If you receive an unexpected ’order’ from a university or similar insisting on 30 days terms (particularly from the University of Greenwich), it may be worth checking out this nasty scam before fulfilling the order.

On the 26th January 2017 Customer Focus announced that the Promotional Products Expo (PPE – Formerly the Trade Only National Show) is to close after the final show in January 2017.

Altitude Group plc have announced the following leadership and board changes with effect from 1 February 2017. Martin Varley to become Group President and Sanjay Lobo to join as Managing Director.

Fluid Branding are delighted that they built on 2015’s second place win to take the top spot in the 2016 Sourcing City Awards. The Sourcing City Annual Awards are a way for suppliers and distributors within the promotional merchandise industry to vote for their top companies to work with.

Sourcing City have announced that a brand new Version 5 of their market leading online trade sourcing service will be launched before the end of February 2017. The new features will include; crisp & clean layout, faster searching, easier filtering, Express Products search, a new mobile friendly version and Image Search.

Sourcing City have published the Promotional Merchandise Industry Market Report for 2016. The report has been created to provide a global picture of the industry today and provides a detailed analysis of the statistics and trends in the Promotional Merchandise Industry (UK & Ireland) in 2016 and past years.