Chris Blakeslee moves to Gap owned brand Athleta, he will take over as President and CEO. Athleta sells on-line and in retail locations and is not in the imprinted sportswear industry per se. Chris being one of the more interesting folks in our industry will be surely missed. He formerly was running Bella+Canvas and Alo…
The Teamsters and UPS have a five year contract agreement and a paralyzing shipping strike was averted. Key elements with of course more details to follow are AC in the trucks, increased pay and better job protection and workplace conditions in particular for part-timers and those loading the trucks, MLK holiday, and other concessions from…
Mark Lane, the CEO of Coed Sportswear, talks about the highs and lows of running Coed Naked, one of the hottest retail t-shirt brands of the 1990s, in this Shop Talk from the Impressions Expo in Atlantic City. He discusses how the company went from selling over 10 million shirts in 12,000 stores to nearly…
Wastewater from our factory in Pawtucket, RI is discharged to the sewer system which leads to the Narragansett Bay Commission’s (NBC) wastewater treatment facility (WWTF) in East Providence, located along the Seekonk River. The NBC regulates our factory’s discharges through a wastewater discharge permit. Compliance with our permit helps to ensure that the wastewater received…
UPS and the Teamsters union representing 340,000 workers are in negotiations for a new contract. The Teamsters are demanding some better working conditions and some higher pay. The current contract expires July 31, 2023 and the union members have already overwhelmingly voted to authorize the Teamster leaders to call a strike if necessary. Our garment…
You would be hard pressed to find two individuals who care more about providing free screen printing information and education to as many people as possible than our own Rick Roth and legendary flatstock printer Andy Mac aka Andy MacDougall. (You’d also be hard pressed to find two funner people to have a beer or…
Consider this: a customer, let’s call her Jane, wants a specific design – a vibrant orange and red sunset bleeding into the cool indigo of a bustling city skyline. The skyscrapers should glisten with the last rays of the day, while the city begins to twinkle with nightlife. She mentions that she loves the impressionistic…
We love gathering the garment decoration industry’s best and brightest to discuss the future of the industry and we have them here in this Shop Talk. Alex Phelan of Merchadise , Jacob Edwards of Jakprints , Michelle Moxley of M&R and Ed Levy of Hirsch Solutions joined Rick at the Impressions Expo in Long Beach…
MidJourney is so cool. It’s open-ended, gives you a dopamine hit with its speed and randomness. I can force genres out of it, and famous images. I can feed it source images and get pretty cool stylizations. I can even /blend images and /describe images. For the most part, MidJourney is an exploration of the…
Starting a side hustle is one thing, growing that side hustle into a dedicated screen print shop is another. Most vendors and media focus on newcomers or big shops, but in this Shop Talk Rick and YouTuber and business coach StanBanks talk about what you need to do and what you need to consider to grow…
