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…

World Cup Warriors

 The world cup is nearly upon us and if your business wants to get involved with the festivities, why not invest in some themed promotional products from Gift Selection.

 Make some noise for your favourite team with the Boogieblaster – the original sound from Africa. Don’t be fooled by its small size, because the sound will blow you away! A handy feature of this product is the removable mouthpiece, meaning you can conveniently pack it away in a box.

I must admit the Boogieblaster is my favourite promotional item, however I’m also a big fan of the branded retro footballs. These are the official size, featuring four layers with a lace closure. Thanks to the good quality imitation leather, the ball can be embossed to great effect.

Another great product, perhaps for the more eccentric football fanatic is the ‘Fan Helmet’. This is the ultimate piece of fan gear, they can be personalized to your taste with the football patches, spikes, devil-horns, mini-horns and warrior accessories! Tell me you don’t want some warrior accessories!

Branded Caps

Promotional caps are big businesses believe it or not, especially around this time of year. Unfortunately I look like a degenerate when I wear a baseball cap, but if you can pull them off, you can do a lot worse then a promotional cap by Daiber.

This promotional cap must be doing something right, as it won the ‘Communicative Product’ title, in this year’s Promotional Gift Award 2010. The special cold-black technology effectively reflects the heat instead of absorbing it. The cap is made from 98% cotton and 2% spandex to fit perfectly on the head, with embroidered vents to provide necessary air supply (sounds like a car).

Quality distributers such as Gift Selection and Capstore can supply all kinds of promotional caps though, including my favourite, the old Brush Twill! Have your promotional caps embroidered or have them printed. Gift Selection have even supplied completely bespoke caps before, with absolutely every part of the product being made to order.

Did you know that the first caps were worn in 1860 by the Brooklyn Excelsiors – an early American Baseball team, but it wasn’t until 1900 that the modern “Brooklyn” style cap was worn.

I’m a Lady!

The sun’s been reminding us recently that it still exists, with the more optimistic of Brits donning their shorts and T shirts while showing off their pale flesh.

Right now is the best time of year for your organisation to start thinking about branded T shirts. There are however more to branded T shirts then first meets the eye. If your marketing campaign is geared toward the fairer sex, then having some fittest T shirts will mean they are much more likely to be used. Remember the most expensive promotional items, are the ones that are never used.

One brand of promotional T Shirts that concentrates on their ladies range in particular, is all American favourite Hanes. There ‘TasTy’ range, is proving popular, as their “relaxed fit is feminine and comfortable at the same time, created in our innovative new fabric. You no longer have to choose between a too tight t-shirt and a unisex t-shirt.”

These quality T shirts can be bought from reliable distributers such as Gift Selection, where they can offer five different styles: crew neck, boat neck, v-neck, tank top and long sleeve, while each of the five styles is available in eleven stylish colours: White, Black, Red, Navy, Sunflower Yellow, Orange, Sky Blue, Royal Blue, Khaki, Brown and Light Pink.

Branded Frisbees

The genius behind the invention of the Frisbee, arguable the best toy ever, has died at his home in Utah aged 90.

Walter Frederick Morrison conceived of his surprisingly aerodynamic plastic disc, back in the 1950s, and has since sold hundreds of millions worldwide. Frisbee historian Phil Kennedy (that can’t be his full time job surely) said Mr Morrison and his future wife, Lu, got the idea from playing with a metal cake pan on the beach in California.

His invention was originally named the Pluto Platter, which he sold at local fairs. In 1957 Mr Morrison sold the rights to the California firm Wham-O, which discovered that youngsters were calling the toy a “Frisbie” after the name of a well-known pie! The company changed the spelling to avoid trademark infringement and the Frisbee was born!

This great product was obviously from a bygone more innocent age, but it is still great fun today, and hasn’t escaped the attention of the promotional products market. Promotional Frisbees wouldn’t be an obvious corporate gift, but they are a low cost way for your brand to associate itself with the summertime, family activities and a healthy lifestyle. The promotional Frisbee is my favourite outdoor item, but other similar promotional items are available too like a branded spinner or even a branded boomerang.

If you think promotional Frisbee’s would make a great marketing tool for your organisation, contact the friendly promotions experts at Gift Selection and Promostore, who can advise you accordingly.

Branding the World Cup

In anticipation for the 2010 Fifa World Cup, we are soon to make available a great selection of fun football themed promotional merchandise, designed to get you and your business in the mood for the festivities.

Supermarket giant Asda will also be running many World Cup related promotions over the next few months, with in store football events and hundred’s of ‘golden ticket’ opportunities.

Asda’s parent company Walmart, has signed off a deal to operate as official event stores for the World Cup. Rick Bendel, chief marketing officer at Asda says: “Expect to see a number of family-friendly deals and events in our stores next summer, and hundreds of golden tickets that we’ll be giving away to the games in South Africa”.

Although Asda have their exclusive 2010 World Cup deal, we still thinking ordering your bespoke sporting merchandise from Gift Selection is a better idea. Whether you want to kit your pub out from floor to ceiling with promotional goods, or you want to send inexpensive printed items in the mail, Gift Selection offers the complete sourcing solution.

Printed Promotional Fans

We are far too hot in The Giftselection office at the moment. Despite the windows being open, and being in a state of semi undress, I am slowly melting into my keyboard. Luckily I have a sample of a printed promotional hand fan, which is worth its wait in gold.

Gift Selection has a great range of printed promotional hand fans available, which make ideal promotional items for summer time. A printed hand fan is a corporate gift that will really be appreciated, and doesn’t cost a huge amount either.

If you have any questions about branded hand fans feel free to give us a call, but of course we have a complete range of promotional items for summer. We have cost effective seasonal items like branded lip balm, fun items like branded frisbees to more expensive items like a branded BBQ!