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Retailers: Hoteliers of the Future

Smart Meetings

Brands known for being luxury watchmakers, specialists in home decor and pushers of simple apparel are all trying their hand in the hospitality industry. The hospitality industry is booming, and retailers are taking notice. As consumer’s expectations for quality products and service continue to heighten, so is their demand for an engaging experience. Event planners know this world well, as what’s expected of them from attendees is no different.

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The 4 Ticketing Features You Need for Your Holiday Events

Showclix

Drive revenue while adding convenience for your customers by selling additional items and perks alongside your tickets, like premium parking passes, family photo packages, and apparel including branded mittens, hats, and more. Each year, holiday events around the world draw in huge crowds of excited families and friends ready to celebrate the season.

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How Artist-Centric Music Experiences Are Amplifying Experiential Opportunities

Event Marketer

The curated program features classic, rare and never-before-seen collectibles, apparel, music releases and photos. The Bowie 75 pop-ups offers classic, rare and never-before-seen collectibles, apparel, music releases and photos.

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Is Sustainable Swag Really Possible?

MeetingsNet

If you give away apparel, look for products made of ethically sourced, organic material. Cost: $58 to $118 per item for apparel; $98 to $148 per pair for footwear Promotional products companies are coming out with more giveaways that you can feel good about.

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How RFID is making ‘waves’ at events today

Event Industry News

These tags are placed in badges, wristbands, apparel, and other wearable technology […]. A discrete form of wearable technology, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is commonly used for tracking and access control, without imposing on a guest’s event experience. RFID functions through the use of radio waves that create communication between an RFID-enabled tag and a reader. The post How RFID is making ‘waves’ at events today appeared first on Event Industry News.

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ComplexLand 2.0: Complex Networks Upgrades its Virtual Event Strategy to Better Engage Fans—and Brands

Event Marketer

available on mobile and desktop, attendees first chose an avatar and outfitted it with generic apparel. The new feature helped amplify Farfetch’s sponsorship by showcasing its apparel not just within the confines of the ComplexLand platform, but all across social media.

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How Soma Intimates Uses Pop-ups to Inform Future Product Designs

Event Marketer

Since its establishment in 2004, intimates apparel brand Soma has built more than 250 boutiques and outlets in locations nationwide, but New York City isn’t one of them. Soma’s top regional bra-fit specialists were enlisted for the pop-up experience.

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CTICC launches an all-inclusive sport and wellness exhibition, AllSport Expo

Event Industry News

Visitors can win loads of prizes in exhibitor competitions during the expo, as well as discounts on packages from various sporting institutes, apparel items, wellness partners and gyms.

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Trending event swag

Eventinterface

Cotton is making a comeback in apparel with items like polos. We’ve seen more requests for cotton apparel in the last six months trending over and above performance wicking shirts. Dress shirts and golf shirts are still popular but numbers show cotton apparel is still in the lead. Be on the cutting edge and make a splash at your next trade show or conference with these trending promotional products. DRINKWARE GAINS VALUE.

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Bringing your Ideas to Life is Our Business Mission

Ins'Tent

The Client: MBStix Apparel. MBStix Apparel is a small business in Philly founded by two athletic women, Mary Scharle and Meredith Shapiro. Scharle and Shapiro founded MBStix Apparel in the Fall of 2015. In efforts to promote their business to the next level, MBStix Apparel needed a tent to attend a fitness expo in Florida. These ladies began by creating stickman shirts for their workout days in efforts to motivate each other.

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4 Foolproof Tactics to Generate Event Buzz

Smart Meetings

A custom apparel platform can make these early-bird sales easier to manage by moving it all online, giving you a big picture view of sales, processing payments and shipping the items directly to customers. Kevin Penney is CMO and co-founder of Bonfire.com , a company that’s reinventing how people create, sell and purchase custom apparel.

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Online Activewear Brand POPFLEX Launches its First-ever Pop-up Shop Experience

Event Marketer

POPFLEX team members and brand ambassadors also model the apparel and their various features in Instagram posts and TikTok videos. POPFLEX introduced its first puffer coat at the pop-up, along with other activewear items from its newest line.

