This year more than any other that I can recall has been one that we have done a lot of products specifically for T.V shows. Our products can now be regularly seen on the desks of presenters and morning shows as well as a few reality shows this year much to our pride. Despite the fact that computers and tablet has taken up a lot of our leisure time the humble T.V is still a huge medium that has a reach of millions on any given day. If you are hosting a conference or perhaps you are a charity or a sporting organisation then chances are you will be facing a television camera. The coverage may be an impromptu interview or it may be a carefully staged television appearance. Either way branded merchandise in an age where corporate sponsorship for events that can be worth millions it makes sense to have a range of promotional products on the ready for the individual to wear to really maximise your marketing value.

We recently sent one of our team members (me ;) ) to Hong Kong where there was a huge (& I mean an entire soccer field x 3 times) worth of endless booths and exhibitors. The booths housed manufacturers as well as supporting industries like freight forwarding and other services for products in our industry namely, promotional stationery, custom gifts & premiums, branded toys, and brand exposure products (or promotional products). The entire show was a global hotbed of ideas and I was pleased to also bump into a competitor too! It is good to know that some of our competitors care enough which is only a good thing for our industry and definitely a good thing for our customers in getting really cool stuff at an even better price.

1. Source ethical factories for better products.
2. Reduce carbon footprint with streamlined production.

I am strongly against illegally downloading media. Things such as movies, music and games are items that I will never ever consider downloading. The reason is that for any product to be produced it takes a huge amount of effort to produce and a huge amount of risk and investment to even get the project started. To simply have all this effort and risk not rewarded by having an individual go through some obscure computer website to look and find content to download illegally to me is a little unethical and a little selfish.

In saying all this unfortunately I feel that I am in the minority. Many people think it is perfectly okay to illegally download mediums like books, games, movies and music. This puts a huge dent into the revenue stream of companies that put the money in to create content. You may not care about the revenue stream of a company but you will definitely care when the quality of music, movies and games start to deteriorate. For todays blog topic I wanted to focus