Promotional Winter Clothing

There is a nip in the air and it’s clear that winter is not far away….most people I know have started to switch their central heating on as temperatures drop.

There is a wide selection of promotional winter clothing available.  There are some great opportunities for brands to get their logo and corporate message on to some stylish winter clobber.  Whether its hats, scarves or gloves for when its really cold, or fleece jackets and fleece   There are some really trendy, up to date options around this year too.  From over-size crochet beanie hats for any self-respecting snowboarder or climber to hip caps with fleecy linings to retro look hats with pompons there is a hat for everyone and every occasion.

If you’re looking for some winter clothing workwear for your team or you want to give your clients or customers a piece of quality clothing please give us a call and we can talk through some options.  We’re available on 0161 428 5535.

 

 

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Jo from Hatters Promotional Merchandise on the Radio

MD of Hatters has just been interviewed by Pure Radio about the Hatters involvement in the pioneering ‘Buy One Give One’ initiative.  The interview was on air this morning and is going to be repeated this afternoon.  If you don’t want to miss out we suggest you tune in to 107.8 FM or listen via their website at 3.30pm.

The B1g1 corporate giving initiative is a pioneering way for company’s to start taking their Corporate Social Responsbility more seriously.  Companies of all sizes can get involved and it is straightforward to use the B1G1 website easily to make contributions.

Hatters Promotional Merchandise got involved with B1G1 a couple of months ago and since that time we’re delighted to say we’ve had a positive impact on over 500 lives.  Imagine the amazing impact that could happen if more businesses signed up for the B1G1 programme! 

For more information please call Jo on 0161 428 5535 or take a look at the B1G1 website.

 

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Top Ten Promotional Merchandise Edible Goodies for Christmas

We all know that the festive season is a time to eat, drink and be merry.  We have pulled together our favourite Top Ten list of edible goodies that we think will make great gifts for your clients, customers and staff this Christmas.

 

1.  Sweet Hamper. 

A large wicker basket containing an exiciting selection of sweets.  The wicker hamper can be reused once all the sweets have gone!

wicker basket with sweets

Wicker basket with biscuits

 

2.  Tube of biscuits. 

Delicious shortbread biscuits contained in a branded tin – full colour available.

Promotional biscuits

Promotional shortbread biscuits.

3.  Retro Sweet Pot

Here’s a blast from the past!  A nice clear plastic pot (full branding opportunities on the lid), containing a selection of all our favourite sweets from yesteryear..

Branded Sweet Pot

Retro Sweet Collection

4.  Truffle Gift Box. 

Nothing says ‘Christmas’ like a box of truffles!

promotional chocolate truffles

Promotional Chocolate Truffles

5.  Chocolate coins in a net

A great little stocking filler.  Silver and gold foil wrapped chocolate in a gold net with a printed tag for your logo or promotional message.

Nets of chocolate coins - bespoke branding available

Branded Chocolate Coins

6.  Cadbury Dairy Milk Minatures

Twelve minature chocolates in a clear plastic box.  The top can be branded in full colour with your logo and Christmas message.

Cadbury Dairy Milk Minatures Promotional Item

Dairy Milk Minatures

 

7.  Chocolate puds

Luxury foil wrapped chocolates presented in a clear plastic round pot.

Minature Chocolate puds

Minature Chocolate puds

 

8.  Praline Chocolate Bars

Delicious 70g bar of praline filled milk chocolate or dark chocolate wrapped in gold foil and banded with a digitally printed 4 colour process wrapper.

Branded chocolate bars

Branded chocolate bars

 

9.  Love Hearts Pot

One of the most popular retro sweets the famous ‘Love Heart’ is now available in this gorgeous clear plastic pot.  Full colour branding opportunities on the lid.

Love Hearts Sweets

Love Hearts Sweets

 

10.  Four Chocolate Ballotin Box

Four mouthwatering chocolates contained in a Ballotin style box.  Full colour branding opportunities are available.

Four Chocolate Ballotin Box

Four Chocolate Ballotin Box

If you’re interested in finding out more about any of our Top Ten Edible Christmas Merchandise please give us a call and we’ll be happy to help.  The usual number – 0161 428 5535.

