BH1 Promotions

Covid-19 Update: Our Current Status

Chris — Fri, 15 May 2020 11:18:22 +0000

As we all get to grips with lockdown it’s certainly not business as usual at the moment. Many if not all businesses across the UK and the world are affected and we’re no different here at BH1.

As we get used to business in these abnormal times we wanted to present a further update with what we are & what we’re not doing due to Covid-19 and the procedures we’re following based on the government advice.

Working from Home

The wellbeing of our staff, customers and everyone else connected with and part of BH1 is the most important thing during this corona chaos. Like many of you already are, we too are working from home and operating reduced staffing hours in the process.

Our technology allows us to speak to you in whatever format is best and we are still contactable through the usual channels. However it may take us a little longer than normal to respond to you due to the situation, so far we haven’t noticed any drop in response times or encountered any issues *fingers crossed

Helping You with Projects & Orders

We’re here for you. At the beginning of this crisis we experienced (like many other businesses), a drop off in projects & orders. We of course completely understand why this has happened. ‘New Business’ has been put to one side at the moment and it’s a case of dealing with the current situation and ensuring that you emerge from corona in the best state possible. However if you do need to speak to us please do so in the usual way – we are here to help.

As our whole industry adjusts to this new way of working the majority of our factories and suppliers have been affected in some way. Whether that is closures, partial closures, or not at all this situation is constantly changing. To mitigate this we are in constant contact with our supply chain and whilst production processes have been reduced in general, the majority of production schedules are still available albeit with slightly longer leadtimes. This is obviously due to the correct and necessary instructions from the government and health guidelines for social distancing etc.

Bearing the above in mind when you speak to us about your existing or new projects & orders we will be able to fully update you with what’s happening and offer solutions that meet your specific needs and requirements, like we have for a number of you already.

Production, Print & Despatch

I’m pleased to say that all orders that we’re due for delivery have been. Orders & projects currently in progress are all being delivered on schedule as planned. If anything changes with this we will of course update you and resolve any potential issues, but so far so good and very little issues to report.

Corporate Schemes & Webshops

A number of you use and have our corporate schemes and webshop services and these are running to normal schedules with despatch. Naturally we are following strict social distancing measures and all of the government advice as well as a rota system ensuring that there is only ever a minimum of staff members for on site despatch. For your corporate scheme orders please continue to order in the usual manner or via your online webshops.

Meetings & Keeping In Touch

We understand that you want to be kept fully informed and it’s really important for us to keep you updated on what we’re doing and we’ll be doing this through our regular email newsletters as well as updates through our social channels.

We have already had a number of virtual meetings with some of you, discussing existing or new projects and ideas for when we emerge from corona. This is something we have really enjoyed doing, although it’s taken a little getting used to (it’s always nice to speak to a human after all :).

We continue to offer this to you all should you require it, simply contact us and we can arrange a convenient time for a meeting.

We have so far used a few different methods for this, zoom, google hangouts, teams, skype so we can work with any software that is easiest for you.

Final Thoughts

It’s certainly tough going out there for everyone from both a business and personal point of view. We’re confident that we will all emerge from this stronger and whilst it’s difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel, this too shall pass!

Stay Safe.

P.S. This page will be continuously updated as we move through and out of the Covid-19 crisis.

10 Promotional Products for Outdoor Events

Chris — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 09:48:59 +0000

Despite the British weather, these days, there are more opportunities than ever to get your business noticed at outdoor events, whether at festivals, shows, branded golf days, sports events, awards ceremonies, fun runs or corporate fun or family days.

Promoting your business at outdoor events presents both different opportunities and different challenges to promoting it at indoor exhibitions and conferences. So it’s not surprising that clients often ask us for advice about how best to promote themselves at outdoor events and for recommendations on the best branded merchandise to take along.

While you can always feel free to contact us for advice—we love the chance to chat to our clients and help them with our expertise!—we’ve put together our top tips for maximising your marketing at outdoor events, and some recommendations for top outdoor promotional products.

Be Seen! Raise Awareness at the Outset

Don’t leave visitors in any doubt as to where you are and what you’re about when they attend an outdoor event! Big, bold promotional banners and marquees will announce your presence and position at any event, making you easy to find.

This pop-up branded gazebo, measuring 2m high to the valance, will ensure your stall can be found in the crowd! It has a sturdy aluminium frame with a PVC canopy and interchangeable side wall options, perfect for protecting staff, visitors and merchandise from the sun, wind or rain. It can be printed full-colour to 3 walls, the roof and the valance, offering a huge print area and a fantastic branding opportunity—and ensuring your stall can be recognised from all sides.

Our heavy duty portable banner really makes a bold statement. The banner is 510gsm PVC, so suitable for all weathers, and is supplied with elasticated fixings to attach it to its sturdy frame. This large banner offers full-colour digital printing on a generous print area of 1m x 3m, ensuring nobody will miss your branding!

You could also consider branded t-shirts for staff or event organisers, ensuring they stand out from the crowd in your company colours and spread your message!

Our best-selling Spiro Impact Softex Tee is available in a range of shades to complement or match your company colours and is made from super soft quick dry fabric with HighTec stretch. It’s comfy to wear and will turn your representatives into walking billboards for your brand.

The Best Promotional Products for Outdoor Events

Choosing the best promotional products for outdoor events depends on their purpose. Are you selling it, or giving it away?

The best outdoor promotional products to sell

Branded merchandise can do more than just promote your business—it can also generate a revenue stream. But you always need to consider the event type when picking promotional products for outdoor events.

If it’s a sporting event, fun run or golf day, what about a branded sports bottle? Our 333ml Watersaver™ Sports Bottle is UK/EU food safety certificated and a more eco-friendly option than standard plastic sports bottles, as it’s partly recycled, fully recyclable and ultimately biodegradable. It’s also dishwasher safe. You can mix and match body and cap colours and your logo can be printed on both sides or as a wrap-around. Available from just 93p per bottle, it’s a great promotional product for outdoor events in the peak of summer or where physical activity is involved!

