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2021 Promo Supplier of the Year: Gemline
As COVID-19 ravaged the industry, Gemline defied the odds by generating record-breaking revenue, increasing its philanthropic endeavors and becoming distributors’ go-to choice for promo’s hottest new category.
Gemline crushed 2020.
The Lawrence, MA-based Top 40 supplier didn’t just survive the single most challenging year in the history of the promotional products industry. It achieved record company sales, provided more philanthropic support than ever to worthy causes and increased U.S. staffing levels by about 30% to 500 people. It also forged five new retail brand partnerships, made a major acquisition, and launched more than 250 new products and related services that were vital to distributor customers, including all-important PPE lines and kitting solutions.
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Jim Wellehan
The Maine Climate Council released its plan to achieve an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. It may sound like an ambitious plan, but one that Maine – and the world – will have a very damaged and difficult future without; a world that you would not want to inflict on your children and grandchildren.
As both an individual and a business owner, I have worked to cut carbon emissions since the Copenhagen Conference in 2009, committing to cutting our carbon emissions 50% in 10 years. It was an ambitious goal, but fun to work to achieve. We moved to LED bulbs in most applications, Low E windows in every remodel, vestibule entrances to provide an extra door, heavier insulation, including two R-50 roofs, lower temperature settings in the winter, and higher in the summer, signing up for clean energy providers, and having all company vehicles be either hybrid or designed to cut exhaust pollution dramatically.
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