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Sara Lavenduski

  • Executive Director, Client Education & Content

Sara covers strategy for ASI’s readers in the U.S. and Canada, including sales & marketing, health & wellbeing and product trends.

Wild Impact Marketing Acquires Spectrum Resources

Waukesha, WI-based Wild Impact Marketing (asi/360200) has acquired Muskego, WI-based...

New Apple HQ Offers Exclusive Merch

Six years and $5 billion later, Apple's massive new headquarters in Cupertino, CA,...

Minimum Wages to Rise Across the Country this Week

A number of workers in America will be ringing in the New Year with a wage hike on...

Facebook to Curtail ‘Engagement Bait’

Facebook continues to crack down on what it deems non-authentic interaction on its...

Prime Line’s Shulman Stepping Down

Top 40 supplier Prime Line (asi/79530) has announced that Paula Shulman will step...

S&S Activewear Opens Fort Worth Location

Top 40 supplier S&S Activewear's (asi/84358) new distribution center in Fort...

CPSC Recalls Carabiners, Children’s PJs

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued an official recall for...

Economy Watch: October Housing Numbers Exceed Expectations

Homebuilding rates in the U.S. increased in October, halting several months of...

CPSC Recalls Children’s Outerwear

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued official recalls for...

CPSC Recalls Children’s Sleepwear

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued official recalls for...

Cimpress Reports Sales; Plans to Cut Vistaprint Jobs

Top 40 distributor Cimpress (asi/162149), owner of Vistaprint and National Pen,...

Distributor Salesperson of the Year Finalist: Sharon Mann, GE Distribution Services

The Advantages Distributor Salesperson of the Year and award finalists were...

Distributor Salesperson of the Year Finalist: Jacques Marais, Creative Marketing Concepts

The Advantages Distributor Salesperson of the Year and award finalists were...

Distributor Salesperson of the Year Finalist: Diane Ciepiela, CIC

The Advantages Distributor Salesperson of the Year and award finalists were...

Distributor Salesperson of the Year Finalist: Tricia Murray, Staples Promotional Products

The Advantages Distributor Salesperson of the Year and award finalists were...

Distributor Salesperson of the Year Finalist: Aaron Greenberg, Genumark

The Advantages Distributor Salesperson of the Year and award finalists were...

Something Old, Something New

This PR rep-turned-distributor combines traditional and new strategies to create buzz f...

Promo Apparel Trends By Age

With retail styles now widely available, the promotional products industry can offer st...

Legal Cannabis Bill Passes Canadian House, Heads to Senate

Full-scale legalization of marijuana is one step closer to becoming a reality in...

*NSYNC to Release ’90s-Inspired Branded Merch

Millennials, rejoice! Iconic '90s boy band *NSYNC will be teaming up with global...

Stormtech Welcomes New Canadian Sales Manager

Stormtech Performance Apparel (asi/89869) announces that industry veteran Mike Oliver...

Case Study: Leveraging LinkedIn

Harnessing the power of this social media platform has taken one distributor’s sales sk...

Legal Cannabis Producers in Canada Propose Advertising Standards

The debate continues in Canada over how marijuana will be promoted and advertised to...

Report: Amazon to Offer Its Own Private-Label Athletic Apparel

Amazon's massive growth is showing no sign of slowing down, and now the e-commerce...

Canadian Promo Market News – September/October 2017

Starline Industries (asi/89213) welcomes Alex Jovetic as the company's new vice...