 

 

 

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Time to start thinking about Christmas – Top Ten Food and Drink Gifts

As summer draws to a close it is time to start thinking about Christmas.  Christmas gifts for clients need to be planned well in advance ideally to make sure they’re of the right quality.  There is nothing worse than rushing around in an panic at the beginning of December wondering what to buy your most important clients.  And then dashing out to the nearest supermarket for a bottle of champagne and a glittery bottle bag!  Whilst we all love some fizz we think there are lots more exciting options out there to delight your clients.

So, over the next few days we’re going to look at all the different gift categories and provide you with a top ten guide.

First up are gifts related to food and drink.  We’ll be doing edible client gifts tomorrow – this list is more kitchen, dining and bar equipment.

Food & Drink

1.  There are classy wooden boxes containing everything for the wine connoisseur – a wine thermometer, wine ring, bottle stopper and a waiter’s knife

2.   A digital wine thermometer that can be attached to a bottle.

3.   Wooden chest with two bottles of Burgundy, wine thermometer, waiter’s knife, metal nozzle, wine ring, 2 bottle stoppers and a bottle cutter.

4.   A cheese board and cheese cutlery set.  Four different cheese knives for each type of cheese.

5.   A stainless steel carving cutlery set in its own case.  A great gift for a meat lover!

6.   Latte Macchiato set – containing 2 glass beakers with handles, coasters, 2 spoons and a milk frother.

7.   Drinking cup for on the go – perfect for keeping warm on cold winter mornings.

8.   ‘Blackboard’ mug.  We love this mug – it comes with two pieces of chalk and you can write your own message on the mug! <3

9.    Picnic Hamper – these are a real pleasure to receive and planning for long summer afternoons picnicing can start right away in the depths of winter!  We have a wide choice, in both wicker baskets and in backpacks.

10.  Crystal decanters – we have a wide choice of high quality crystal glassware.

 

If you would like to find out any more about any items on our Top Ten Food and Drink List for clients please let us know.  Contact us on 0161 428 5535.

 

 

 

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Teddy the Promo-dog loves Manchester!

Today is #ilovemcr day. Anyone who loves Manchester is showing their love and support of the wonderful city of Manchester. It’s turning into quite an amazing show of civic pride for Manchester. People are gathering in Exchange Square this afternoon where they can enjoy the entertainment, set off balloons, soak up the atmosphere and eat cupcakes from the fabulous Hey Little Cupcake.  bakery.

Teddy the original promo-dog has been busy in the Hatters office today showing how much he loves Manchester -

Teddy from Hatters - #ilovemcr

Promo-dog Teddy from Hatters

We think Manchester Council have done a brilliant job on pulling together the #ilovemcr campaign.  It’s really galvanised people into showing their support for all things Manchester in the wake of the rioting in past weeks.

 

We’ve just been on the online shop for buying Ilovemcr merchandise.  There is a section with notepads and mugs etc with quotes famous people have said about Manchester.  Our absolute favourite is a quote from Mark Radcliffe – ‘A city that thinks a table is for dancing on.’

MArk Radcliffe quote on Manchester-

So, if you love Manchester, show it by heading into the city centre this afternoon or evening – depsite the rain it’s going to be good fun!

 

 

 

 

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Manchester United Chocolates

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We recently completed a promotional merchandise job for Manchester United. They had an event scheduled and were looking for a stylish and contemporary gift to hand out to guests. We had just the thing…….a neat, minature box of chocolates.

Twelve bitesize bars of Dairy Milk are contained in a clear perspex box. The lid offers a decent size print area for branding. We think our black background decal looks great, don’t you?

We also offer the same clear boxes with mini packets of Love Hearts if you are looking for something other than chocolate.

Promotional chocolates for Manchester United

Promotional chocolates for Manchester United

A fast turnaround is possible on this promotional item. If you’d like to find out more or ask for a quote please call us on 0161 428 5535 and we’ll be happy to help.

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Branded Umbrellas – one of our most popular promotional items.

Branded umbrellas are a very popular promotional item and we organise many different styles and types of umbrellas for clients across the country.

Finding innovative ways to promote your business can be difficult, especially during the current economic climate.  You have to make sure that any investment you make in promotional merchandise gives you a return.

