WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—Hanesbrands Imagewear announces today that Eskimo Joe’s, the popular bar and restaurant located in Stillwater, Okla., has been inducted into the Hanes Beefy-T T-shirt Hall of Fame. The company presented Eskimo Joe’s co-founder Stan Clark with the inaugural Hanes Beefy-T Hall of Fame Award during Eskimo Joe’s 35th anniversary party on July 24.  -Read more-

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—Hanes Imagewear is awarded a supplier achievement award for its Hanes EasyColor swatch card as "Most Beneficial Sales and Marketing Aid." The Hanes EasyColor swatch card, part of the overall Hanes EasyColor program, is designed to make it quick and simple for apparel decorators and their customers to shop the entire Hanes Imagewear collection by color and style.  -Read more-

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.—Hanes Imagewear transitions its Hanes Beefy-T T-shirt to a tag-free neck label during 2010. The T-shirt celebrates its 35th year, and shipments of the Tagless Hanes Beefy-T to wholesaler customers are underway. The company expects the transition to be complete by spring.

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Heritage Sportswear Inc. invites wholesale customers to Columbus, Ohio for the BIG IDEA Show, April 22, 12–8 p.m. The BIG IDEA Show will reportedly deliver education applicable to decorators and their customers. Exhibiting mill partners include Anvil, Gildan, Hanes, Jerzees, Brightline, Calvin Klein/Van Heusen/Timberland and more, sharing decorating tips, swatch cards and samples. Idea stations showcasing decorated goods will dot the show floor and finger foods and beverages will be provided throughout the event with Happy Hour from 5–8 p.m.  -Read more-

In previous installments, we’ve focused on designing T-shirt art that is both printable and good looking. Many artists and designers can create art that looks good printed on paper or on a computer monitor, but they simply don’t know the realities of printing on T-shirts. A few mouse clicks and what looks interesting or even beautiful on the monitor becomes a nightmare for the printer, may waste hundreds of dollars in set-up time on press, and may end up a revolting mess when it finally hits the garment.

As this series is dedicated to a new sort of designer with the ability to engineer T-shirt art through a knowledge of printing on garments based on hands-on experience, we focus this month on Print Architect Brian Lessard.

Performance properties emerging in new material, knit and treatment innovations are among the most popular ways in which manufacturers seek to diversify their apparel offerings.

TREVOSE, Pa.—BroderBros. Co. adds several fleeceⁱ styles to its Total Team Guarantee (TTG) selection of Gildan and Jerzees products and adds Hanes and Outer Banks styles to the TTG selection. The three-prong TTG program includes a price match guarantee, order fulfillment and packing guarantee and in-stock guarantee for its Alpha, Broder and NES divisions. New styles will be added to the in-stock guarantee, which previously applied to only the top three Gildan products in select colors. The in-stock guarantee states that if the company is out of stock on any applicable items, the customer will receive a five percent off coupon that can be used on any order. Visit www.broderbros.com/guarantee.