London, UK, December 28, 2011 – The British Promotional Merchandise Association (www.bpma.co.uk) is providing a safe, quality controlled environment for distributors and suppliers of promotional merchandise to do business. The Association has tailored a range of overlapping benefits for the two key sides of the industry.

Benefits for suppliers include exhibition discounts; education at the “BPMA Academy”; data upload onto a sister site that lets customers find promotional products; sponsorship; ISO certifications; a business support helpline; mediation; a debt recovery service; artwork services; and networking services.

Promotional items distributor benefits include professional video creation; press release uploads; inspection services; web design; and access to approved external websites and organisations.

Many of the benefits for suppliers and distributors cross over. Supplier benefits also include professional video creation for promotional products supply; web design; and membership of or connection to approved external organisations. Member suppliers and distributors who feel that the Association could add yet more benefits to its existing list are encouraged to email the BPMA with suggestions.

The BPMA’s promotional products distributor and supplier members are plugged into a huge network of potential contacts, partnerships and corollary business benefits. The Association negotiates discounts with a selection of trade shows and events, and forges relationships with the organisations and companies most likely to be of benefit its supplier and distributor members. For more information: www.bpma.co.uk.

London - Promotional products are something that can help a business to increase its sales and establish a good reputation with clients and customers. SOURCE is a service-oriented company that is dedicated towards serving their clients in every possible manner. Their services go beyond personalizing promotional gifts as they create solutions which are custom-made and focused. Individuals and companies can visit their online shop wherein they have a huge range of over 40,000 promotional products.

SOURCE has about 20 years of experience in the promotional industry and has satisfied many customers over its period of existence. Their team consists of professionals who see to it that all requirements of their clients are taken into consideration and the output is more than satisfactory. The customer service of this company is up to the mark as clients can get prompt reply and apt suggestions from the professionals. The promotional items are regularly updated here. People can visit their website to browse through the list of new products as well as the bestsellers as that can help to decide which product might be ideal for promotion.

If a business already has a logo or a company motto in mind, they can take advantage of the advanced filter search. This will help them to find the perfect product down to the last detail and they can rest assured that they won’t be disappointed. The entire collection on the SOURCE online website is available with personalization. The professionals here can guide companies to choose the ideal logo, text or promotional items. After this, the graphic team will provide the company with a preview of the customized product. Their professional services can eventually help a business to achieve its marketing targets which will also assure optimum integration of the advertising media. The main aim of a business is to convey its message to the general mass and SOURCE helps them to increase the perception of the brand.

In a company, employees serve a very important part. Without them, there is no organization at all. SOURCE can help companies to find ideal gifts for their employees. Corporate Gifts can be given away during special occasions such as holidays, recognition day, retirement, etc. These gifts are of great quality and can be purchased from the online shop at an affordable rate. This shows that employees are an integral part of the organization and are a value to business achieving success. For more information on the company services, individuals can visit http://www.source-promo.co.uk/ and reap the benefits offered by them.

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London, UK, November 4 2011 – The British Promotional Merchandise Association (www.bpma.co.uk) has developed a website that provides a one stop homepage for buyers, distributors and suppliers of promotional products. The site, which is designed to supply all the support and information needed to successfully do business in the promotional items industry, includes events calendars, specific log in areas for each type of user, and even links to a sister BPMA site where promotional items may be found.

The BPMA’s mission is to promote the best practise and the best customer experience in all areas of the promotional products industry. In addition to providing information on where to get the best promotional items from, and facilitating protected links between suppliers, buyers and distributors, the organisation aims to supply advice and information on successful choice of products. Visiting site users can explore case studies and news items detailing the best use of promotional products in particular promotional circumstances.

