There are a number of ice tubs to chose from as you can see below.  We offer vinyl and galvanized tubs, acrylic and nylon tubs, in and copper tubs.

I would guess that the largest item with the most signage, for use at the beach or concerts would be the one shown below.

The 84 Gallon roller is another item that can be customized in 4 color process with a decal.  Small quantity pricing is $249, plus setup charges.

After using the large volume pieces, the next option for inside the bar are the galvanized pails.  There are a number of specials that can revolve around them ranging from 5/7 pail deals to bring a pail home.  These have a high percieved value as a collectable.

For samples on any of these items, please forward us a shipper number.  Samples are memo billed with a 30 day return policy.  We can not guarantee what logos will appear on random samples.

Regarding the prices, these are all retail prices and your price could be as much as 25% less depending on total order quantity and artwork requirements.

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When looking for Custom USB Flash Drives, we offer some styles as low as $4 each.  However, if you are looking for high quality, laser engraved USB Key’s that can both have your logo and a personalization, go no further.  We offer minimum quantities of 1 piece and we ship in 3 days. 

They also offer a number of stock holiday designs at no additional cost.  Our online order system works great, but if you are looking to order more than 10 pieces, it makes more sense to send us a file with all of your personalizations, unless you don’t mind spending additional time entering each name one at a time.  If you are looking for different options, call us at 800-350-1796.  We are based in the USA and can typically meet the most aggressive turn times.

Not only do we offer personalized jump drives, we have a colorful selection 2.5 protable hard drives that carry as much as 500 GB.  The total size of these drives are approximately 3″ x 5″ x .5″.  Small enough to fit anywhere.

Blue Generation has become one of the key suppliers for workplace logo apparel.  More specifically for Restaurant apparel and trade shows.

Known for their wide array of colors, they also happen to be extremely competitively priced. Here are the top reasons to use Blue Generation.

• They have a huge warehouse, which means that they typically will have stock available
• Their color selection is vast, thus matching your company colors
• Their prices with embroidery start as low as $15
• They offer stain resistant, Teflon coated apparel
• Most sizes go up to 4X, in some cases 6X
• Most styles offer men’s and ladies coordinates
• They also offer matching pants and bottoms

With a number of our clients being in the textile industry, we came up with a few ideas on how we could not only feature their product, but also co-brand it in a subtle, classy way.

By using one of our suppliers for rubber labels and another supplier for our sewing, we are bale to assemble these unique bags in the $3 to $6 range, including the cost of the label.

The coin purses are a particularly strong item, as more and more cars are using keyless entry.  They are a great spot to keep your fob, coins, keys, etc.  Each of these pieces were logo’d with both the fabric manufacturer name, which motivated them to donate the fabric and the furniture company name, which motivated them to purchase the labels and assembly.

There are numerous cases where it just makes sense to co-op your promotional items with one of your suppliers.  Logo apparel is another perfect item for this.  Do you get rebate dollars from your suppliers?  Co-op opportunities like this on promotional products are a perfect tool to cut your advertising costs.

For more examples contact Ken Reinstrom at 800-350-1796.

As our business continues to grow in the beverage markets, we continue to find unique new items through our overseas partners.  A few months ago we introduced the battery operated coasters.  These are a great items to use in portable displays when you are doing tastings.  

At that time pricing fell in the $4-$5 range, when doing quantities of 2500 coasters.  With the sudden change in the economy, the price has fallen into the $2.50 to $3.50 range, depending on the quantity you order.  At this price level, these become perfect items to use to sell “on-premise”.  For establishments that have private areas where a full bottle purchase is required, this could be included. For some of the flavored Vodka’s, these can be an add on purchase for $5 with the purchase of your branded drink.  In a dark location, customers will be standing in line to be able to drink your brand.

One of the challenges with the battery operated coasters is if they are being used for full or part time display, the batteries run out.  Here enters the next generation of bottle lights.

While currently priced in the $8.50 range, I see these also droping under $7 shortly.  These are perfect for all scenarios.

Below are additional designs that continue to have a strong showing.  

We carry hundreds, if not thousands of creative promotional ideas geared toward beverage markets. Most of the items we produce are printed in the USA and can ship in 5-10 working days, however, when looking for totally customized products, our overseas partners can better meet price targets.  While most of our off shore projects require 90-120 days until delivery, we have produced some projects in as few 35 days.

Creative ideas are what draw clients to you brand. Do you have a new product launch coming up?  Let us bring you ideas that will make your next launch rock.

I recently came across the article below to find out how apparel played a roll in the incentive industry.  What surprised me most was how large the gap had grown between the use of incentive merchandise compared to Incentive travel.  Please review the article and offer your feedback.