British weather being what it is, there’s a fair chance it might rain—so some of the best-selling promotional products for outdoor events are items to help visitors, festival-goers (and even other stallholders, stand staff or event organisers!) stay dry, such as branded umbrellas and promotional ponchos!

Our Super Budget Umbrella starts from only £6.53 per unit with 1 colour printing to 1 panel (further customisation is available). This great value umbrella is standard size with a stylish handle and has an automatic opening mechanism. It offers an eye-catching way to promote your business and of course, it’s just as useful as a sunshade—so suitable for all weathers.

This one-size rain poncho is supplied carefully folded for portability in a clear polybag with a sticker, which has a print area of 96 x 68mm just waiting for your full-colour branding. These promotional ponchos are guaranteed to sell like hot cakes as soon as the skies darken!

The best outdoor promotional products to give away

Of course, promotional merchandise is often used solely to do just that—not to make money, but to promote your business or services by giving away items to provoke interest or relay information. It can be used to encourage or reward attendance at an event, or provide a memento of an event. Whatever the purpose of the giveaway, it will promote your business best if it’s seen or used often, so it needs to be useful or look good—preferably both!

So here are our top outdoor promotional products to give away…

To encourage or reward attendees

Who doesn’t love a goody bag or free gift? Knowing there’s one on offer if they attend an event will encourage people to book places or turn up on the day, and everyone loves to take a goody bag home at the end of the day. You can choose one of our branded shopper bags and fill it with great promotional giveaways such as promotional pens, branded notebooks and promotional confectionery.

Our lowest price branded cotton bag is our Kingsbridge 5oz Cotton Tote Bag. Made from 140gsm cotton, this strong bag has long handles and offers a print area of 280mm x 280mm. It’s available on 5-day despatch from just 89p per bag.

For corporate fun days or family fun days, choose games or toys for your goody bags that the whole family can enjoy. This Nylon Folding Flying Disc is a fun, lightweight, easily transportable frisbee-style toy. In a base colour of white, this flying disc and the pouch (in which it conveniently folds away) both feature a contrasting trim in a choice of over 200 colours. Full-colour printing is available to both the disc (print area 200mm) and pouch (print area 80mm), so it offers a great branding opportunity.

Another great outdoor promotional item for corporate or family fun days is our 6 panel Branded Inflatable Beach Ball available in a range of either solid colours or alternate white/colour panels. This fun branded item offers a print area of 55 x 55mm on a panel and will catch everyone’s eye as it bounces around, flashing your logo as it goes!

We also have a large range of Promotional Golf Giveaways of all kinds—accessories, clothing and course dressing items—ideal for golf days.

To provide a lasting memento of an event

Our Branded Wristbands make great mementoes and collectables, and a good-looking wristband will continue to be worn long after your event. Available from just 19p per unit, this Silicone Wristband can be Pantone matched and either printed or debossed with your logo or message.

Whatever type of outdoor event you’re organising or attending, we can help you with memorable merchandise. So email us for more great ideas or give our team a call on 0345 226 1701 for a one-to-one chat.

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How to Use Branded Umbrellas to Promote Your Company

Chris — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 14:12:53 +0000

Promotional umbrellas are a marketing staple. By their very nature, umbrellas offer a generous print area and a very visible branding opportunity. They also tend to stand the test of time and are usually kept by recipients for years – who doesn’t have a few business logo umbrellas stored in their hallway or car for a rainy day?!

In the UK, we have plenty of rainy days every year, meaning there are multiple occasions when custom printed umbrellas with your logo could be out on display for all to see. Your recipients will get a warm, fuzzy (and dry!) feeling when they remember it’s your company that supplied the umbrella that’s protecting them form a torrential downpour! And they might attract envious looks from passers-by, who may be wishing they had one of your promotional umbrellas to keep them dry too—as they stare at your logo and, consciously or subconsciously, take note of your company name.

Types of custom printed umbrellas with logo

Of course, umbrellas are not just umbrellas! Umbrella printing can be done on many different types of umbrella, and some offer the chance of customising the handle as well as the canopy.

The type of promotional umbrella that’s correct for your marketing campaign and business depends on where you will be selling or giving them away and also your target audience. Branded budget umbrellas, promotional golf brollies, mini umbrellas, branded telescopic umbrellas, walking umbrellas… how will you choose?

With our help, of course! Here’s a rundown of the types of business logo umbrellas— and our suggestions for which audiences and events they may be best suited for—along with some top product picks.

Branded budget umbrellas

Umbrellas don’t have to be expensive to make an impact and we have some great value budget umbrellas that are nonetheless sturdy and attractive—and just waiting for umbrella printing and customisation to turn them into a moving advertisement for your business!

Our lowest-priced budget umbrella is the Super Budget Umbrella, at prices starting from just £6.53 a unit with 1-colour printing on one panel It’s a walking size umbrella with an automatic opening mechanism and a stylish handle, offering high impact for a low price. Suitable for all audiences and most events!

Promotional golf brollies

Branded golf umbrellas are always popular, whether they’re featured at a golfing day or not. Their large size and sturdy construction mean they’re great for two people or more to shelter under and ideal when it’s windy or the rain is coming down at an angle! Their large size is a bonus for businesses too because of the large printing area and big, bold advertising opportunity it offers.

Golf umbrellas are a great promotional item for corporate golf days but also do well at other outdoor events, especially those where there are large crowds of spectators who may be standing in the rain for a long time. They’re great for families, those who love outdoor pursuits and for people who like to keep a big umbrella in their car!

The Fibrestorm golf umbrella is one of our most popular UK-made business logo umbrellas. It has a storm-proof, stylish lightweight fibreglass frame and a pistol grip handle. With a very impressive diameter of 1300mm, it offers plenty of space for your branding via umbrella printing—and with 23 handle options and over 50 panel colours available, there’s lots of scope for complete customisation!

