The Redbows Promotional Gifts Blog

Well we were totally made up last week when we found out that we were one of the top 15 promotional gifts distributors in the UK. The Sourcing City awards are made up by votes from our peers including distributors and suppliers into the industry and so this is a major accolade for Redbows and justification of the last 6 years work developing the business. We are almost ready to sign off 2011 as a year in which we achieved BPMA Charter Distributor status and certification to ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. All great achievements and the Sourcing City result just helps to cap off another amazing year at Redbows.

Promotional Chocolate Advent Calendars are all the rage again this Christmas. Each year this product continues to attract interest at Redbows and we are fortunate to be able to offer clients two types. Our part-personalised promotional chocolate advent calendars have a small area within a standard template design, into which we can overprint a 1-4 colour logo. The rest of the design is chosen from one of our standard templates. Our fully personalised promotional advent calendars are printed to a client’s complete design. The real point with advent calendars is that they provide a great brand reminder for an organisation and something that the recipient will turn to each day in the run up to Christmas; from the beginning of December. We have a number of options as well including Fairtrade, UK and Belgian chocolates and postal cartons. Promotional chocolate advent calendars continue to be a great Christmas treat and marketing hit with clients.

Even though we are approaching autumn, there is still plenty of activity on the golf course. This is an ideal time for corporate golf gifts and on the Promotional Gifts Store we have just made several improvements to our golfing collection. With golfing items ranging from low-cost branded golf tees to more expensive gift sets and awards, we have everything you could want to brand your event and make sure it is a smashing marketing success. We can organise printing, embroidery and engraving of all the gifts within our golf collection. Just let us know a budget, what you want to achieve and one of our Promotional Gifts Consultants will be able to put together the right golfing gifts package for your event.

Our new promotional gifts Christmas catalogue is now out and available for viewing online or you can request a copy by post. To tie into the new Xmas calatologue we have also generated a top Christmas Gifts ideas collection featuring a few of the items from the catalogue. Whatever you need in promotional gifts talk to one of our Promotional Gifts Consultants and let them help you get the best deal for your Christmas promotions.

At Redbows we work very hard to bring you the latest promotional gifts and products. This also means putting them into the best possible collections and website formats to help you find them. During August we launched a couple of new collections including: back to school promotional gifts and our best selling metal promotional pens. We hope you like them and look forward to continuing their development.

The new Budget Calculator from Redbows is a great little tool that allows you to search our Promotional Gifts website for branded gifts using two or three parameters including: total budget spend in UK pounds and quantity required, plus a search by individual product type or collection. The nice thing about the budget calculator is that it helps clients to optimise their budgets, find gifts online that they could use in their campaigns and it is really easy to use. We just love technology at Redbows and adding useful features such as this to our website helps to improve our visitor’s experience and find the branded promotional gifts they need.

We are only half way through the summer and that means plenty of time for corporate golfing events and at Redbows we supply a wide range of promotional golfing gifts. No matter what your budget or timescales we can supply you with branded golfing merchandise ranging from golf balls to towels, umbrellas, clothing and event engraved after-dinner prizes and awards. Generally branded golf gifts can be delivered as plain stock or branded items within 5-15 working days.

Redbows has achieved the coveted BPMA Chartered Distributor status. We are thrilled with this latest accreditation as to our standing in the promotional gifts business and approach to the supply of promotional merchandise. 2011 has been quite a year for Redbows and the Chartered Distributor status is added to the ISO 9001 and 14001 certifications received by the company for its quality and environmental management systems. BPMA is the British Promotional Merchandise Assocation, with whom Redbows has been a member since 2005.

The first batch of our Marks & Spencer vouchers left our office last night and are winging their way to some lucky clients. We like to say ‘thank you’ at Redbows for trusting us with your promotional gifts orders and their delivery and fulfillment. The voucher idea just seamed the right way to do this as it is personal but also something that can be shared. For clients who cannot receive vouchers like this we offer to donate the equivalent funds to our chosen charity – Starlight.

Dawn our MD has been spending some time taking part in industry debates on LinkedIn – the business networking site. Dawn’s linked in profile can be viewed at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnkoffler and recommendations are always welcome off course. What’s nice about LinkedIn is the informal way it connects industry people with clients and suppliers and allows them to take part in special groups – such as that run by the British Promotional Merchandise Association (BPMA) – sharing information and comments that can only help to further shape both policy and direction of industries like ours. At Redbows we also use Facebook and Twitter as further ways to connect with clients and spread our message about promotional gifts.