We think umbrellas offer a great marketing opportunity for businesses for several reasons:

  • They are always a welcome gift – something useful for the recipient
  • Branded umbrellas get used.
  • Once it rains, branded umbrellas become a walking advertisment for your company.
  • Great visibility when the branded umbrella is in use.
Promotional Umbrellas

Branded umbrellas

Promotional umbrellas are available in a multitude of colours and they have a large print area for your company logo or message.  And of course, promotional umbrellas are available in different sizes from the large golf umbrella to smaller handbag brollies.

Union Jack Umbrella

Square Umbrella

See our selection of available umbrellas  here – Promotional Umbrellas.   We even have a square umbrella in a Union Jack design.  We think this is going to be a popular promotional item for the Olympics 2012 and the Golden Jubilee.

 

Our friendly Hatters team are here to help.  Email us with any queries or to ask for a quote on info@hatterspromotions.com.  Or call us on 0161 428 5535.

 

 

 

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Hatters now changing lives

Stockport based Hatters Promotions has recently embarked on a programme that changes lives around the world.

Hatters is now partnering with B1G1 — a simple yet powerful way of giving back. Through B1G1, each Hatters sale of promotional products now creates its own specific (and positive) impact.

Paul Dunn, founder of B1G1

 

Already, Hatters have linked their products in surprising ways — from providing water to children in Malawi, shelter for a person in Nepal, hot drinks for the homeless in Auckland and numerous other causes.

Jo Shippen, founder of Hatters, was shocked when she learned that only 4% of all money given to charities is from companies.

‘Imagine what would happen if companies took the decision to give regularly.  Just imagine the difference and impact it would have.  It would impact so many lives in such a positive way. I’m delighted to say that we’ve already had an impact on over 500 people.’

Jo Shippen said that the impact was being felt in other ways too. ‘Although we’ve always had a great team here at Hatters, the team is even more energised knowing that every time someone buys our products, some real good gets done.’

She explained that B1G1 gives her business a ‘giving engine’ that allows easy access to over 600 projects across 22 different countries.

Jo Shippen the founder of Hatters Promotional Merchandise

Jo Shippen the founder of Hatters Promotional Merchandise

‘It means we now can feel great about our business making giving an effortless habit. It’s changing our lives and the lives of people we’ve never met and it’s allowing us to form an even deeper connection with our customers too. We know now that we’re making a difference every second, every day and in every way.’

If any of you are interested in finding out more about how to get involved with such a revolutionary CSR programme we suggest you look at the Buy One, Give One website.  Or get in touch with us on 0161 428 5535 and we’d be happy to help.

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Hatters are shortlisted in the COGs Marketing Services Awards

Lovely news today to hear that we’re through the next round in the COGs Marketing Services Awards! We’ve been shortlisted in three different categories:

Company of the Year

Individual of the Year (Our MD, Jo Shippen)

Best Promotional Merchandise Company

We’ve got through to this stage due to the amount of votes we achieved in the first round.  This first round was all about suppliers and clients voting for us……….so to all of you that took the time to vote………we owe you a really big THANKYOU!

Awards are really important to us.  And not just because we love award ceremonies!  They’re important as they’re an acknowledgement of our hard work and commitment, and of course they’re often an acknowledgement of the results our clients have been able to achieve.  The Hatters team love being able to make a difference!

Judging takes place throughout August and then the final for these awards takes place in September in London.  New frocks all round we think for such a special occasion.

Logo for the COGs Marketing Services Awards

 

 

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The blogosphere…here we come!

This is our very first blog post here on the Hatters Promotions website. We’ve been in the promotional merchandise business for over 14 years and we’ve built up quite a lot of knowledge and experience over that time. We want to use this blog to share some of our learnings and know-how.

Our vision for this blog is to make it a useful tool for anyone working in the world of promotional merchandise. We have plans to include case histories of some of the work we’re really proud of – we hope this will act as inspiration for you if you’re looking for ways to bring your brand alive. We also plan to review promotional merchandise and offer an ‘insiders viewpoint’. Additionally we’re going to have guest bloggers, supplier interviews, client interviews, hints and tips, a how-to section and a useful resources section and FAQs from the world of promotional merchandise! So we’re going to be busy!

We always aim for customer service that stands out from the crowd. Our individualised, personal service is one of the things we hear sets us apart from the competition. The team here are always on hand to help you with your enquiry, help you with ideas and offer practical advice – call us on 0161 428 5535 if we can be of assistance.

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