NEW YORK, January 8, 2008 - An increasing segment of the apparel industry is generating incremental sales and taking advantage of the valuable visibility offered by the corporate market for incentives, rewards, and recognition. Leading players within the apparel industry now include Polo Ralph Lauren, North Face, The Timberland Group, T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, & HomeGoods, and many others. In addition to incremental sales and profits, the benefits of this marketplace also include increased product and service visibility when they are featured in corporate rewards, incentive, promotion and recognition programs. While many companies often give away products for promotional tie-ins, others have realized that this is a valuable profit center. 

Why the interest in the corporate marketplace? Travel and merchandise incentives, rewards, and recognition now represent a $46 billion industry, according to the Incentive Federation’s 2007 United States Incentive Merchandise and Travel Marketplace Study. Approximately $32.7 billion was spent on merchandise incentives and $13.4 billion on incentive travel in 2006. Companies whose products are featured in external and internal marketing programs and promotions get extensive visibility aimed almost precisely at the same audiences they are trying to reach in the retail market, making them valuable target marketing opportunities. 

“The incentive industry is booming,” says Frank Katusak, Incentive Federation Board Chairman. “What’s particularly exciting about the results—besides the dollar figure—is that incentive end user executives view incentives as an investment rather than a cost because they can quickly and easily measure the financial return of these initiatives.” To put $46 billion into perspective, Katusak offered these two points for comparison. It is 1) more than the global profits for the top 18 electronics manufacturers (Sony, Sharp, Samsung, etc.) and 2) more than the sales of GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis, Roche, AstraZenca, Merck or Abbott Laboratories. 

Key findings:

·        Thirty-four percent of U. S. companies used either incentive travel or merchandise incentives in 2006. Almost one third (31 percent) of companies used merchandise incentives, while 10 percent used incentive travel. 

·        Incentive travel is seen as an investment by 85 percent of companies with revenues over $100 million in the study. Merchandise incentives are seen as an investment by more than three-fourths of respondents.

·        Companies with revenues over $100 million are more likely to use both travel and merchandise incentives than smaller companies.

·        The most common incentive travel application is for sales incentives. Other widely-used applications are non-sales employee recognition and consumer/user promotions. 

·        Merchandise incentives are most often used for non-sales employee recognition and business gifts. 

·        The average budget for travel incentives was $164,271. More than three fourths of incentive travel end users spent between $100,000 and $500,000. 

·        The typical budget for merchandise incentives last year was $119,008. Almost half of the merchandise incentive users spent between $100,000 and $500,000.

The incentive industry shows no sign of slowing. More than half of large companies queried state their budgets for incentive travel have increased over the past two years, and believe they will continue to increase over the next two years, while almost one third say they have remained the same. On the incentive merchandise side, 30 percent of respondents report their budgets have increased over the past two years and 59 percent anticipate these budgets will continue to increase over the next two years.

The study was prepared by GfK, the fourth largest marketing research organization in the world. GfK conducted telephone interviews with executives responsible for the development and budgeting of incentive travel and merchandise incentives. In total, 1,121 executives were interviewed. 

The Incentive Federation represents the legislative interests of the incentive marketplace. The following members of The Incentive Federation sponsored the study: Incentive Marketing Association, The Motivation Show by Hall-Erickson Inc., The Incentive Research Foundation, Promotion Marketing Association, and Promotional Products Association International.

All of these number are clearly based off of 2006/2007 numbers.  It will be interesting to see how the 2008/2009 economy will effect these overall numbers.  I’ll be sure to fill you in as soon as the numbers come in.

Here is a full version of the report.

The findings of the 2008 Incentive Travel IQ Report indicate that the poor U.S. economy, combined with the high cost of travel, is having a significant impact on how planners are conducting their incentive travel programs, showing that 47.6 percent of the survey’s respondents are choosing to operate their programs on U.S. soil. Of those planners who are operating their programs in the U.S., Las Vegas continues to shine with 46.5 percent of planners considering the destination, with Florida/Disney (45.7%), San Diego/California (30.6%) and Hawaii (29.4%) as the runners-up. 

The down economy has had a greater negative impact on travel incentive programs than merchandise non-cash programs. A full 81% of survey respondents feel the down economy is having a negative impact on their ability to plan travel incentive programs. 

When asked how the growing difficulty and cost of air travel had affected destination choices, nearly 60 percent of respondents said the airline industries’ changes are having a “moderate” or “significant” impact on their programs.more than 35.2 percent of the survey respondents said they look for destination with no more than one transfer for all participants, with another 33.2 percent saying they are trying to stay closer to home or are not considering long-haul destinations at all. 

