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Fleur du Mal makes underwear worth wearing out
Jennifer Zuccarini built a fashion label around a mischievous proposition: the best thing under your clothes might deserve an audience. Keeping that proposition alive required some decidedly unromantic lessons in cash, fit and restraint.
The Print Factory Bet That One Vendor Could Print the Whole Brand
A business card, a tent and an embroidered polo look like separate errands. This Ontario print shop built its proposition on making them one conversation.
The Little California Shop That Will Stitch One Shirt - or One Thousand
Most decorators want volume. 5 Star Apparel built its pitch around the awkward orders - one cap, a school fundraiser, a firehouse patch, then the thousand-piece run.
Advertising Edge and the small decisions that make a shirt worth wearing
A Santee merchandise company offers a useful lesson in branding: the logo is only part of the order. Fit, quantity, artwork and the date on the calendar do much of the work.
APG puts your business on paper. And on the truck.
From business cards to vehicle wraps, Advanced Printing & Graphics turns a company’s identity into things people can hold, wear and spot across the street. Its pitch is continuity: one creative idea, carried through production.
IQ Graphics makes the neighborhood look good
From restaurant menus to storefront lettering, this family-owned San Diego shop turns business identities into things people can hold, wear, and spot from the street.
How a Sewing Machine Company From Nagoya Became the Printer in Your Home Office
It prints your shipping labels, hems your curtains, and turns the motors on a factory line. Brother has spent 70 years in America being useful in ways most people never connect to the same company.
The Company Behind One in Three Sewing Machines on Earth
SINGER, PFAFF, and HUSQVARNA VIKING sit under one Nashville roof. Together they sell about a third of the world's household sewing machines - and they are betting the next stitch is a cloud subscription.
Branded Bills
Branded Bills is an Arizona-based premium headwear and apparel company that started in a garage in 2015 with a branding iron, a knife, and a leather patch hat. It grew from one-of-one state-pride caps into a direct-to-consumer and business-to-business brand offering custom and stock hats, apparel, and corporate branding. The company has sold more than $50 million of product, employs roughly 200 people, and operates the first Branded Bills retail store inside the Phoenix Suns' Footprint Center.
Custom Ink
Custom Ink is an online retailer that lets anyone design and order custom apparel and promotional products - t-shirts, hoodies, hats, drinkware and swag - without order minimums or design software. Founded in 2000 in a Virginia basement, the company built an easy online Design Lab plus human design and support help, turning group orders for teams, schools, businesses, nonprofits and events into a business that has grown to roughly $500 million in revenue. It has since expanded into corporate swag management through acquisitions like Swag.com and Printfection.
The Icebox Cool Stuff
The Icebox Cool Stuff is an Atlanta-based, full-service branded merchandise and custom apparel agency founded in 2001 on the belief that promotional products can actually be cool. It handles the whole chain - creative design, product sourcing, in-house decorating, warehouse fulfillment, company-store management and global distribution - for corporate clients ranging from Delta Air Lines to Google. Roughly 150 employees work across three locations and 150,000+ square feet of warehouse space, serving brands that want merchandise people actually keep and wear.