Sourcing City Awards 2026: voting is now open
The industry's own awards are back. Suppliers vote for distributors, distributors vote for suppliers, and voting closes on Friday 27 November 2026.
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BPMA Announces Shortlists for the Marketing Campaign Awards 2026
The British Promotional Merchandise Association (BPMA) is delighted to announce the shortlist for the BPMA Marketing Campaign Awards 2026, recognising outstanding creativity, strategic thinking and measurable success in promotional marketing.
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Web Shops: a smarter way for your clients to order promotional merchandise
Sourcing City builds and hosts branded Web Shops that distributors run for their clients. Today they serve clients in 14 industries, from builders merchants to online casinos.
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New Merchandise World website puts the numbers first
The Merchandise World website has relaunched, 85 days before the show opens at CBS Arena, Coventry, on Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 January 2027.
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BPMA Product Awards 2026 Shortlist Announced
The quality of entries submitted for this year’s BPMA Product Awards has been truly outstanding, with suppliers showcasing the very best in…
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UK consumers rate promotional merchandise above every other form of advertising
New research from ASI, presented at the GXN Annual Conference in Kitzbühel this month, puts the UK among the most receptive markets in Europe for promotional merchandise. It also shows, quite precisely, what turns a welcome item into one that gets kept.
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GXN Conference 2026 in Kitzbühel Marks a Milestone for the Global Promotional Products Industry
Industry leaders adopt the Kitzbühel Declaration 2030, setting out eight guiding principles under GXN’s One Voice Initiative.
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Mountains of data and the five percent that’s broken
Suppliers send the style, the colour and the price. The decoration half of the order still arrives by email, one order at a time. At the GXN Annual Conference in Kitzbühel, a panel on data standards asked who fills that gap, and what it would take to close it.
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Industry Research · White Paper No. 05 – The Intelligent Supplier
Two suppliers can carry the same number of products on Sourcing City, and one of them will earn seventeen times the distributor enquiries of the other. A new white paper, published today, examines what separates them.
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Haptica unveils its new brand identity
The Haptica brand is presenting a fresh, new image. With immediate effect, one single, easily distinguishable logo applies for all Haptica products and channels – across all print, online and live formats.
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