The site incorporates information on the BPMA Charter. BPMA Charter status shows that a member has earned a particular level of BPMA recognition, which proves a dedication to customer service; continuity and quality of supply; and the ability to provide regulatory and certificatory documentation when asked to do so.

www.bpma.co.uk

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The British Promotional Merchandise Association protects end users with its own reputation

London, UK, September 9, 2011 – The British Promotional Merchandise Association (www.bpma.co.uk) is making it easier for companies to source business promotional products with confidence. The Association, which was set up more than 45 years ago to regulate member companies and ensure a raised standard of customer service in the British promotional products industries, has developed a stellar reputation thanks to its policy of promoting knowledge and expertise in all areas of the trade.

The British Promotional Merchandise Association vets all of its members before awarding them membership. A business looking to source business promotional products through a member company is able to do this so with confidence, safe in the knowledge that the provider in question is abiding by the rules of the British Promotional Merchandise Association.

All companies sourcing their business promotional products from members of the British Promotional Merchandise Association are guaranteed with exceptional customer experience from first contact to order fulfilment.

www.bpma.co.uk

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July 6, 2010, USA: Promo Direct, the leading distributor of promotional products, revamps its website, www.promodirect.com, where customers can get their desired promotional products instantly and at the lowest possible costs. Promo Direct offers a wide array of promotional items and various other promotional giveaways that help in brand promotion and endorsement.

The PromoDirect.com website has undergone a revamp to ensure that customers receive a much improved online shopping experience, with even better selection of top-quality promotional products and giveaways. The new website offers exclusive services like ‘Direct Rewards Benefits’, Free Catalog offers and a brand new knowledge hub named ‘Promotional Ideas’ that offers innovative promotional guidelines to the customers. Customers coming to the PromoDirect.com will now experience a well-structured, more insightful website that provides better navigation functionalities, key promotional marketing and branding ideas and exclusive online offers.

The new Quick Search feature enables customers to find the right product. Addition of the Customer Testimonial section is also a part of the redesign.

To experience the new shopping experience with Promo Direct, log onto promodirect.

The new fall lines of eco promotional products are now available at IASpromotes.com. These exciting new eco promotional products have been shown to be a powerful presence in the promotional product marketplace.

Philadelphia, PA, September 21, 2009 – The new fall products are here and the newest eco promotional items are being premiered by IASpromotes.com, a longtime leader and trailblazer in promotional products customer service, and one of the earliest proponents of eco promotional products.

Examples of these new eco promotional products range from fun to practical, but all can be highly effective as a promotional product.

Are you ready for a promotional item that is made from 100% recycled and odorless paper made from elephant poo?  One example of the many new and unique promotional items is the 6″ x 8″ Elephant Poo Poo Paper (TM) notebook with hard cover and 32 blank sheets

When your clients write in their notepad, have them use your pen manufactured from corn starch rather than petroleum. It is made of biodegradable organic materials and comes in many colors ready for your imprint.

Or choose a pencil that will help safeguard the environment. Made from 75% recycled paper and 25% new paper, this is an ecologically sound investment in our future.

If it is time to offer a business promotional product distinct from your run-of-the-mill coffee cup, what could be better than a microwave safe, coffee mug made from 100% U.S. corn plastic biodegradable and available in 6 great colors?

To complete your promotional product table setting, there are microwave safe 4″ round plates also made from corn plastic, an environmentally friendly alternative plastic that helps relieve U.S. dependency on foreign energy and is based on a renewable U.S. agriculture product

When it is time to offer promotional products with a sports theme, biodegradable golf tees, derived from renewable resources, in a variety of colors, and golf balls made with recycled rubber will make your company stand out as a eco promotional product company.

And don’t think candy, a classic tradeshow giveaway, isn’t available as an eco promotional product!  Boxes of mini chicklets, along with other types of treats, are now packaged in eco friendly, biodegradable boxes that can be printed on five sides with magazine quality printing. It is great as a tradeshow giveaway or new product promotion.

Bill Litton, President of IASpromotes.com has seen a huge spike in the amount and variety of eco-friendly promotional items. “We now offer more than 20,000 exciting promotional products of this type.”

