Feeling Fruity?

The Fruit-Pack from Sweets2order promises a great deal of summer freshness. The delicious fruit puree provides natural refreshment in the summer flavours strawberry, banana or passion fruit and creates likeable, high attention-grabbing value.

The promotional Fruit-Pack is approximately 20cm in length, and comes in a hygienic protection packet that can be opened easily, thanks to its optimised tear strip, which enables the fruit puree to be simply squeezed out of the aroma pack.

Whether enjoyed as sorbet straight out of the freezer or non-cooled, the fruity contents always taste delicious anywhere. The packets can be customised with a full colour digital print, for minimum orders of 1,050 pieces.

Sweets2order doesn’t just provide promotional confectionery, it has a great range of complimentary items, such as drinks and as well unusual promotional items like the Fruit-Pack.

If only I could guarantee the weather will be as summery…

Branded Energy Drinks

Branded energy drinks are a fairly popular promotional product on the continent, but not so much here in the UK. There is a high demand for energy drinks in general though, while many run exciting promotions in themselves.

Powerade has launched a promotion that gives consumers the chance to win a training session at a football camp in South Africa, or at top rugby camps, either at Twickenham or the Millennium Stadium. The on-pack promotion for the Coca-Cola sports drink will run until the end of February. It enables their customers to enter a daily draw to win one of more than 100 training sessions, as well as tickets to either a FIFA World Cup match or a rugby international.

Although not marketed as such, the Scottish drink Irn-Bru may be considered the first energy drink, produced as “Iron Brew” in 1901! If your business wants to use promotional energy drinks as part of it’s next marketing campaign, a quality distributer like Gift Selection can guide you through the whole process. Branded energy drinks can take many forms, and a wide selection of flavours or specific vitamin contents are available. Although I think even Gift Selection might struggle with a branded Irn Bru option unfortunately.

Guidelines for Marketing Alcohol

We are a nation of boozers, there’s no doubt about it. Kidney dialysis is viewed as more of a right of passage into manhood, rather than anything out of the ordinary. MPs in their wisdom are coming round to the idea that this probably isn’t a good thing; their committee report on alcohol abuse has called for tighter restrictions for drinks marketing, including the 9pm watershed for TV advertising.

I’m not sure what this will achieve as I doubt any underage drinkers are tucked up in bed by 9pm anyway. For one thing there too busy out in the streets drinking. According to the report, drinks brands spend up to £800m a year on advertising and sponsorship, dwarfing the COI spend of £17.6m. As a result of this disparity, the report suggest that for every five alcohol ads an advertiser should be required to fund one public health ad.

Simon Litherland, managing director, Diageo GB, attacked the report as “another attempt by aggressive sections of the health lobby to hijack alcohol policy-making”. He labelled the proposals on alcohol advertising and sponsorship “draconian”.

Your businesses may wish to use non alcoholic promotional drinks, as part of their marketing campaign to get their customers in shape for 2010. Gift Selection can supply all sorts quality branded soft drinks, while the European style ‘Drink Baxx’ is particularly popular. The branded ‘Drink Baxx’ is available in a great range of refreshing and healthy options, to suit all taste-buds and needs. If you require any further information on any sort of branded drink item, contact the friendly promotions team at Gift Selection.

Hot Chocolate Drinks

We have had some interest lately in little branded sachets of goodness recently, or printed hot chocolate as there more often called. Branded sachets of hot chocolate might not be everyone cup of tea (sorry), but they are certainly a fun promotional product that can get people thinking about your brand.

Branded hot chocolate sachets would make a really inexpensive mailing item, which would target a wide audience in a novel and cost effective way. One important point to bear in mind if you’re interested in personalised hot chocolate sachets is the relatively high minimum order quantity of ten thousand pieces.

If it’s just a small campaign you’re looking at then personalised hot chocolate sachets may not be for you, but for larger organisations they could prove to be a great marketing tool. Incidentally their promotional chocolate drinks are credited by the Fair Trade people, so you they could help to market your business along ethical lines too.

Sweets2order supplies promotional hot chocolate sachets, as well as many other printed sachet items. They can supply everything from luxury herbal tea to the humble salt and pepper!

Crystal Clear Marketing

Promotional bottled water might strike you as being an unusual promotional item, but they are becoming increasingly popular. Sweets2order are one supplier that has gotten behind this trend with a great range of printed bottles of water.