• 56 percent of planners are now including round trip air transfers 

• 53 percent are covering all costs of air transportation 

• 44 percent have shifted from international to domestic destinations 

• 35 percent have reduced the number of days/nights, as well as the number of rooms included in the travel 

• 33 percent have decreased in on-site “extras” at the hotel or resort such as paid meals, pillow gifts, Spa treatments, water sports, tennis, golf and mini-bar services for participants 

This study also reveals ways incentive program administrators are adapting their incentive travel and merchandise non-cash programs in a down economy. Less than half (48 percent) of respondents consider the down economy to have an impact on their ability to plan and implement merchandise non-cash programs.

Jennifer Juergens, editor-in-chief, Incentive, says “Travel rewards continue to be the cornerstone of corporate incentive award programs… But… companies that have been running incentive programs… need to rely more heavily on program(s) to keep the best sellers selling, and others motivated… incentive program planners (are) putting together programs that continue to reward and motivate employees… without undermining incentive goals.”

Forty-nine percent of respondents say the economy has had no effect on merchandise non-cash incentive programs. Although 61 percent have had to cut their program budgets, 34 percent comment that there has been no change, and 6 percent even say their budgets have increased.

Respondents are modifying their merchandise non-cash incentive award mix in response to the economy with things like:

• Increased use of debit/gift cards (21 percent) 

• Including individual travel as an option (19 percent) 

• Decreasing merchandise award value (16 percent) 

• Including experience-related options, such as spa treatments, cooking classes, wine tasting events (9 percent) 

Most frequently mentioned budget cuts/reductions include:

Number of total qualifiers (56 percent)

• Number of total qualifiers (56 percent) 

• Awards budget (56 percent) 

• Incentive program on-site gifts (48 percent) 

• Communications (38 percent) and administrative (35 percent) budgets 

For more information on “Effects of a Down Economy on the Incentive Industry,” and to download a PDF of the report, please visit the IRF here.

Each year our clients look for ways to give a nice gift to their clients, without leaving anyone out.  Bring in a gift for you top 5 contacts and the rest of the team ends up with Zippo.  While we also carry Zippo products, that was not what I meant.  Back to the point…

One of our core suppliers in the food gift category is Maple Ridge Farms.  Established in 1979, Maple Ridge has designed a tapestry of food gifts that fall within all price ranges.  What our customers like most is when the food is all gone, there is a logo’d gift that stays with the client.

A number of clients have said… “We will just go to one of the big box retailers to pick up our gifts”. That certainly is an option but let me ask you this…  If you started seeing these food gifts on the shelves in October, how long ago do you think they were packaged.  Many of these are pre-packaged during the slower summer months.  Maple Ridge has the highest freshness levels in the industry and we will prove it.

Have you ever considered using food gifts for your corporate giving?  Contact us at 800-350-1796 x101 for a free sampling.

Cutter & Buck has been a long time staple in upscale corporate apparel as well as on the golf tour with stars such as Annika Sorenstam and Stuart Appleby being the prime time promoter.  While CB was founded in 1990, we have been working with Cutter & Buck for over 17 years.   Since those early days I have not seen such a diverse selection.  Last April a European company named New Wave aquired Cutter and Buck.

New lines such as Clique and New Wave that have significant strength in European markets are welcome additions to the CB family.  While they have always been known for “higher end” apparel, Clique and New Wave open up the middle tier price point, still focusing on the highest quality standards. 

What I like most with Clique is the full compliment of retail colors in the jacket line.  The upper scale hoodies in the New Wave line are great quality at a mid price range of $24 to $32.  Cutter Bucks full corporate markets line is filled with winners. 

One trend I am finding from many of my clients is that they are giving out fewer promotional products and logo apparel during these down times.  In contrast, they are using higher end products and brands like Cutter & Buck to ride on the coat tails of these well developed brands. 

A few of the decoration methods being used are also changing.  While a big left chest custom embroidery was always the standard, now we are seeing more subtle methods.  My favorite is using a PVC rubber or Woven Label that is attached to the zipper pull or attached onto the sleeve.  When giving an item to a customer, less is always better.

The next time you need an idea that makes your company stand out, contact us at 800-350-1796.

Many of you may think of our company as a provider of pens, gifts, technology ideas, and apparel. However, you may be surprised to learn the scope of our product offerings.

One of the more unique products we sell is targeted toward the liquor industry. Bottle glorifiers are one of the more common items used typically for on-premise promotions.  Professional Gifting is now offering a larger version of this product. These custom lighted tables and bottle glorifiers are a terrific way to display the product lines you represent.

The picture above is only one design of multiple variations. We offer a spectrum of illuminated colors pieced with the perfect paneling to fit your desired look. Another great thing about these displays, is we will customize the size, shape, and compartments to your specifications. Just imagine, a fully customized bar which gives each beverage the justice it deserves.

We also offer a multitude of options for those of you who want to display other items. This brochure will give you examples of customized banners, pop-up displays,  mural displays, fabric panel systems, alumalite displays, tower displays, hanging signs; Even counters and shelves!