging to an organization when trying to scale.”
  • Integration highlights include: two-way data sync that ensures orders are updated continuously in both systems; imported orders automatically sync in real time and can be processed quickly without rekeying data; and easy setup that requires no technical resources.