Portability: A telescopic or mini custom printed umbrella with logo

Of course, big isn’t necessarily best. People on the go tend to favour promotional folding umbrellas or smaller umbrellas they can tuck into a bag. Promotional folding umbrellas are also great giveaways to take to events as they take up less space than their bigger umbrella buddies, leaving you more room for other types of promotional merchandise.

Our Fare AOC Mini Umbrella is a compact telescopic umbrella with a rubberised handle. It comes with a cover and has a length of just 280mm when closed. This handy little promotional folding umbrella is available in 17 eye-catching colours, so it’s easy to find one that matches or complements your company colours. Small but perfectly proportioned!

Its big brother, the FARE Style AC Midsize Umbrella, is a larger, storm-proof telescopic umbrella measuring 890mm in length when closed. With flexible fibreglass ribs and a soft touch crook handle, this stylish umbrella comes in sophisticated anthracite grey with 10 trim and handle colours to choose from. Suitable for a discerning audience who appreciate a stylish yet portable umbrella.

Vented umbrellas

What on earth is a vented umbrella, we hear you ask? It’s a style of umbrella favoured by professional golfers and incorporates vents that allow gusts of wind to pass through, which makes it able to withstand the buffeting that some other umbrellas can’t!

Widely used on the professional circuit, our Supervent golf umbrella has two canopies that incorporate a vent, ideal for breezy days, and a sturdy fibreglass frame with storm-proof ribs, great for rough weather. There’s also a rubber golf grip handle, helping users keep hold of the Supervent even when the wind has other ideas!

This novel, high-quality golf umbrella is really eye-catching. It offers a print area of print area of 280 x 180mm and is available in a range of solid colours or colour/white combinations, all guaranteed to make your branding look striking. Supervent golf umbrellas are the perfect promotional umbrellas for golf days, outdoor events or family fun days.

Walking umbrellas

Walking umbrellas comfortably cover one person but can keep shelter two people at a squeeze! They’re the everyday-size umbrella owned and used by millions of people, which makes them the ideal promotional item whatever the event or audience.

Our Classic Wood Crook Umbrella is a walking umbrella with a traditional look, with a wooden stem and rounded, crook-style handle. However, it’s not old-fashioned; it has an automatic opening mechanism and its wide range of solid colour and colour/white combinations combine with umbrella printing to create a highly customisable and attractive promotional item.

We’ve highlighted just a few of our umbrellas here, so if you want to know more about any of our promotional umbrellas or discuss our wide range of branding options, contact us. We love to help our customers make the most of their budget and you can email us or call us on 0345 226 1701 to discuss your requirements and take advantage of our marketing expertise!

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7 Cheap Promotional Products on a Budget

Chris — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 12:04:48 +0000

If money is tight, it’s easy to convince yourself there’s no room in the budget for promotional products or branded gifts for clients. But here at BH1, we have a wide range of cheap promotional products to get your name out there with even the smallest budget.

Let’s look at seven types of budget branded products.

1. Promotional Fridge Magnets

Our branded fridge magnets are fun promotional products that quite literally tend to stick around! When clients or their employees go to the office fridge or even their fridge at home, they will always catch sight of your branded fridge magnet, and of course, fridge magnets can be stuck to magnetic whiteboards and other magnetic surfaces too. Wherever they’re stuck, they’re handy for holding notes, lists and vouchers safely.

Our two cheapest fridge magnets are arguably two of our most useful! From just 36p per piece, this Magnetic Ballpoint Pen can write your note as well as hold it against a surface. Available in black or white, it’s flat to allow it to sit tightly against surfaces, which gives it an ideal area for branding.

Also from 36p per unit, our Flexible Fridge Clip Magnet has a handy clip to hold papers securely and comes in a choice of rectangular, house or telephone shapes, allowing you to choose the shape that fits your company best—and full-colour branding is available.

2. Branded Bookmarks

Our promotional bookmarks are great giveaways at events and conferences. From just 23p a unit, this quirky Shaped Magnetic Bookmark is bound to draw attention (and make people notice your logo!). Made from laminated gloss card, it can be full-colour printed and the front section can be cut to any workable shape. A really eye-catching promotional product to have on a stall at a trade fair or exhibition!

Another unusual item in our budget branded bookmarks range is this Folding Magnetic Bookmark. The price includes full-colour printing and cutting to any shape.

3. The Branding Classic: Promotional Pens

Who doesn’t have a branded pen in their office or their home? Promotional pens are one of the best value branded items, ensuring your branding gets seen again and again on a genuinely useful item—and while we have some premium branded pens here at BH1, we also have budget plastic pens that are among our cheapest promotional products.

Our Flamenco Ballpoint Pen is priced from just 10p per piece and has a contrasting barrel, matching cap and end plug. It’s available in a wide variety of colour combinations to complement your company colours and logo.

If you prefer a greener but budget option, our eco-friendly Ecostick Ballpoint Pen is made from recycled cardboard, available in natural, green, red and blue. And it’s a bargain, priced from just 12p per unit.

4. Branded Trolley Tokens

Our promotional trolley coins or trolley token keyrings will be used every time your recipients go to the supermarket ). This 12 Sided Plastic Trolley Coin Key Ring is a great, low cost choice. Made in the UK from 100% recycled plastic, it’s an eco-friendly promotional product that can be printed in full colour with your logo from just 18p per piece.

5. Promotional Wristbands

Ideal for conferences, festivals, trade fairs and other events, wristbands are popular cheap promotional products, mainly because of their versatility and brand exposure possibilities. An eye-catching wristband may be kept as a souvenir and might be worn for months or years after the event at which it was given away.

Our range of branded wristbands at BH1 includes fabric, silicone and towelling wristbands. This promotional Silicone Wristband, at prices starting from only 19p a unit, can be Pantone matched to complement your company colours, and either printed or debossed with your logo.

If you’re not keen on silicone wristbands, you may prefer this Full-Colour Fabric Wristband, which comes with a choice of either a metal or plastic adjuster. The print area covers the entire wristband at 350 x 15mm.

