Promotional Items
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Jasper Meeks, a printer in Coshocton, Ohio, is designed by many to be the Promotional Items originator of the corporation when he convinced a local shoe store to supply book bags imprinted with the store name to local schools |
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| Henry Beach, another Coshochton printer and a competitor of Meeks picked up on the aim and posthaste the two men were selling and printing bags for marbles, buggy whips, card cases, fans, calendars, cloth caps, aprons and even hats for horses. |
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2006 US sales of promotional products totaled $18.6 billion dollars, up from $17.8 billion in 2005. The industry is growing at a faster rate than newspaper or radio advertising and is fewer than than Internet advertising ($16.8 billion), cable television ($16.9 billion), Unethical Pages advertising ($14.4 billion) and outdoor advertising ($6.8 billion).