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By Jackie Rosselli
Entries are now being accepted for the second
annual UNIVATOR Awards, a UniformMarket competition
that showcases the best industry ideas and achievements
of 2005. If you’ve launched a new and successful
line, implemented marketing or sales strategies
that have bolstered your company’s profits,
creatively used technology to enhance your business
or produced a public relations campaign with
positive results, we want to hear from you!
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By Joseph Greco
Greco
Apparel, Inc.
Once the vision and mission of an organization
have been established, the necessary role
definitions must be determined along with selecting
who will fill those roles.
An organization is a group of individuals and
groups have certain characteristics no matter their
size. Groups operate on two levels. One is an overt,
conscious level focused on task. The second is
a more implicit level of process, emphasizing group
maintenance and interpersonal dynamics. While the
second level is vital for group health and long
term performance, the first reason for the group
(organization) to be formed is task performance
to support the mission. But those tasks are not
performed in a vacuum. They are performed in relation
to the mission of the organization and with regard
to the relationship of other group members.
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By Jackie Rosselli
This month’s product round-up features
news from Fair Hemp, Paxar, and the American
Sheep Industry. We’ve also included
a correction to one of the items that appeared
in last month’s column.
For many, summertime and baseball hats go hand
and hand. Indeed, the sporty cap is a staple all
over the country. Now comes word that Fair Hemp,
which bills itself as a “company committed
to manufacturing processes that respect the earth’s
resources and utilizes renewable resources without
creating unnecessary waste,” has produced
the classic hats using new materials and an eco-conscious
approach to manufacturing.
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Jim Buik, Chairman of the Board of the Uniform
and Textile Service Association (UTSA), and David
Rawlinson, Chairman of the Board of the Textile
Rental Services Association of America (TRSA),
have announced that the boards of Directors of
both associations have agreed in concept to a plan
to consolidate TRSA and UTSA into a single association
effective January 1, 2006.
In July, members of both groups were mailed documents
for use in deciding the issue, and were given the
month of July to submit their ballots. Each association
will conduct a proxy membership meeting August
15 to record the vote’s outcome.
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