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Return of Live Events Powering Promo Sales
Distributors aren’t back to pre-pandemic levels yet with sales related to events, but the growing number of in-person activities is fueling business.
Chris Ferriter was stoked to be in this kind of rush again.
When an NBA team learned it could have more fans in attendance at its home playoff games than initially expected, the franchise turned to Ferriter’s Miami-based promotional products distributorship SoBe Promos (asi/245603) to provide large quantities of branded T-shirts to give away in the arena.
It was a rush job with a no-room-for-error deadline, but Ferriter couldn’t have been happier for it.
State & Regional Sales Report
Business was down all across the United States in 2020, but these strategies and trends will help you find success right now, no matter where you sell.
2020 U.S. Promotional Products Sales Revenue
$20.7 billion -19.8% decline
ASI Media’s annual State and Regional Sales Report typically takes the long view. But like with everything else, the pandemic has changed things. While the future still matters, at this moment distributors are concerned with the right here and now. Which states are opening up? What events are returning? Which markets are ready to buy?
That’s where our report comes in. Our exclusive data reveals which states and regions proved the most resilient for selling promo. Likewise, our reporting offers the strategies, products and trends that are going to propel distributors as the U.S. eyes perhaps a soaring economic expansion.
FedEx Becomes A Promo Products Distributor
The shipping giant’s FedEx Office subsidiary has launched a website from which it’s selling brandable merchandise to end-clients across industries.
FedEx has entered the promotional products business.
FedEx Office, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. that sells printing, packing and shipping services, has launched an ecommerce website in which anyone – from small businesses and schools, to corporations, nonprofits, healthcare systems and more – can have their logo put on a range of promotional products, purchase the items, and have them shipped to locations of their choosing.
The homepage of FedEx Office’s promo products-selling site.