6. Branded Button Badges

Our branded button badges are a favourite budget promotional item. They can be used to ask a question, answer a question, inspire curiosity or just display your contact details! Whatever you decide to use them for in your marketing campaigns, they’re a cheap giveaway item that won’t break the bank.

Our cheapest button badge, the 32mm Button Badge, is available at prices from only 8p per item, making it one of the very cheapest promotional products we sell. It’s also an express item, available on 3-day dispatch. You have the option of a plastic back with safety pin or a steel ring and pin.

7. Promotional Keyrings

These branded keyrings are another item that will get constant use, giving you frequent and prolonged brand exposure, and at BH1 we have a large selection of different keyring types. They’re a great giveaway on university welcome weeks and freshers’ weeks, when students may have just got the keys to their new rental properties.

Our cheapest metal keyring is this Metal Domed Key Fob, available in oval and oblong shapes from only 53p per piece. Your branding can be printed in full colour on the domed decal.

For something a little different, what about keyrings with bottle openers? Our budget offering is this Metal Bottle Opener Key Ring, available in a range of colours to complement your branding: black, blue, green, red, yellow or silver. This handy dual-purpose keyring starts at just 35p per piece and offers a 30 x 6mm print area.

Another twist is a branded torch keyring. Our Super Handy Torch Keyring starts from just 49p and features a useful, slimline white torch that can be branded with your logo, attached to a sturdy metal keyring. It’s also available on 3-day dispatch—useful for marketing in a hurry!

For more budget marketing ideas, check out more of our low cost promotional giveaways or contact us. At BH1, we are award-winning experts in the field of promotional merchandise and no query (or budget!) is too small! So why not email us today or call us on 0345 226 1701 for some great advice on how to make the most of your marketing budget?

Top 10 Executive Christmas Gifts for Clients

Chris — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:13:53 +0000

Executive ‘thank you’ gifts are always a great way of showing your appreciation to your top clients, and the festive period is the perfect time to say thank you and promote your company at the same time! It’s the season of giving, so try to up your game by selecting gifts a little classier than the standard promotional items you send out. This doesn’t mean spending a fortune—you can just choose high perceived value gifts that are more sophisticated than the standard promotional giveaways. At BH1, we have a great range of executive branded gifts to help you say thank you and send seasonal greetings to your clients.

Tech gifts for clients

You might not think of tech items as classic promotional corporate gifts, but in today’s digital world, tech gifts are likely to be appreciated and well-used, meaning your branding is seen frequently.

This Premium Tech Gift Set offers a great branding opportunity. Supplied from UK stock, the set contains a Smart Power Tower, Connexion+ charging cable and the Smart Epic Speaker, all of which can be branded with a high-quality UV full-colour print or engraving, supplied in a premium gift box with full-colour printing.

Tech gifts might be far from ‘natural’, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be eco-friendly. Our Bamboo X Bluetooth Speaker sounds and looks amazing, but it’s a brilliant eco-friendly promotional gift too.

The casing is made out of durable bamboo and the fabric is made from a blend of 30% Organic cotton, 40% hemp and 30% recycled PET. The 5W speaker uses high-quality components to guarantee longevity and the 1.500 mAh battery offers up to 8 hours playtime on a single charge. This impressive speaker uses Bluetooth 4.2 for a super smooth connection and has an operating distance up to 10 metres. There’s an area on the front for your branding, ensuring your logo is prominently displayed and that your company is brought to mind every time your recipients use it and think how cool it is!

Like it or not, we’ve all become slaves to charging ports for our Smartphones and devices, so the Xoopar iLo Hub will be a welcome addition to any workplace—and offers a novel branding opportunity. This clever device is a charging hub for smartphones and includes a switching plug system for Type-C, micro USB and 8 pin devices and it can be laser-engraved to reveal your light up logo! It also offers a choice of blue, white, red, orange and green for the body and LED colours.

Office gifts for clients

Notebooks, branded pens, pen sets and office gadgets and accessories make welcome gifts for clients at Christmas.

Our Autograph Excelsior Set contains a high-quality ballpoint pen and a rollerball pen with chrome trim, supplied with a double pen pouch in an elegant gift box. Both pens can be printed with your logo beside the clip and you can choose black, white or silver pens.

A high-quality notebook is a sophisticated and useful promotional gift. The Moleskine brand is synonymous with top-end notebooks and at BH1, we have several to choose from, including the impressive Extra Large Moleskine Classic Notebook, which measures 250 x 190 x 15mm and can be branded with your logo or message on the front cover. Available in sapphire blue, scarlet red and black, this hardcover notebook has 192 lined ivory pages (70gsm), an elasticated closure, a ribbon bookmark and an expandable pocket on the inside of the back cover.

If you’re unsure whether to treat your clients to a notebook or a pen, the obvious answer is to buy them both! This stylish CROSS A5 Journal and Stratford Ballpoint Pen Gift Set is an ideal executive gift that includes an elegant A5 journal (available in black, midnight blue, crimson or white) alongside a high-quality CROSS Stratford ballpoint pen (available in pure chrome, satin chrome or satin black). Both the journal and pen can be branded with your logo and they’re supplied in a luxury gift box.

But office gifts aren’t limited to stationery. Our Digital Desk Clock is a useful, clever and quirky office accessory that will display the time, date, day and temperature no matter which way you urn it! It also has timer and alarm functions, useful for when your clients have somewhere important to be. With space for your branding on the front, this cool clock is available in black, white, red or blue.

Christmas Gifts for Clients on the Go

If your clients are often travelling to meetings, they will need accessories that help them take everything they need with them.

That’s where this Elleven iPad Zippered Case comes in. This handy case isn’t just ideal for iPads; its tech trap elastic interior will hold most tablets, smartphones and mobile devices. There’s also a front zippered pocket with business card holders, loops to hold pens and USBs, and a handy lined pad with 30 sheets for taking notes during meetings or while travelling. This durable case can be branded on the front with your company logo or message.

