Compliance Archives - Inck Merchandise

Child friendly: The smart business guide to promotional products for kids

July 2, 2024

There are two rules for successfully creating children’s products: safety and FUN. We’ll help you nail both. If you want to delight a young audience with promotional merchandise, there are…

Button Batteries – Mandatory Safety Standards Take Effect in June ?

May 23, 2024

It’s been six years since I posted this CHOICE article on the danger of button batteries. Hearing that 3 children had died and many more had been seriously injured after…

Different Types of Plastic: How to Choose Your Promotional Merchandise Responsibly

October 2, 2020

Different Types of Plastic: How to Choose Your Promotional Merchandise Responsibly When it comes to choosing promotional products for your business, one of the first questions we advise you ask…

When Creative Marketing Goes Wrong – 3 Promotional Marketing Fails

September 9, 2020

Looking to avoid the ‘Whoops!’, ‘Fail!’ and ‘Ouch!’ factor in your next promotional marketing campaign? Let’s learn from three creative marketing case studies that can teach us what NOT to…

Everything You Need to Know About Face Masks

August 20, 2020

If you had asked us 6 months ago what we knew about buying face masks we would have probably said, ‘Nothing!’ Now, hardly a day goes by without us fielding…

Choosing the Right Face Mask for Your Brand – An Insider’s Guide

July 23, 2020

Keys, Phone ….. Face Mask. What was once the choice of a few is steadily becoming the standard for many. From 11.59pm tonight, people in metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire…

Responsible Sourcing Checklist

July 16, 2020

Responsible sourcing is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot. When it comes to your promotional products, it is not enough to assume that your supplier (if you are…

Branded Merchandise Fail Alert.

July 3, 2020

A few years ago, an Australian government department ordered thousands of rubber wristbands to promote an environmental issue. When the promotional wristbands arrived each of them came individually wrapped in…

Pandemic Profiteer Gets Sentenced for Selling Fake 3M Masks

July 2, 2020

Another pandemic profiteer bites the dust. The boss of a Chinese Pharmacy and two of his associates have been sentenced to 15 years in prison for selling counterfeit masks at…

Procurement, Panic & the Supply Chain

June 17, 2020

I think we can all agree that 2020 is not going entirely to plan. That said, in the mad rush to pivot (hand sanitiser, face masks, oh my!) and the…