You wouldn’t think it given the current deep freeze, but spring is just around the corner, which can only mean one thing: time to start prepping for the 2026 Impressions Expo in Atlantic City, New Jersey—the decorated-apparel industry’s sole East Coast trade show.
Set to take place March 25-28, this year’s expo will once again feature the latest and greatest from across the decorated-apparel industry, including everything from the latest in decorating technology and materials to cutting edge software and apparel.
Keep an eye on this page for the latest on everything you need to know to help make the East Coast’s premier decorated-apparel trade show and your own business a success, including: registration deadlines, conference session info, networking opportunities, exhibitor news and debuts, and more. To register, click here.
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Expo Scene: Impressions Expo Atlantic City Just Around the Corner
Don’t look now, but hot on the heels of this past January’s outstanding Impressions Expo in Long Beach, California, comes Impressions Expo Atlantic City, set to take place March 25-28 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. As always, Impression’s sole East Coast show will feature the same dizzying array of materials, blank-apparel and equipment custom decorators of all kinds have come to expect when they pay a visit to an Impressions Expo. The latest in automated screen-printing, digital decorating, machine embroidery, you name it—it will all be there; as will a comprehensive selection of state-of-the-art production and business management software, threads, inks, disposables, blank T-shirts, totes, merch and hoodies.
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2025 The Year in Review for the Decorated Apparel Industry: The More things Change…
This same time last year, Impressions content director, Adam Cort, wrote, “The first thing that comes to mind is how both the economy as a whole and the decorated-apparel industry, in particular, have continued to thrive.” This as the world was still feeling the last aftershocks of the pandemic. This same time two years ago, he wrote, “Barring any kind of craziness on the part of the powers that be, I see no reason why business shouldn’t continue to boom across the board.”
Well, well, well—did someone say, “Crazy?” Love it or hate it, there’s no denying the fact the current administration in D.C. has been keeping the world economy on its toes, to say the least. Once again, though, as was the case with the pandemic, it appears the decorated-apparel industry, after the initial shock of “Independence Day,” just got right back down to business.
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It’s a Wrap: the 2025 Impressions Expo in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Coming hot on the heels of the record-setting Impressions Expo in Long Beach, California, this past January, the 2025 Impressions Expo in Atlantic City, New Jersey, was yet another winner. First and foremost was the energy that seemed to permeate the entire three-day event. Though hard to quantity in the immediate wake of the show, exhibitors of from all backgrounds—including everything from equipment vendors to materials and blank apparel specialist—lauded the number of sales they’d made and/or number of solid leads generated.