Another option is our stylish but surprisingly affordable Offset Convention Messenger Bag. This useful bag has a large main compartment, an interior mesh pocket designed to carry documents, a front flap hook and loop closure and handy open pockets on the front. The front left panel can be branded, and the bag is available with black, red, royal blue or lime trim.

Finally, items that perform multiple functions while taking up a small space make welcome executive Christmas gifts for clients on the go. Our high-quality Victorinox Classic SD Swiss Army Knife is the perfect travel companion. This handy multipurpose gadget includes a blade, nail file, screwdriver, scissors, keyring, tweezers and toothpick. It’s Swiss-made with a lifetime guarantee and available in red, blue, black, white, transparent red and transparent blue, and of course, there’s generous space for your logo.

These are just a few of our branded Christmas gift ideas suitable for executives. For more ideas or to discuss branding options, contact us. You can email us or call the BH1 team on 0345 226 1701 – we’re ready and waiting to help you wow your clients with great executive Christmas gifts!

Our Christmas Confectionery Range

Chris — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:03:56 +0000

Get ready and indulge this Christmas with our special 2019 winter range of promotional chocolates, sweets and confectionery.

Branded Advent Calendars

Branded advent calendars ensure that your customers see your name for weeks on end and they’re a great way to give customers and staff a long-lasting sweet treat! Our chocolate advent calendars are filled with delicious solid Belgian milk chocolates that are guaranteed vegetarian, halal and kosher. We can supply promotional 12-Day Advent Calendars (12 chocolates), Desktop Advent Calendars (24 chocolates) or Traditional Advent Calendars (25 chocolates), and there’s a range of attractive Christmas designs to choose from.

Gifts for a Greener Christmas: Eco-Friendly Promotional Items

Christmas can be really bad for the environment, with packaging and waste galore. So, with everyone striving to be more eco-conscious these days, why not give eco-friendly Christmas gift? Our Eco Info card features a card made from recyclable cardboard and an attached treat bag made of a compostable eco-film, which is produced from eucalyptus trees! Fill the bag with your choice of foil-wrapped festive chocolate sprouts, foil-wrapped chocolate balls in gold or silver, or shiny chocolate honeycomb pieces. Your staff or customers get a tasty treat and you get to feel good that your gifts are kind to the environment!

Eco Info Card

Eco Kraft Cube

You might want to opt for the Eco Kraft Cube instead, which can be filled with foil-wrapped chocolate balls, or sprouts, or Celebrations chocolates instead, which always go down well! The cubes have a branded paper wrap for your logo or message.

Keep an eye out for some of our other promotional Christmas confectionery items that come in reusable tins. Reduce, reuse, recycle!

Sparkling Festive Treats

We all want some figgy pudding, we all want some figgy pudding… fudge! Fudge is a firm festive favourite, but we’ve given it an extra twist for Christmas: the fudge in our Ballotin boxes is Christmas-pudding-flavoured! This delicious festive fudge, in our luxurious shiny gold Ballotin boxes tied with white ribbon, makes a gift that tastes as good as it looks–and there’s a gift tag just waiting to be branded with your logo.

Ballotin Box

Another luxurious gift is our lovely Bauble Tin, decorated with snowflakes and gold stars. It comes filled with foil-wrapped white chocolate champagne truffles and a hanging ribbon so that recipients with willpower can hang their chocolate-filled bauble on the tree and wait until the big day to open it! It looks great on the tree and can be refilled and reused next year, too.

Bauble Tin

Christmas Chocolate Treat Bags, Tins and Trays

Our beautiful, chocolate-filled organza bags have a ribbon closure and are available in nine colours, so there’s bound to be one that matches your branding perfectly. They can be filled with silver and gold foil-wrapped chocolate balls, chocolate sprouts or silver and gold foil-wrapped chocolate coins, while the attached gift card can be branded with your logo or message.

Organza Bag

Christmas Star Tins

If you’d prefer to give a tin of chocolates, our festive-themed mini Star Tins or Tree Tins are ideal. They’re filled with shiny gold and silver chocolate balls and branded with a full-colour dome label. Not only are the tins reusable, but you can also repurpose them as Christmas cookie cutters!

Christmas Chocolate Trays

We also offer branded trays of Christmas chocolates. Beautifully made Christmas pudding and Santa chocolates will get everyone in the festive spirit, or you can choose the champagne truffles or salted caramel squares for a touch of luxury. The clear film cover can be branded with a full-colour digital print, ensuring recipients don’t forget who sent them this delicious treat!

Christmas pies and biscuits

Of course, not everyone can eat chocolate—and some people don’t like it! If your recipients fall into either of these categories, or you just want to give something different, then we’ve got you covered with our promotional Christmas gifts. Nothing quite says Christmas like mince pies, so why not put staff and customers in the seasonal spirit with a branded tin of these festive favourites? Our promotional Snack Tin filled with four mini buttered mince pies is just the ticket if you’re looking for small gifts.

Gold square tin

Mince pies are also available in these striking square gold tins decorated with black ribbon. Available in two sizes (196g and 325g), these tins are branded with a full-colour domed label and can be repurposed after all the delicious pies are gone (so quite quickly, then!).

Christmas treat tins

And for those who don’t like chocolate or mince pies (we’re reliably informed these people do exist!), consider biscuits. Our Treat Tins, available in two designs, can be ordered with Celebrations, Quality Street or—ta-da!—mini buttered shortbread biscuits.

Sunray share tins

For a more generous gift or an office gift for everyone to share, we also offer Sunray Share Tins, which can be filled with Belgian chocolate cookies or mini butter shortbread biscuits and branded with an eye-catching, full-colour domed sticker.

Christmas, All Wrapped Up

Not sure what to choose? Want to give your recipients a little of everything? Then our gift boxes, gift tins and hampers are the answer. Our gift boxes contain a selection of festive goodies and have a large, full-colour domed label on the lid. They’re available in three sizes, from mini (containing a Bauble Tin of champagne truffles, a 20g Milk Chocolate Bar and two 7rmm Chocolate Medallions) to maxi (containing a Large Gold Tin of mince pies, a Snack Tin of Christmas pudding fudge, a 125mm Chocolate Medallion, a tray of Salted Caramels, Hot Choc on a Spoon, a Walnut Whirl, a tin of Chocolate Caviar Pearls and a Star Tin filled with foil-wrapped chocolate balls).

