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Subject: Breaking News: PromoShop Enters Into Strategic Partnership With Icon
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Counselor PromoGram
Breaking News Alert

Breaking News: PromoShop Ent=
ers Into Strategic Partnership With Icon Blue

Some 25 years ago, Memo =
Kahan and Walter Hill met while working at the same promo company =E2=80=
=93 Idea Man. It was the beginning of an amicable business relationship tha=
t=E2=80=99s bearing fruit in 2018: Kahan=E2=80=99s Top 40 distributorship, =
PromoShop (asi/300446), announced today it=E2=80=99s entering into a strate=
gic partnership with Icon Blue (asi/229398), a Los Angeles, CA-headquartere=
d distributor that industry leader Walter Hill helms as CEO.

=E2=80=
=9CWe are most excited and honored to be working with the professional staf=
f from Icon Blue,=E2=80=9D says Kahan, owner of Los Angeles-based PromoShop=
. =E2=80=9CWalter created an amazing organization with people who get it an=
d are winners. Thank you, Walter, for entrusting us with part of your legac=
y.=E2=80=9D

Per terms of the deal, sales for PromoShop and Icon Blue w=
ill merge. Icon Blue sales and staff members will move to PromoShop=
=E2=80=99s LA location. =E2=80=9CThe partnership will be identified to Icon=
 Blue clients as Icon Blue, a PromoShop Partner,=E2=80=9D the companies sai=
d in a statement.

Hill said he and his team are excited about the burg=
eoning business relationship. =E2=80=9CPromoShop holds many of the same val=
ues Icon Blue has practiced for 20 years,=E2=80=9D said Hill, who won Couns=
elor=E2=80=99s Marvin Spike Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. =E2=80=
=9CTogether, both award-winning companies will create a stronger value prop=
osition for our customers. We look forward to servicing Icon Blue clients w=
ith an increased bandwidth of services in marketing and creative services, =
as well as global sourcing and logistics.=E2=80=9D

Echoing the sentime=
nts, Kahan said the partnership will prove mutually beneficial, with each f=
irm bringing strengths that will bolster the other. =E2=80=9CThe synergies =
between the two organizations feel natural,=E2=80=9D Kahan said.

Found=
ed 20 years ago, Icon Blue offers branded merchandise solutions to support =
client goals in the areas of sales promotion, marketing and special events.=
 The company ranked 13th on Counselor=E2=80=99s annual Best Places to Work =
list this year. Three years ago, Hill won the Marvin Spike Lifetime Achieve=
ment Award for his success and contributions to the promo industry. =
=E2=80=9CIf you create a point of difference and stick with it, you will be=
 successful,=E2=80=9D Hill told Counselor at the time. =E2=80=9CYou have to=
 know how to use the right products and be an idea resource.=E2=80=9D

=
With reported 2017 North American promotional product revenue of $45.8 mill=
ion, PromoShop ranked 38th on Counselor=E2=80=99s latest list of the larges=
t distributors in the industry. Founded in 1998, PromoShop has nine offices=
 and five satellite sales teams throughout the U.S. and Canada in addition =
to its Los Angeles headquarters. PromoShop has also appeared on Counselor=
=E2=80=99s Best Places to Work list.=20

For more on this and other promo=
 news stories, head to www.asicentral.com/news and follow our twice-weekly =
newsletter, PromoGram, publishing Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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t the burgeoning business relationship. =E2=80=9CPromoShop holds many of th=
e same values Icon Blue has practiced for 20 years,=E2=80=9D said Hill, <a =
href=3D"https://go.asicentral.com/e/148181/or-Awards-content-aspx-id-2072/3=
zpl4v/346908637">who won Counselor=E2=80=99s Marvin Spike Lifetime Achievem=
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servicing Icon Blue clients with an increased bandwidth of services in mark=
eting and creative services, as well as global sourcing and logistics.=
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=09=09=09=09=09=09=09Echoing the sentiments, Kahan said the partnership wil=
l prove mutually beneficial, with each firm bringing strengths that will bo=
lster the other. =E2=80=9CThe synergies between the two organizations feel =
natural,=E2=80=9D Kahan said.<br>
=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09<br=
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=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09=09Founded 20 years ago, Icon Blue off=
ers branded merchandise solutions to support client goals in the areas of s=
ales promotion, marketing and special events. The <a href=3D"https://go.asi=
central.com/e/148181/blue-best-places-to-work-2018-/3zpl4x/346908637">compa=
ny ranked 13th on Counselor=E2=80=99s annual Best Places to Work list this =
year.</a> Three years ago, Hill won the Marvin Spike Lifetime Achievement A=
ward for his success and contributions to the promo industry. =E2=80=9CIf y=
ou create a point of difference and stick with it, you will be successful,=
=E2=80=9D Hill told Counselor at the time. =E2=80=9CYou have to know how to=
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n 1998, PromoShop has nine offices and five satellite sales teams throughou=
t the U.S. and Canada in addition to its Los Angeles headquarters. PromoSho=
p has also appeared on <a href=3D"https://go.asicentral.com/e/148181/shop-b=
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