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Take a Strike Against Cold and Flu Season

Each year everyone stresses the idea of protecting yourself in cold and flu season. But honestly does the flu affect us all? And the bigger picture is how do we protect ourselves?

The truth is 1 in 5 Americans get the flu each year. The United States Center for Disease Control estimates that between 3,000 and 49,000 people die from influenza each year, 90% of which were under the age of 65.

People at high risk are children 6 months to 5 years old, pregnant women, anyone who lives with or cares for infants, health care workers, and adults over 50.

The combination of pneumonia and influenza is the nation’s eighth leading cause of death.

Now that we know the facts, how do we protect ourselves?

Through endless research we have compiled a list of the best tips to prevent your exposure to the cold and flu this season.

  • Eat lots of fruits and vegetables! (for maximum vitamins and minerals)
  • Make sure your hands are clean. Use hand sanitizer or wash hands with warm soapy water.
  • Keep your hands away from your face.
  • Get moving! Exercise boosts immune function.
  • Get plenty of sleep and rest.
  • Decrease stress and meditate
  • Diffuse essential oils into the air (eucalyptus is a great option).
  • Be sure to sneeze properly (into your elbow).
  • If you get sick, stay home.
  • And the single best way to prevent the flu is to get a flu shot.

Be prepared to combat cold and flu germs throughout the day with a bottle of SnugZ hand sanitizer, available in a variety of scents and easy to carry bottles. Check out a few of our favorites like ZSCP or ZS19.

You never know when those germs will strike so keep SnugZ handy this season!

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/keyfacts.htm

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SnugZ Newest Addition: Freddy The Yeti

As the leaves start to transition from green to red and yellow to orange in the Utah valley, the mountain tops are starting to see its first taste of snow for the season.

Soon will come winter and all of Utah will be covered with a thick blanket of white. With the snow comes a favorite Utah pastime of skiing and snowboarding where our story begins…

 

 

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Freight Special

It seems that nowadays all we seem to be running out of is time. Time we could be spending on a proposal or a meeting with a new client. Time shouldn’t be wasted on shipping!

Here at SnugZ USA we believe that our 3 day freight orders should be available at the cost of ground rates. Have your dye sublimated lanyards shipped from east to west, or your screen printed lanyards from west to east in 3 days flat!

No use wasting time and money worrying, when you could be giving people better and faster customer service! Starting at 250 pieces and all the way up to 2500, you are sure to save the day, and your wallet.

Be a hero with our new freight special today!

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Promo Marketing 2014 Supplier Excellence Awards

The results are in and Promo Marketing has announced its 2014 Supplier Excellence Award Winners!

SnugZ USA is ELATED to report that we have won GOLD in Lanyards and Personal Care products, and Silver in Badges & Buttons!

This is a huge accomplishment for the SnugZ USA family and we want to thank everyone who has supported us and helped by voting!

“Each winner has been picked by distributors as the top supplier in their category. Company size, sales volume—those don’t matter. The suppliers here did something that can’t be expressed by numbers: each one worked harder and did more to convince their customers that they are the best. Congratulations to this year’s winners.” – Kyle Richardson, editor-in-chief of Promo Marketing.

Read more about the article here: http://magazine.promomarketing.com/article/promo-marketing-presents-2014-supplier-excellence-awards-winners#

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Why choose compliancy?

 

In the promotional marketing industry, it is important to stress the value of compliancy for many reasons. First and foremost, “It’s the law,” states Richard Massey, in charge of Regulatory Affairs at SnugZ USA. “We ensure that we have done what we can to make our products safe.”

It is essential to create a safe environment for our employees and our customers. In doing so, we are one of the only lanyard, personal care, and food and gift facilities to be Quality Certification Alliance (QCA) accredited. We meet the QCA high standards for quality, are compliant, and socially responsible.

According to the QCA website, the “QCA Accreditation is a process of comprehensive validation that confirms a promotional products supplier has processes in place intended to detect and deter any non-compliant product from entering the marketplace. The QCA Certification Process harmonizes the ever-increasing array of compliance tools, identifies the most rigorous standards, measures these standards, and continuously revises and updates the measures and methodology to reflect evolving concerns. Accreditation / Certification is granted to companies who complete an independent third-party audit and comply with stringent standards, which are based upon a combination of state and national laws, international standards and industry-accepted best practices that are recognized for their strength and effectiveness by QCA Accredited companies, the promotional products industry and end-user clients.”

Having this accreditation of compliancy guarantees our customers a quality product they can trust. Our products have a low risk for potential recall issues, in turn, reducing cost and wasted time. This also allows us to improve products and standards within the industry, while making a positive environmental impact.

We don’t think compliancy is a choice; it’s a professional responsibility.

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A Brand Pursuing Manufacturing Excellence

Starting out as a company making custom eyewear retainers in 1981, their innovative spirit has helped to grow them into a large full scale facility, producing promotional items from lanyards to a full line of personal care items.

Through the years, SnugZ has perfected the process of manufacturing, not only creating a product of quality, but one that customers trust and know will arrive on time.

 

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Holiday Video

We all took some time out of our busy schedules this holiday season to give back to the community. We took team pictures for our website and SnugZ provided us all with a jacket and lunch from one of our favorite local places, The Soup Kitchen.

We were able to provide blankets and other items needed to the The Rescue Mission, The Ronald McDonald House and The Family Promise.

We all enjoyed this activity and look forward to future projects where we can help out others in need.

Please click here to watch the video.