Festive Midi Gift Hamper

Our hampers also come in mini, midi and maxi sizes. They’re tied and decorated with white ribbon and include a large, full-colour card tag for your branding. Our Midi Hamper includes a Snack Tube of mini shortbread biscuits, a Chocolate Selection Box, a 40g Milk Chocolate Bar, a Walnut Whirl and a Mini Paint Tin filled with champagne truffles.

Naturally, our branded Christmas confectionery range doesn’t end there, so for more delicious festive treats and inspiration, download our colour Christmas Confectionery Brochure. For detailed pricing and advice on Christmas Confectionery or other festive gifts, get in touch by calling us on 0345 226 1701 or sending us an email.

10 Festive Corporate Christmas Stocking Fillers

Chris — Sat, 09 Nov 2019 00:10:50 +0000

Corporate Christmas stockings provide a fun, festive, feelgood twist to your marketing campaigns. Receiving a Christmas stocking full of festive gifts is bound to get clients and staff alike in the Christmas spirit. It will help to keep staff motivated in what’s probably your busiest period and it will fill clients with warm, fuzzy feelings towards you and your business (making your name more likely to spring to mind in the New Year, when there’s new business to be done).

Here at BH1, we can supply both a branded Christmas stocking and all the promotional stocking fillers you need.

To start: Your Branded Christmas Stocking

This branded jolly Christmas Stocking in festive red can be branded across its white top with your logo, reminding recipients who Santa really is. It’s 32cm long, so ideal for a host of small gifts, making it the perfect corporate Christmas stocking.

Next: Your Promotional Stocking Fillers

Below are a few of our top suggestions, but you can find more great promotional items on our promotional Christmas gift ideas pages and throughout our site.

Branded diaries and notebooks

Clients and staff will appreciate a new notebook or diary to start their New Year—a practical gift that’s ideal to help them with a new start and their New Year’s resolutions!—so both items make great promotional stocking fillers. At BH1, we have a large range of branded diaries and promotional notebooks. Here are some ideal for popping in those promotional stockings:

Our Castelli Tucson A5 Weekly Diary is a classy and eco-friendly promotional product. Made from responsibly and sustainably sourced paper, this promotional diary is blind embossed with the year on the front and has a soft touch padded PU cover and silver page edges. On the outside, your branding can be embossed on the cover, and on the inside, you’ll find a week to view portrait layout, plain ribbon marker and UK/World maps. It’s available in China blue, red or sky blue.

If you prefer a branded notebook, why not give your recipients the king of notebooks—a Moleskine? It is Christmas, after all! Our Moleskine Classic Pocket Notebook is designed to impress, with 192 lined pages in ivory, a handy pocket for loose papers, an elasticated ribbon closure and a space at the front for personal contact details in case of loss. A Moleskine history is also tucked inside an inner expandable pocket. This sophisticated notebook is available in sapphire blue, scarlet red and black and is an essential filler for all corporate Christmas stockings!

A Cuddly Christmas Stocking Filler

This 8 inch Buster Bear with T-shirt is the cuddly toy every corporate Christmas stocking needs. It’s also perfect for popping in stockings you’re giving to employees’ families or donating to children’s charities or wards. Buster is a cute little bear wearing a white t-shirt that can be branded with your logo.

Sweet Treats

No stocking is complete without some sweet festive treats and at BH1, there are promotional chocolates and branded sweets to suit every budget and need.

Our Jar Of Coloured Matched Humbugs presents a fantastic branding opportunity. The square glass jar containing traditional humbugs has a large label that stretches from lid to jar front and can be printed in full colour. The humbugs are made to order, allowing you to choose the colour (and flavour) that best complements your company colours and branding.

One of our most popular promotional chocolate products, our Chocolate Coated Honeycomb Cube makes an ideal Christmas gift and a great filler for your corporate Christmas stockings. The transparent cube has a metallic foil wrap ready for your branding and it’s filled with delicious honeycomb pieces hand dusted in metallic gold and bronze—just the glittery touch you need for that festive feeling! If you prefer, your cubes can be filled with our popular gold and silver foiled milk chocolate balls instead.

A Cup of Christmas Cheer

Winter is the time for a warming drink, so an attractive branded mug for hot chocolate or a mulled beverage or two is a welcome sight in a corporate Christmas stocking. This Duraglaze Rim and Handle PhotoMug is independently tested to BS EN 12875-4 to over 2000 washes, 100% dishwasher proof and offers full-colour dye sublimation around the mug The handle and rim are available in 12 colours.

Promotional Wellbeing Gifts

To encourage your staff and clients to start off their New Year in the right way, why not pop some promotional wellbeing gifts in their stocking? This Wellbeing Handy Can allows you to do just that! It contains hand sanitiser, hand cream, lip balm, energy sweets and tissues, and can be printed full colour on the wrap-around label.

Cheap promotional stocking fillers

If money is tight and you’re looking for promotional stocking fillers that are not just small in size, but small in price, don’t worry: we’ve got you covered. We have a great range of budget branded stocking fillers. All the promotional stocking fillers below are available from £1 or under per item.

There’s probably not a better time of year to receive the gift of a bottle opener, and our Paddle Bottle Opener is available from just £1 per piece. This sturdy, metal, double-ended bottle opener has a large central space that can be branded with your company’s logo or message, catching the eye of recipients at Christmas and throughout the year whenever they crack open a bottle!

Talking of useful gifts–which always make the best promotional items, allowing your logo to be seen frequently—pens are members of the promotional royal family, and always well-received. Our Salina Classic Soft Touch Ballpoint Pen is one of our bestsellers and available with full-colour branding from just 63p per piece. This classy-looking pen gives the impression it should be much more expensive than it is, with its soft colour-coated aluminium casing, smart chrome clip, nose cone and trim, and a stylus compatible with all touchscreen devices. It’s also available in 13 different shades so that you can choose one that complements your company colours.

