OSO promotions will be a Director Sportif sponsor of the 2010 Tour de Pink, a charity fundraising Bike Ride to aid Breast Cancer awareness in the Houston area. The ride is put on by an extraordinary group called THE PINK RIBBONS PROJECT.

You can learn more about THE PINK RIBBONS PROJECT at www.pinkribbons.org

This will be OSO promotions 5th year as a sponsor and 6th year as a participant. 
We have a lot of fun helping a much needed cause and great organization. 
For more information see www.tourdepink.org

The American Heart Association works with the administration to draft and sign this annual proclamation.

During American Heart Month, thousands of our volunteers visit their neighbors. Their goal is to raise funds for research and education and pass along information about heart disease and stroke.

Source:  American Heart Association

As the 2010 Winter Olympic Games approach, member businesses are geared up to help sports fans show their support through licensed promotional products—with a green twist.

Many sponsoring companies and official licensees are turning to eco-friendly products to highlight their brands, including Vancouver, British Columbia-based supplier Boardroom Eco Apparel (UPIC: 214844). Boardroom provides Olympic-branded apparel that’s created under strict eco-friendly guidelines to licensees such as the Hudson’s Bay Company in Canada.

“Promotional products have an undeniable impact when used during the Olympics, especially when they are eco-friendly,” says Mark Trotzuk, president of Boardroom. “These branded products are a key tool for promoting both leading brands and environmental protection worldwide.”

In addition to building excitement, promotional products are a key medium of brand marketing. “Some of the world’s...

The United Nations declares workplace stress to be a worldwide epidemic. In the United States alone, 46 percent of workers report that their job is very stressful. This adds up to a million stress related workplace absences each day.

Individual stress-control techniques are important. Meditation, soothing music, biofeedback and other techniques work well to help people cope with the stress of our modern workplace.

The real solution, however, is to recognize that stress control is a leadership responsibility. Leaders and managers can do more to control stress than all of the individual stress-relief techniques combined.

Leaders who implement stress-control strategies see the results in reduced absenteeism, medical costs, health care insurance expenses, workers comp payments, accidents,...