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How Four Brands are Celebrating Halloween with Metaverse Activations

Event Marketer

The apparel includes exclusive avatar items like sunglasses and cosplay hats, and virtual replicas of two Halloween clothing items the brand is selling IRL. From the sweet taste of candy to heart-stopping jump scares, Halloween is often viewed as a sensorial occasion best celebrated in the flesh. But for brands interested in scaling the reach of their campaigns and budget dollars, and testing the waters of the metaverse, digital holiday activations present a viable option.

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Moving Toward Mainstream MetaVerse

Canadian Special Events

After more than 15 years in the apparel industry managing accounts for some of the world’s largest designers like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Vanity Fair Corp, Jason was ready for a change.

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Audio-centric Activations: Five Strategies Worth a Listen

Event Marketer

Visitors could snag never-before-seen collectibles, apparel, music and photos, and attend curated events, partake in social media moments and even leave personal tribute messages to the artist.

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Creative tips, tricks, and ideas to build memorable swag bags for events

Socio Events

For this idea, there’s free range on what exactly you could include, but here are a few ideas: Discount codes for your products or services Branded swag and apparel Coffee 2. Branded apparel bag We know people want wearable promotional swag, so run with it!

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How the KFCourt is Tapping into Canadians’ Love of Basketball—and Fried Chicken

Event Marketer

Behind the Scenes of NBC’s Winter Wonderland Activation Fans Put Under Armour’s ColdGear Apparel to the Test at the World’s First ‘Ice Gym’ Five Steal-worthy Ideas for Cold Weather Outdoor Activations Upon arrival, attendees sign a waiver, then receive a pre-warmed basketball.

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Coke Adds Flavor to its Long-Running Houston Rodeo Sponsorship with a Texas-Style Ice House

Event Marketer

The Ice House activation was designed to be shareable, sustainable and flexible.

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Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island

Canadian Special Events

After more than 15 years in the apparel industry managing accounts for some of the world’s largest designers like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Vanity Fair Corp, Jason was ready for a change.

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Five Steal-worthy Ideas for Cold Weather Outdoor Activations

Event Marketer

There’s no better contingency plan than fresh air, and while many markets are under a deep freeze, winter has never deterred brands from perfecting engagement for bundled up consumers. Here we offer five tips for making the most of cold weather outdoor activations. Go Under the Dome.

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How Personalized Face Masks Boosted Branded Awareness

Ins'Tent

Many apparel stores took the liberty of creating their masks. Custom logo face masks were not only sold by apparel shops, but also in sports teams memorabilia stores and schools such as universities.

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The Best of Louisville: Shopping

Connect Your Meetings

Scout specializes in stylish home décor and gifts, Please & Thank You is a café and record shop, Revelry curates jewelry and apparel by local artists, Joe Ley Antiques fills an 1890s schoolhouse with treasures, Peace of the Earth sells locally made bath goodies and BLoFISH hawks gender-neutral clothes. Louisville, Kentucky, is recognized as an international destination for festival events—most notably the Kentucky Derby—and conferences like Connect 2019.

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Covid in China Could Affect Event-Merchandise Orders

MeetingsNet

Electronic items and accessories, apparel and hats, bags and cases, and other items commonly used as gifts and giveaways at meetings, trade shows, and incentive programs could require more time for fulfillment and shipping from China—or might need to be obtained from elsewhere.

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Coors Teams up with Brixton to Host an Intimate Benefit Concert Supporting Firefighters

Event Marketer

The collection focuses on cut and sew apparel, headwear and accessories that draw from Coors’ heritage, with designs that pay homage to the firefighters risking their lives across the West Coast.

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How Experiential Tactics are Ushering in a Brick-and-Mortar Retail Revival

Event Marketer

There, visitors can pick up and play any Gibson Brands product under the sun, appreciate an overhead conveyer belt of 200 guitars, view celebrated music memorabilia, shop apparel and accessories, build a custom guitar and, throughout the journey, learn Gibson’s brand history.

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How the First Major B2B Trade Show So Far in 2021 Pulled It Off

PCMA Convene

One exhibitor, Los Angeles­–based apparel company Psycho Tuna, found attending the show worth it, even though its vice president, Patricia Thornton, had to quarantine for 10 days upon return to California. “I

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Raccoon Media Group expands Outdoor Expo portfolio into Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Prestige Events Magazine

This expansion will serve new active outdoor audiences to brands who provide gear, technology, apparel, nutrition and will be a celebration of every outdoor activity including climbing, hiking, mountain biking, camping, trail running, swimming, SUP and more.