These promotional Candy Cane Cards are a cheerful yet cheap promotional stocking filler, costing from just 80p per piece. These festive cards have space for full-colour branding and each one holds a tasty peppermint candy cane in Christmas colours.

If you need any advice on branding options, promotional stocking fillers or corporate Christmas stockings, contact us. The team here at BH1 are on hand to help, so drop us an email or call us on 0345 226 1701 to discuss your needs or find out about our latest offers.

Introducing our Branded Power Bank Chargers

Chris — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 09:19:05 +0000

Branded power banks are always popular promotional items because in today’s world, charging devices are essential and well used, meaning your brand logo is seen frequently and you earn brownie points for providing a really useful corporate gift!

This month, our trending product is the new bPay power bank, which is the king of portable chargers and more useful than your average promotional power bank! That’s because it combines the benefits of a portable power bank with a contactless payment device.

The power bank payment fob has a 450mAh battery and a built in 2-in-1 branded charging cable, compatible with both lightning and Micro-USB devices.

The bPay links to any Visa or MasterCard debit or credit card registered in the UK and can be used for any purchases £30 and under. Users can also monitor their spending and top up their account by using the bPay app.

And it’s completely brandable!

bPay Features

450mAh battery – emergency power when your battery is critically low.
Lightning & Micro-USB connections – compatible with iPhone Lightning and Micro-USB devices.
Charge your devices – flexi-cable for easy accessibility.
Built in bPay chip – the bPay chip doesn’t require power, mobile signal or phone connectivity, so you won’t need to worry if the battery is flat.
You don’t need a Barclays account – bPay links to any Visa or MasterCard debit or credit card.
bPay is just as safe as chip and pin – all payments have the same fraud protection applied as contactless cards.
bPay on transport in London – bPay can be used on the London overground, tube, DLR tram and buses.

Branding the bPay

The bPay comes in several standard colours
Print dimensions – 55 x 30mm
1-4 spot colour print or a full colour print
Pantone match colour for orders over 1,000 units
Cable pantone match colour for orders over 5,000 units

Packaging the bPay

Premium window box
Magnetic window cover
Soft touch finish
124 x 82.5 x 21mm
Bespoke packaging for orders over 1,000

In April 2017, there were 416.3 million contactless transactions in the UK alone. Contactless payments are becoming increasingly popular, so now is a brilliant time to give your clients a branded bPay powerbank to increase the visibility of your brand.

More Branded Power Banks with Extras

Here at BH1, we also stock branded power bank folders and a handy promotional power bank set.

Our bestselling power bank folder is the stylish Almeria travel folder with power banks, featuring a handy front flap compartment, mobile phone pocket, pen loop, 3 elastic straps and a hand loop. Your logo can be printed on the front. With 4000mAh capacity and 2.1A output, the power bank is suitable for Smartphones and tablets. There’s also a built-in micro USB and 8 pin cable.

The good-looking Smart Power Dynamic Lite is a cylinder power bank with a 2200mAh capacity and 1A output, suitable for mobile phones. Available in silver, black, blue, red and green, it incorporates a handy torch and can be branded with your logo.

Our Crystal Gift Set presents a brilliant branding opportunity. The set contains a 3000mAh power bank, 2GB USB memory stick and wireless mouse, which can all be printed full colour with your branding, as can the box.

Looking for alternative promotional power banks?

Then take a look at our bestseller: the Velocity 4400mAh Power Bank. It has a 4400mAh capacity and a 1.5A output: 1.5A, suitable for smartphones, and isn’t so standard after all: it has a built-in emergency flashlight! It’s available in Black, light blue, light green, orange, pink, purple, red and white to match your branding,and comes with a micro USB cable. Your logo can be printed on the top side in full colour, ensuring it’s seen every time a client brings out your useful gift.

Need sales assistance?

For further information about the bPay power bank, or any of our other promotional power banks, speak to one of the team by calling 0345 226 1701 or email us and we will be happy to help.

Use It or Lose It! How to Maximise Your End of Year Budget

Chris — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 09:04:40 +0000

The end of the financial year is fast approaching. It’s time to sort out the remaining marketing budget before all the fresh challenges and goals that April’s budget brings.

Have you thought about how you are going to spend the rest of this year’s budget?

Unspent budget can be lost at the end of the financial year; you don’t want to waste your budget, nor do you want to spend it on items that aren’t going to benefit you or your company.

With careful planning and a little foresight you can use this year’s end of year budget to good effect, so that it helps with next year’s marketing targets, whilst ensuring you maximise every available pound. What better way to do this than with printed promotional products?

Promotional merchandise offers a great way to get your marketing message out into the marketplace by delivering a useful tangible product, right into your client’s hands and all branded up with your logo and message.

Here are some tips that will not only help make the most of any left over pounds but how to use them effectively as well.

Buy For The Year and Stock Up

This is a great tip and one worth considering every time you order promotional items, but especially for this time of year! We frequently receive repeat orders only a few days after the initial order has been delivered and this is typically because the items have either proven to be so popular that they have run out, or perhaps more commonly, because other departments liked them so much that they have stolen them!

So, consider buying for the year or for at least a few months rather than just one event. That way you can service any extra demand as well as last minute campaigns or events that might sneak up on you. It also makes good financial sense as the more you buy, the more the unit price reduces.

Keep it Useful and Anticipate Future Needs

If you are unsure what type of gift/product to get with your remaining end of year budget then the old mantra of ‘keep it useful’ is certainly one to keep in mind. If you are looking for some inspiration then our dedicated budget promotional items section on our website can help.

Do you exhibit at trade shows, run annual conferences, give out staff incentive gifts or customer appreciation gifts? By anticipating these events you are proactively thinking about how to effectively use your remaining budget without wasting it.

