Tag Archives: Gemline

Video: Recycled All-Sport Jr. Cooler

12 Feb

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of Proforma Simonetta Freelance, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

Clif Jordan – Regional Manager (South West) for Gemline – was at the Proforma regional meeting in Dallas last week showing a few of the 2009 Green Living items from the Gemline product line.

Here is a short video on the Recycled All-Sport Jr. Cooler. These are great green items for ecopreneurists targeting sporting events, concerts, camping or other outdoor focused activities.

For more videos, including videos on the Recycled Mercury Messenger Bag (written about on ecopreneurist.com) and Recycled Essential Lunch Kit, see www.youtube.com/proformagreen.

For more information or pricing on this item email info@proformagreen.com

Answers on Cotton: Gemline

29 Jan

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

As you know we really like the organic cotton totes from Gemline.

Well we often get questions about the source of this cotton and other organic cotton used in our industry so we decided to ask Gemline for some answers. Clif Jordan the Regional Manager (South West) for Gemline was nice enough to send some answers.

According to Clif the organic cotton for Gemline bags comes mostly from Pakistan and sometimes India. All cotton used by Gemline is fair trade product and is Certified Organic Cotton, which means a licensed third party international agency (in this case the Control Union headquartered in the Netherlands) certifies the cotton’s origin and its authenticity. Gemline also offers eco-friendly inks and provides more information on their inks on their website.

Although most bag construction is done overseas the imprinting is done in the United States, unless the order is large enough for a full overseas production, say 10,000+ units. Most orders are under 100 units.

If you want to contact Clif directly with questions on Gemline’s items his email is cjordan@gemline.com. The Gemline website also has details on many of their products, www.gemline.com. You can of course also contact me at info@proformagreen.com.

So the bottom line for Ecopreneurists is, if you have questions about your vendor’s sources ask them. If vendors can’t answer your questions, I suggest you move along to someone that can.

We have asked the same questions about organic cotton supplies to Norwood, Leeds and Debco Bag. We will post their responses – when we get them – as well.

Recycled Messenger Bag New from Gemline

13 Jan

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

Gemline, one of our favorite manufacturers for the style and quality of their green line of promotional items, is starting 2009 strong with the introduction of a number of new, green products.

In 2009 Gemline will start carrying nonwoven totes (#5 plastic) as well as totes from 51% Recycled PET fabric, (Leads also sells 51% Recycled PET products which they carry in their very successful Owl line). (more…)

Gemline Launches Green Living Site

19 Dec

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

Gemline – one of our favorite manufacturers – has launched what they are calling their GREEN LIVING WEBSITE at www.gemline.com/gemline.web/living-green.

This site gives a great overview of the green and eco-friendly products in Gemline’s portfolio and I applaud Gemline for getting all their green items together in an easy to view site.

The online catalog is divided into five categories – Organic, Recycled, Cotton, PVC Free and More Options for items like Bamboo and Solar.

I hope more manufacturers produce focused sites for their green items and I encourage them to follow Gemline’s example. Bravo Gemline.

For more information on any items shown on the Gemline Green Living site please visit the site or email us at info@proformagreen.com.

Debco Green Lunch Totes

18 Dec

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

Debco now offers a number of lunchtime totes made from at least 25% recycled content. These bags demonstrate the growing trend to make practical, green items available to marketers.

And with the slowing economy I would remind Ecopreneurists that there is likely a much wider audience for these bags as more and more folks are bringing lunch to the office both for economic (it is cheaper than eating out) and health (bringing in healthy foods and avoiding fast foods) reasons.

Simple non woven insulated lunch coolers like the Debco Bag #NW4517 are EQP $3.04 with a one color imprint. The Debco Bag #NW6915 (a square shape designed) are EQP $3.42.  Available in black, red, lime green and royal blue, the bag we seem to be having the most success with is the Debco Bag #NW4694 non woven 100 gram polypropylene insulated cooler pictured to the right. All these bags are made from 25% recycled material, and Debco lists them as biodegradable on the Debco website. (more…)

Virtual Catalogs? Green At What Cost?

7 Dec

This is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy (see proformagreen.com). John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

Gemline, Leeds and a few other vendors leading in the move to eco-friendly promotional items are now using a technology from a company called Technologo to produce virtual catalogs for their clients. The Gemline catalog is located here, Leed’s here.

It is an interesting platform and this solution from Technologo might be a good way for Ecopreneurists to market to clients of their own without the need for paper catalogs, but I see two main problems.

First, these files are large and reside on a server, so yes you can email the link to clients but I don’t understand how you can email the whole catalog. The system is designed to allow you to send individual pages from the catalog, but you already need to be on the site to do this. Second, how are these any better than a normal web page display?

I guess if you look at it as a living catalog, something that could be loaded onto a PC and taken out to clients, or loaded on a CD or flash drive and mailed, that might make more sense to me, at least that way the catalog is not tied to the PC. (more…)

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