The Promo Column A second look for old favourites
A mug’s a mug, surely. If your cupboard is as full as mine of giveaways, you’ll know that it’s hard to get excited about a new one. However, Promotional Ceramics’ Sway and Spike mugs have a certain something about them designed to stand out from the crowd. Promotional products commentator, Stuart Derrick, reports.
and having a bit of a wow factor. The Sway mug has a concave bulge that makes it look like it is being blown by a stiff wind from one side, while the Spike has a pleasing downward pointing beaker handle.
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he Stoke-on-Trent ceramics specialist is promoting the two mugs as funky, contemporary
Firebrand offers the range which is a collection of healthy protein snacks with numerous different flavours, including smokey BBQ crunch; coconut and berry; cocoa and orange; tandoori crunch; cinnamon and apple, and salt and pepper.
The snacks are available in eco pots, including a stackable option, or as compostable eco block bags. Also, part of the range are granola bars, which could be just the thing to kickstart a Monday morning meeting or to put into a freshersʼ pack for university students. Flavours available are: cashew, blueberry and yoghurt; apple and ginger; date, walnut and pumpkin; coconut, apricot and yoghurt, and peanut, almond and walnut.
Boon or bane Promotional Ceramics’ Sway mug
Promotional Ceramics says that it produces quite a few exclusive shapes, so you need never feel constrained by convention again.
Another company bringing a new dimension to the tried and trusted is Goldstar pens, which has introduced imprints that glow to its pens. In this case, you can see your company name in lights on the exciting new Bowie LED with Stylus pen. As well as the light-up logo, the ballpoint pen features a smooth and sleek black barrel, gunmetal accents, and a capacitive stylus for all your touchscreen devices. It is twist-action pen that comes with matching colour choice of stylus. The LED light logo shows up really well against the black barrel and comes courtesy of customisation with laser engraving.
Healthy snacks
With October on the way, weʼre thinking Halloween, the dentistʼs favourite celebration. This year, why not opt for something more-healthy (I know, boring!) with Firebrand Promotionʼs Good 4 U range of branded healthy snacks? Perfect for an exhibition giveaway that caters to even those health-conscious people or those without a sweet tooth, the Good 4 U range is a great way of pleasing recipients with a promotional edible item.
| 20 | October 2019
It sometimes seems as if the rise of technology has been a boon or bane for merchandise. On the one hand, our amazing smart phones and the array of apps they can run make most merchandise seem mundane. Who can get excited about a widget when in our hands we have such marvels? On the other hand, these electronic devices are physical products and a whole array of accessories has grown up around them to protect and enhance them, as well as giving them new superpowers. Step forward Xindaoʼs 3 in 1 lens clip from its XD Collection. This easy to
attach and use 3- in-1 revolving camera lens clips over the camera on your phone to provide a
Preseli’s promotional silicone
smart wallet
The wallet is also supplied with a microfibre sticky screen cleaner attached to the front surface of the wallet. The microfibre cleaner can be easily removed to be used to clean the screen of the phone, and can also be printed up to full colour CMYK. The wallet fits most flat- backed smart phones.
End of the round up
No merchandise round up would be complete these days without a nod to the growing number of products that help us feel better about the way we treat our planet. The great thing is that they are increasingly stylish and desirable in their own right, and not just as a hairshirt option to guilt trip us.
The Sourcing Team’s 100% recycled PET bottle
Xindao’s 3 in 1 lens clip
selection of special effects. Thereʼs a fisheye lens, a wide-angle lens and a macro lens, providing a selection of snazzy photographic options. Who needs filters?
Another phone addition that can be branded is Preseliʼs promotional silicone smart wallet. This neat little item sticks to the back of phones and phone cases providing a pocket for plastic cards, which is as much as most of us need in these contactless payment days.
Take the 100% recycled PET bottle branded with logo supplied by The Sourcing Team. Not only is it a reusable water bottle (tick) and made from 100% recycled PET bottles (double tick), but in choosing it, you are supporting Plastic Bank, a social enterprise headquartered in Canada which aims to clean up plastic waste from our oceans while providing valuable opportunities for impoverished communities. (tick, tick, tick!). Plastic Bank offers residents of Haiti, the Philippines and Indonesia cash or vouchers in exchange for the waste they collect, which then goes on to be recycled into products. The bottle comes with a cool cork stopper too. Everyoneʼs a winner.
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