OUR COMPANY
Ball and Black was established in 2018 as a manufacturer's representative organization for the Promotional Products Industry. We have sales representatives covering the territories of Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.
The Ball and Black Team was named Multiline reps of the year in 2024. We offer our services to a small group of suppliers, both soft and hard goods. Our services include sales calls to distributors, sales meetings, regional trade shows, distributor end-user shows, distributor end user presentations, inside sales / administrative functions. We strive to offer our suppliers the finest representation of their lines to our distributor network.
Rob Ball​
(773) 251-6481
Rob has over 25 years experience in the Promotional Products Industry. Experience includes; Regional Sales Manager for Linda Misiorowski & Associates, Sales Manager for Prime Line/VisionUSA, Vice President of Sales for The Marketing Team, and Midwest Multi-line Rep
Ben Black
(773) 771-6842
Ben has worked in the Promotional Products Industry since 2002. He was an Outside Regional Sales Manager for supplier Prime Resources (now part of Alpha Broder) and Multi Line Rep Group Linda Misiorowski & Associates, Ben was a 3 time winner of Prime’s Regional Sales Manager of the Year Award. He was once recognized by Advantages Magazine as a Top 5 Supplier Sales Representative in the country. Ben is a 2nd generation in the promotional products expert.
Johanna Black
(773) 610-7014
Johanna has been in sales since 1999, with 15 years in technology sales at CDW. Johanna held the role of Senior Account Manager and was successful at establishing and building long-term relationships with clients, idea generation, identifying problems, and implementing solutions. Johanna is CAS certified by PPAI, currently holds the position of Executive Director of PPACW, and was supplier rep of the year for PPACW in 2023.