Gemline Announces Partnership with Sustainable Retail Brand Out of the Ocean®

Lawrence, MA (January 16, 2023) – Gemline, a leading promotional products supplier, today announced a new partnership with innovative retail brand, Out of the Ocean®. Out of the Ocean® produces sustainable bags made from 100% Ocean Plastic®. The addition of this new brand partner further supports the Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) mission, which is focused on making a positive impact on society, the environment, and all Company stakeholders. Out of the Ocean products were introduced as part of Gemline’s new Spring 2023 Collection. Click here to view the product offering.

Out of the Ocean® is cleaning up the ocean with every bag. Each bag they make removes the minimum of three plastic bottles from our oceans and waterways. By giving new life to Ocean Plastic®, they are extending the Company's mission to reduce, reuse, and recycle, while creating awareness and impact toward protecting our oceans.

Out of the Ocean® is the sister company of Out of the Woods®, which Gemline successfully introduced to the promotional products industry in January 2022. Out of the Woods® specializes in reusable bags and insulated coolers made from Supernatural Paper™, which use tree cellulose sourced from responsibly managed forests, and are FSC®-Certified (FSC® C153080).

“As part of our commitment to building a sustainable future, it is important to partner with brands that offer superior quality responsible products, which make an impact on the world through sustainable practices and eco-friendly product innovation,” said Frank Carpenito, President & CEO of Gemline. “Our distributor partners and their customers have responded with significant demand of the Out of the Woods® retail brand since its introduction to the industry last year, and we believe the Out of the Ocean® product offering will provide our partners with the additional sustainable, eco-conscious retail brand options they are seeking.”

“After the successful launch of our Gemline partnership in early 2022 with Out of the Woods®, we’re fortunate to have the same unrivaled force supporting this important mission,” said Pierre Barlier, CEO of KeepCool. “Launching Out of the Ocean® to the promotional industry further accelerates our mission to educate all to make more conscious, impactful choices.”

About Gemline

Founded in 1958, Gemline is an award-winning, design-centric supplier providing high-quality branded products to the promotional products industry. Gemline is ranked as the 10th largest industry supplier and 5th largest hard goods supplier by the Advertising Specialty Institute. The Company’s product line consists of a wide range of gourmet food and lifestyle gifts, electronics, bags, coolers, drinkware, stationery, and writing instruments. In addition to its strong portfolio of house brands and Gemline-branded products, the Company offers high-quality retail brands such as American Tourister®, Anker, Be Home®, CORKCICLE®, Courant, Cuisinart® Outdoor Grilling, govino®, Igloo®, Moleskine®, MiiR®, Modern Sprout®, New Balance®, Osprey®, Out of the Ocean®, Out of the Woods®, Paper Mate®, Parker®, Samsonite®, Sharpie®, Slowtide, Waterman® and W&P. Gemline is a registered trademark of The Gem Group, Inc. For more information about Gemline, visit the Company’s website at www.gemline.com or 1-800-800-3200. Find Gemline on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

About KeepCool

KeepCool, the parent company of Out of the Ocean's™ has a 20+ year history of championing the use of post-consumer waste as a raw material source for hundreds of millions of bags purchased to date. With Out of the Ocean™, KeepCool is continuing its mission to reduce, reuse, and recycle to create a virtuous and economically viable cycle by giving new life to Ocean Plastic® while creating awareness and impact toward protecting our oceans.