“I believe we are at the point that eco-friendly promotional products can complement an entire corporate branding program from A to Z… from corporate apparel to promotional backpacks…from promotional caps to promotional t-shirts, promotional tote bags, tradeshow giveaways, promotional bottles, and in general, all business promotional products.”

“Further, advertising using eco promotional products has been shown to generate a very powerful good-will effort, even greater than traditional promotional items.”

Mr. Litton concluded, “I am proud to say to say IASpromotes.com carries the most comprehensive range of eco promotional products in the market.”

For more details please click link below:
http://www.iaspromotes.com

London, UK – Media never stops harping about the negative effects left behind by recession. Whether it is small or large, no business has been spared. All of them were forced to think about new ways of cost cutting and look into more effective sales and promotion strategies. Companies were not able to set aside a thrifty budget towards their promotional activities. As the economic down turn affects all business, competitors too are in the same predicament and this allows prudent business owners to take advantage of the situation to take their lead in the race by implementing more fierce and cost effective promotional strategies.

During these times of recession expensive airtime for TV commercials are not for small and medium businesses. Even big brands have to think twice about spending generously for their TV commercials. One of the most effective strategies that are ideal for times like these is the use of promotional products, promotional gifts or promotional items. This puts business brands right in the hands of customers and businesses cannot get any closer than their promotional products can get to their consumers through the use of any other promotional strategies. Promotional products have a very unique advantage of being right amongst their personal items advertising a brand, product or service without being considered intrusive. Even television commercials can be considered intrusive when people are watching their favorite shows but it is never the case with promotional items. They are received happily by the consumers because it is given away free of cost. Moreover, promotional products come in a wide range of prices providing total control for a business to decide on their budget.

SOURCE Promo, which has been in the promotional products industry for over 16 years, brings forth the largest collection of promotional items. All the promotional items featured in their website are of highest quality and they are modern, stylish and trendy. Undoubtedly, they are highly desirable and this quality makes them the best suited promotional items for promoting all kinds of businesses and services. While deciding their promotional items, it is important to have large number of options and ideas so that business can pick something what is relevant for their specific promotional needs. In this regard, SOURCE Promo brings an unbeatable range of products. Its online store features over 20,000 promotional items and all of them can be customized and branded with a company’s logo and artwork. As SOURCE promo is one of the largest dealers for promotional products, they are able to offer better prices on their inventory. This allows further cost savings for the businesses. To order or for more information visit www.source-promo.com The German version of this website can be accessed at www.source-werbeartikel.com

UK – Today every company has to come up with innovative strategies to market their products and services. As the cost of running a business is on the increase, businesses keep budgets under control. One of the areas that require huge spending is marketing and promotion. One of the best promotional efforts businesses can ever take is investing their money in promotional gifts. By handing out free promotional items, they can easily bolster brand name. Promotional products have lasting impact on people and they elicit highly positive response.

SOURCE Promo, which is a 16-year-old company in the advertising and media industry, helps small, medium and large businesses with its innovative and unique advertising solutions with top-class promotional items. Their online store carries a huge inventory of 20,000 plus items. They have suitable promotional gifts for all businesses. It is also possible to customize promotional gifts as per specific needs.

Coming up with right promotional gifts to promote products and services can be confusing at times. It can become even more challenging when businesses do not find good quality promotional products. With SOURCE Promo, selecting promotional items is no more difficult. This store is known for its high quality products. They have all products very neatly categorized to make the selection process easy and fast. Online shoppers can also search their database using specific keywords. All these make SOURCE Promo a highly user-friendly environment for selecting promotional products.

SOURCE Promo’s promotional products are very competitively priced. This helps keep budget for product promotion under control. As they have many interesting ideas for promotional items, these are highly effective in creating a positive image about a business’ products and services. SOURCE Promo has been certified by TUV for its quality standards. The company’s promotional item specialists help clients to pick promotional items for their businesses.