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3 Perfect Swag Bag Ideas for Event Organizers that Convert in 2019

EventBank Insights

Quick Links Strong Impact | Clothing Good Impact | Gadgets Ok Impact | Stationery Clothing & Apparel Swag Bags Clothing is one of the best swag bag ideas that are both useful and long-lasting. doesn't always have to be a t-shirt either, for example, you could give away:Hats Slides/Flip-flops Sunglasses Tote-bags Wallets Neck Pillow (if you know attendees are flying in from out of town) The Strategy For apparel, the strategy is quite clear.

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Pepsi’s Permanent Installation at Hersheypark Turns Visitors into Pop Stars

Event Marketer

Just like the tracks available in the dance pods, the apparel will be updated each season. Consumers enter a solo pod, where they use their own gestures to power the Pepsi Pop Star experience. How do you lure amusement park fans away from the adrenaline-inducing thrill rides they seek?

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Where to Donate Unused Event Materials After Cancellations

PCMA Convene

For example, we partner with the NFL every year to donate the apparel items from runner-up teams in the Super Bowl, NFC, and AFC championship games.”. The nonprofit Good360 will take certain unused items from events recently cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak and resulting restrictions.

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Deck the Halls with Free Holiday Cutout Characters

BizBash

We even put a couple dogs in festive apparel, although they were much more agreeable about it. . We always go the extra mile for you here at eLearning Brothers. If that means risking life and limb to get a photo of a cat in a Christmas sweater for your holiday cutout character needs…we’ll do it! In fact, we put TWO cats in holiday outfits—that’s how much we love our eLearning Brothers members.

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How Five Brands Supported the LGBTQ+ Community with In-person Experiences

Event Marketer

H&M turned to technology to help consumers celebrate Pride this year with a scanner app that detects rainbow patterns on everything from flags to food to apparel. Brands did their best to commemorate Pride Month virtually in 2020.

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5 Best Practices for Designing Event Merchandise

Attendease

He’s the CMO and co-founder of Bonfire , an online platform that’s reinventing the way people create, sell and purchase custom apparel. You’ve decided on the type of event you’re going to hold. You’re ready to start spreading the word on your organization’s social media accounts. You’re crafting a registration landing page that any attendee will find easy to use.The only thing missing is memorable merchandise that will commemorate your event and spread the word about your organization.

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Swag of the Future: Hybrid-Ready, Safe and Responsible

Smart Meetings

Laurie Amigo, strategic branding director at Halo, notes that apparel branding expanded to shirt collars and shoulders so that company and event logos were visible for virtual meetings. So, what’s in store for swag , now that in-person events are slowly, steadily returning to the landscape?

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“The Event Innovation Lab”

Canadian Special Events

After more than 15 years in the apparel industry managing accounts for some of the world’s largest designers like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Vanity Fair Corp, Jason was ready for a change.

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Paris is Beautiful This Time of Year

Canadian Special Events

After more than 15 years in the apparel industry managing accounts for some of the world’s largest designers like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Vanity Fair Corp, Jason was ready for a change. This is one of the most beautifully designed rooms I’ve seen in a long time.

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The Night Oven Bakery, Saskatoon

Canadian Special Events

After more than 15 years in the apparel industry managing accounts for some of the world’s largest designers like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Vanity Fair Corp, Jason was ready for a change.

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Authentic Italian at Quadros

Canadian Special Events

After more than 15 years in the apparel industry managing accounts for some of the world’s largest designers like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Vanity Fair Corp, Jason was ready for a change.

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A Whimsical Fairy And Butterfly Party by Lux Affairs Event Design & Decor

Canadian Special Events

After more than 15 years in the apparel industry managing accounts for some of the world’s largest designers like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, and Vanity Fair Corp, Jason was ready for a change.

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A Short Guide to Dye Sublimation

Ins'Tent

If you’re in the market looking to get custom printed promotional gifts, apparel, or even tents and displays for your business, dye sublimation is a great option. This printing technique is great for fabric surfaces from apparel, to promotional flags, canopies, and pop-up tents, etc.

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