Promotional Gifts Seasons

Festive promotional gifts were a very traditional part of UK business for many years. Promotional gift companies could always rely on a big increase in sales figures in the last quarter of the year.

I more recent years the business has been spread more evenly over the year with peeks and troughs due to seasonal and financial reasons. For instance, the summer gives a different promotional gift push, T-shirts, flip flops, beach towels etc. The winter best sellers can be fleeces, ice scrapers and hand warmers. And let’s face it the UK climate can literally appeal all year round to the promotional umbrella. The festive gifts can be sleek pens, fancy clocks to personalised cards.

Financial years can also reflect in sales, especially if you have an abundance of public sector clients. End of year budgets need to be spent, last minute panic spending does happen.

Golf season and company golf days are always a big appeal for the golf accessories and clothing within the promotional gifts industry.

Major sports events can have a massive push on sales especially if they are in the UK. The 2012 Olympics will have a major boost on the UK promotional gifts market. The 2010 World Cup although in South Africa can also be a major boost on promotional gift sales especially if England have a good tournament and create a feel good factor.

The Promotional Gifts Industry

The Promotional Gift Industry

The beauty of the promotional gifts industry is that every company in the world is a potential client. It could be the local builders who require a dozen polo shirts with their brand embroidered and 500 promotional pens to giveaway, or the local café that wants to promote their company with cotton shoppers and paper cups to give to their customers with their coffee in. Right through to a local authority promoting an event with 10,000 printed balloons, 500 t-shirts with their logo on, 10,000 logoed pens to giveaway or a large commercial company wanting 3500 polo shirts and 2000 jackets with their logo embroidered for staff. There are many promotional giveaway options to suit all needs

Budgets can simply vary from £100.00 for some pens delivered to 1 UK address to £1,000,000 for an entire marketing campaign with world wide sourcing, unique dedicated customer website, stock control, storage, call off and delivery. Total logistic options are now being offered a part of the entire promotional gift service.

Price is becoming a big issue, with people becoming more and more aware of value in their personal and business. We now see every major and minor business gift company offering unbeatable prices.

The small local gift company, a one man band working from home has far fewer over-heads than the major gift company in large plush offices with a team of sales and administration staff. However, service can be key. The small gifts company would struggle to service too many clients, although he can be personable, it would be difficult to portray a larger company image without the back up. Quite simply if he’s out on a call, sick or on holiday, whose going to take the calls and deal with queries or enquiries. The larger company can flex its corporate muscle and cover all angles if they get it right with the personable edge also. Service is Queen, with price the King.

Recycled Promotional Gifts

The UK generates a vast amount of plastic waste every year, in excess of 2.8 million tonnes. This is expected to rise by over 2% in the next year. With ECO quickly becoming the ethical solution, promotional products made from recycled plastic are becoming more and more popular. Recycled is the buzz word.
Now you can get promotional key rings from recycled plastic, pencils from recycled paper, t-shirts from plastic bottles, promotional rulers and promotional fridge magnets all made using recycled vending cups. These have become increasingly popular within the business gift industry.
Recycled promotional gifts provide a fresh approach within the promotional industry. A Eco Incentive not only shows the companies social responsibility, but also a corporate responsibility. With environmental issues constantly hitting the headlines, ECO giveaways can be a double whammy in promoting a company.

It is quickly becoming an important part of the promotional industry Supplying promotional items and business gifts which are ecologically sound and environmentally aware today. Basically, you can take an everyday household throwaway item and turn it into a Promotional product. Promotional gifts are seen to be ecologically sound for any environmentally aware business.
With a recognised need to protect our trees, recycled paper as been an obvious choice for the promotional industry for quite a few years. One tonne of paper that is recycled can save 18 mature trees from unnecessary destruction. A less obvious choice to recycle and produce business gifts from is tyres, yes old tyres. These can be made into promotional pencil cases, promotional coasters and promotional mouse mats.
Education in recycling is now really starting from the grass roots. All schools constantly promote and educate their children in environmental issues and the value of recycling.
Remember today’s plastic bottle is tomorrow t-shirt, so recycle.

Recycled Promotional Gifts

The UK generates a vast amount of plastic waste every year, in excess of 2.8 million tonnes. This is expected to rise by over 2% in the next year. With ECO quickly becoming the ethical solution, promotional products made from recycled plastic are becoming more and more popular. Recycled is the buzz word.
Now you can get promotional key rings from recycled plastic, pencils from recycled paper, t-shirts from plastic bottles, promotional rulers and promotional fridge magnets all made using recycled vending cups. These have become increasingly popular within the business gift industry.
This fresh approach within the promotional industry for Eco Incentives not only shows the companies social responsibility, but also a corporate responsibility. With environmental issues constantly hitting the headlines, ECO giveaways can be a double whammy in promoting a company.

It is quickly becoming an important part of the promotional industry Supplying promotional items and business gifts which are ecologically sound and environmentally aware today. Basically, you can take an everyday household throwaway item and turn it into a Promotional product. Promotional gifts are seen to be ecologically sound for any environmentally aware business.
With a recognised need to protect our trees, recycled paper as been an obvious choice for the promotional industry for quite a few years. One tonne of paper that is recycled can save 18 mature trees from unnecessary destruction. A less obvious choice to recycle and produce business gifts from is tyres, yes old tyres. These can be made into promotional pencil cases, promotional coasters and promotional mouse mats.
Education in recycling is now really starting from the grass roots. All schools constantly promote and educate their children in environmental issues and the value of recycling.
Remember today’s plastic bottle is tomorrow t-shirt, so recycle.