SOURCE Promo also helps with branding of the promotional items. They have an experienced team that can handle preparation of the artwork prior to its printing. Using their Virtual Sampling, companies can digitally visualize how artwork will look on the promotional products prior to its printing. This helps clients make well-informed decisions on their promotional products as well as the nature of their branding. For more information visit www.source-promo.com

Pensacola, FL ( Prfriend ) Jun 22, 2009 -Distributing promotional products is very common today. With all the marketers distributing some kind of promotional products every season, you can make your clients happy only by providing some unique gifts. I know that everyone here will agree with my statement. Though it is easy to think and say about the customization of promotional products, it is really hard to apply them on the actual product. This is reason why you are able to find many common promotional products out there in the market. Many manufacturers just stay away from advanced customization because it required great skills and highly sophisticated and costly machinery. With years of expertise in promotional product manufacturing, we are able to provide our customers with the promotional products the way they imagine. Customization really has no limits at Discount Favors” says Mr. Carl of Discount Favors.com

Speaking about the customization options provided for the promotional products, Mr. Carl said, “We are equipped with the best printing and manufacturing units. With skilled designers, we will be able to spread the imagination of our customers in the form of promotional products. Though we use some of the very best manufacturing units that are very costly indeed, we supply all the promotional products at discounted prices. You will find our product pricing very cheap when compared to the prices set by the other promotional product suppliers in the market. Moreover, we have all kinds of promotional products available for sales in our shelves. Our customers don’t have to wait for the custom promotional products. We have many pre-customize promotional products which just need to be printed with the company logo and the promotional message. Hence anyone can launch instant brand promotion campaigns”.

Speaking on the move, Mr. Carl said, “Promotional products are not the same with us. If you have the imagination, we can express it in the form of cheap promotional products no matter how hard the customization is.”

With great degree of customization options offered for promotional products, DiscountFavors is no doubt the best manufacturer of promotional products.

About Discount Favors

Launched in 2002 as “Handy Advertising, LLC”, they grew into a huge business of promotional products popularly known today as Discount Favors. With the largest collection of more than 2000 cheap promotional products, discount favors have been offering some of the finest custom promotional products to the marketing world. For more information, visit Discount Favors

Contact:
Handy Advertising LLC
6108 Village Oaks Drive  Ste. C
Pensacola, FL 32504
Phone: 800-939-1980

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Counselor magazine, the voice of the promotional products industry, revealed the top ten fastest-growing promotional product distributors in its June issue. Kansas-based company Absorbent, Ink., ranked eighth with a growth increase of 63% between 2006 and 2008.

“This is our second year in a row to receive the Spirit Award from Counselor magazine,” said Lee Eldridge, president of Absorbent, Ink. “It’s certainly nice to be recognized by Counselor and the industry as one of the fastest growing distributors in the country.”

“In a time when industry sales are down, we’re pleased to be up,” said Eldridge. “We feel very fortunate. We have a great staff. And we remain very excited about the future of our industry and our business.”

According to PPAI (Promotional Products Association International), industry sales dropped by about 7% to $18.1 billion in 2008, down from $19.44 billion in 2007.

Based out of Lawrence, Kansas, Absorbent, Ink. was founded by Lawrence residents Lee Eldridge and Billy Pilgrim. Absorbent, Ink. specializes in custom promotional products,  corporate apparel and unique corporate gift ideas.

About Absorbent, Ink.
Founded in 2000, Absorbent, Ink. specializes in promotional products and corporate gifts for a wide array of clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to academic institutions. Initially a staff of five,  Absorbent, Ink. has grown to a staff of more than 40 without sacrificing integrity and personal commitment. With the reputation as the best in the industry, it is recognized for excellent client service, a broad collection of promotional products, and providing companies significant, measurable results in brand promoting. Absorbent, Ink. is headquartered in Lawrence, Kansas. For more information, visit http://www.absorbentprinting.com

Recognition
• Twice recognized by the Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing companies in the country.
• Twice awarded a Spirit Award by Counselor magazine as one of the “10 Fastest-Growing Distributors” in the promotional products industry.
• Recognized by Counselor magazine as one of the “Best Places to Work” in the promotional products industry.