by MCM Marketing Team on June 29, 2010
We road warriors just retuned from some air travel and TSA is just not making life any easier. Yes, they are doing an important job but with the airlines charging exorbitant fees for checked bags you really need to pack in a way to optimize your passage through the security check point particularly if you [...]
by MCM Marketing Team on June 10, 2010
Hot off the wire, California bans the use of plastic bags in grocery, liquor, convenience and drug stores. It also requires customers to pay for the store provided papers bags. The new law will go into effect in January of 2012. By itself this is really important news, but you really need to look at [...]
by MCM Marketing Team on May 27, 2010
Recently our good friends at Foodell.com purchased some promotional shopping bags from us. We advised them to look at the laminated recycled bags that are featured in our 2-18-2010 post. These clients are savvy marketers and they saw the value of the stock design imprinted with their logo. Promotional shopping bags are really hot right now [...]
by MCM Marketing Team on March 10, 2010
Wine has really come of age in America. It wasn’t that long ago that wine was visualized as that straw wrapped bottle of Chianti or that odd shaped Mateus Rose. US wine consumption is growing at 14% and it’s an opportunity that should not be missed particularly with more people bringing wine to the restaurant [...]
by MCM Marketing Team on February 18, 2010
Can you get excited about a shopping bag? We think you can. Just think back a couple of years ago when 100’s of millions of us simply walked out of stores carrying all of our goods in plastic. The issues to our environment are staggering. It is calculated that we are using over 1,000,000 per [...]
by MCM Marketing Team on December 19, 2009
Banner bags, recycled totes, recycled billboard totes… everyone calls them by a different name but I am getting ahead of myself. Each year thousands of artistically designed banners, billboards and truck tarpaulins are created and summarily tossed in landfills. These PVC and polypropylene materials do not biodegrade and become an environmental blight. Don’t despair, we [...]