ASI (Advertising Speciality Institute) recently put out this article showing promotional product sales growth as 3.4% in the first quarter.
With springtime being a historically very busy season, particularly in the more northern U.S. locations, "early-year gains" would be anticipated.
Though there seems to be fairly widespread "calm concern" over the total economic picture, we are encouraged by the fact that, just as we here at All Star believe, a majority of promotional product distributors are optimistic that overall sales will increase here in 2019.