The Redbows Promotional Gifts Blog

We live in a fascinating world. I just wanted to remind everyone that Easter is early this year (Mar 23rd – see our 2008 Events Calendar) and so if you want to give your clients or colleagues personalised Easter Eggs, then you have got to get your skates on.I searched the internet for some information on Easter and in particular the Easter Bunny. Wikipedia was brilliant – again. I had no idea that the bunny is considered a supernatural-like creature who brings gifts (normally chocolate eggs) at Easter to good boys and girls, and is linked through the festival of Easter itself to the pagan fertility goddess Eostre. So, there you have it. As with most of our modern day festivals and celebrations there is much history and sometimes a little magic to uncover.

Halloween is upon us this month and what better time to think about client promotions. According to Wikepedia, Halloween is a Pagan festival. The word actually means All-Hallow-Even, as in the evening before ‘All Hallows’ or ‘All Saints Day’. Halloween is considered by some to be one of the most potent times for magic, when spirits can make contact with the physical world. I am not suggesting that you even attempt this or prepare the way with some delightful Halloween promotional chocolates. However, you may like to consider using this annual event as an opportunity for a themed promotion for clients, resellers or employees. Given the ‘trick or treating’ tradition of Halloween promotional confectionary is very appropriate and at Redbows we can basically taken any of  our confectionary items and turn them into something rather ‘naughty but nice’. Particular favourites are foil-wrapped chocolates either as individual chocolates, balls in a net or lollipops. Another is ginger bread men or should I be saying ‘Wizards and Witches’ ?

Christmas is a fantastic time of year for promotional gifts companies like Redbows. One of our favourite products is the promotional gifts calendar. There are a variety of customisation options when it comes to this type of gift. All our calendars can cater for either a part or full customisation ranging from a completely bespoke design to an off-the-shelf one with an area to imprint your marketing message. We can even print on the reverse of the windows and mould the chocolates to incorporate your company logo. Everything is possible with this type of gift provided that there is a sufficient lead time.

The problem here is that to get the price down these promotional gifts are produced in massive print runs and we collate several orders together on the printing presses. In addition most customers like to have distributed their advent calendars before December 1st. So our order cut-off points run between October 22nd and November 12th. If you then take off these dates say a week or more for artwork approval, you can see why we ask customers to think about promotional advent calendars as early as August!