Remember that Bump in the Road for Kathie Lee Gifford?

I’m sure you remember Kathie Lee Gifford. The wife of former NFL player and announcer Frank Gifford, she was a singer, actress and author. She probably became most famous for co-hosting a popular talk show, Live With Regis [Philbin] and Kathie Lee, for fifteen years.?

Her comfortable life as a celebrity was upheaved, however, in April 1996.?

At that time, a labor activist involved with worker and human rights in Central America testified before Congress that a line of clothes to which Kathie Lee lent her name was being made by 13- and 14-year-old children in Honduras.?

To top it off, they were working 20-hour days.?

According to the New York Times, Kathie Lee “was branded a pariah.”

That Wal-Mart made the clothing line did not absolve Kathie Lee from blame. And that other notable celebrities, such as NBA great Michael Jordan and actress Jaclyn Smith, faced questions regarding products they endorsed which were made overseas under questionable circumstances, did not lighten the pressure placed on Kathie Lee.

Of course, what an investigation revealed was the company with which Wal-Mart contracted to make the clothing subcontracted the work to a company in Alabama. Which subcontracted the work, or at least part of it, to a company in New Jersey, etc., etc.

After Kathie Lee’s debacle, large companies which used overseas factories to make their products started auditing those factories. Estee Lauder, Avon, Disney-they did not want to go through, on a much larger scale, what Kathie Lee had to go through.?

David Quincey is the President of QualServ Imports, Inc., in Denville, NJ. He has been at QualServ for over 35 years. During that time, he has been importing candle vessels and lids, paper gift bags and boxes and other promotional items from across the globe.

He knows the dangers for U. S. companies to be associated with sweatshops or factories with poor working conditions. Fortunately for David’s customers, David has a network of local people he relies upon to regularly inspect the factories he uses to fill his orders. They make sure that child or prison labor does not make the products he gets for his clients.?

David’s products costs very competitive, and the customer knows he will deliver quality products on time. And his clients won’t have to answer uncomfortable questions.?

If your company is looking for quality promotional items at low prices, give David a call at 917-992 -1727 or email him at [email protected].