Use Generic Artwork

In the fast moving marketing world of today, our marketing objectives change on a regular basis. Whilst one of the benefits of promotional merchandise is their ability to be extremely targeted by having any marketing message printed on them. It’s also worth considering having some generically branded promotional items with either something like, a company logo or website address, particularly at this time of year; that way if your marketing goals change in the new financial year, you can still use your existing items without having to go down the route of re-ordering because your corporate message has changed.

Allow Plenty of Time

March is a very busy month in general as everything draws to a close for this financial year, so ensure you allow plenty of time to get the items delivered and invoices to be raised and dated ready for your year end.

Speak to The Specialists

We understand that at this time of year things get forgotten and priorities change regularly. The team here specialise in promotional merchandise so get in touch with us and we can help right through from generating ideas lists, to proofing your artwork and ensuring everything is delivered on time and invoiced as quickly as possible.

Have a look at our budget ideas section for some great ideas. Alternatively if you would like to discuss your individual branding requirements then simply contact one of the team on 0345 226 1701 or via e-mail sales@bh1promotions.co.uk

Cool Promotional Items to Help with New Year’s Resolutions

Chris — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 11:44:13 +0000

Every year, millions of people set New Year’s Resolutions—including at least some of your clients! Yet according to stats from the US News & World Report, 80% of them let their resolutions fall by the wayside by the second week of February.

You can’t be there to coax and nag your clients to stick to their resolutions (and you might be struggling to keep your own!). But you can give them some of our cool promotional items to help them in their quest (unless it’s building a time-machine; not the kind of tech we carry).

Top New Year’s Resolutions

In recent years, every New Year’s Resolutions top ten has included health, fitness and wellbeing goals near the top (just like the list above!). In fact, in a BUPA/ComRes survey last year, the top 5 fell into this category:

Exercise more
Lose weight
Eat more healthily
Take a more active approach to health
Learn new skill or hobby

Other popular resolutions include getting more organised, spending more time on wellbeing, saving money and doing more travelling. There’s also a growing number of people determined to make their year a greener one. Here are our cool promotional items ideas to help your clients tackle some of these resolutions!

Promotional Gifts to Boost Their Health and Wellbeing

Luckily, we’ve got some great promotional gifts to help your customers stay on track with their health and fitness goals, including branded water bottles, activity trackers and protein shakers printed with your logo. Here are some of our favourites:

At the top of our list is the i-gotU Q-Band fitness tracker that will keep your clients on track. Staying motivated is usually biggest challenge when pursuing exercise goals. This sweat and splash resistant Arc 2.0 wireless branded activity tracker will help by monitoring their progress, and it’s also in our top ten cool promotional business items.

Benefits of fitness tracker

It allows users to monitor their activity levels and overall lifestyle, setting and tracking goals for steps and activity levels, and can be synced to a Smartphone or tablet via a free downloadable app
It provides vibration alerts from their synchronised device for incoming calls, voicemails and notifications
It will sync their status with their Smart device
It has a rechargeable Li-polymer battery for 10 day usage, Bluetooth 4.0 compatibility with a 10-metre transmission range, and a UV sun index alarm

Finally, it comes supplied with not one but three wrist straps (blue, orange and black) and individually gift boxed. Best of all, though, your clients won’t forget who gave them this cool promotional item, because the wrist strap can be engraved with your logo, making sure they keep your generosity and your brand in mind every time they use it!

The Tutti Frutti infuser bottle is a unique promotional product makes that healthiest of drinks, water, less boring! It’s a branded water bottle with a fruit infuser, so users can add fruit to their water for a refreshing taste and some healthy vitamins too. Your logo can be printed on the bottle and available trim colours are white, yellow and blue.

Clients may also appreciate the H2GO Filter Bottle, which filters their water as they drink. The replaceable filter lasts long enough to replace 300 single-use disposable bottles of water, making it a great eco-friendly giveaway. It’s available branded with your logo, in a red, black or blue trim.

For an even more eco-friendly option, treat them to our beautifully shiny Aluminium Water Bottle, which comes in a range of five metallic shades: black, silver, blue, red and green. Its screw top with a carabiner clip makes it a great travel accessory, too.

We also carry a great range of branded sportswear, which is great for promoting your brand. Our popular Gildan Adult Tech Hoodie comes in black, charcoal, green or navy, and has a large area available for your embroidered or printed logo.

Alternatively, what about branded sports balls? They make great executive corporate gifts. The gift of a promotional football might inspire a client to set up a team! It can be branded with your logo and, for orders of 2000 items or more, flood printed to match any Pantone shade.

We also stock promotional tennis balls, and branded table tennis balls (available in yellow or white).

Our branded sports bags make a useful, generous gift. With their large available print area, they’re ideal for your marketing campaigns. Our most popular is our great value Magnum Sports Bag, with a handy external side pocket and mesh water bottle holder. With strong handles and an adjustable shoulder strap, it’s available in black, blue, purple or red.

Promotional Items for Clients Keen to Travel

If your client’s resolution is to see more of the world this year, we have promotional product ideas to help there too.

To keep their valuables safe the Tile Mate Bluetooth Valuables Tracker. This bestselling Bluetooth tracker is paired to an app and will find your clients missing items in seconds, while then ‘Tile’ can be printed in full colour with your logo. What better time to see your brand than when, thanks to you, they’ve tracked down their lost valuables?

To keep them hydrated our Avenue Vasa Copper Vacuum Insulated Bottle. Travel—particularly air travel—can be dehydrating. This sturdy, insulated bottle comes in eight cool metallic shades and is idea for travel, keeping drinks icy cold for 48 hours or warm for 12 hours. Branding is available with your company logo and it’s supplied in a gift box.

If clients are travelling light, our Roll-Up Plastic Water Bottle might be handy. This 820ml bottle collapses flat when empty. It has a push pull lid with clear cap cover, a Carabiner style clip, and of course, your logo printed on the front.

Our promotional lip balms will come in handy too, while our branded hand sanitisers will help them stay them germ-free if they’re far from hand-washing facilities.

To carry their kit a branded travel bag. Our sturdy Sentinel Messenger Bag features a zipped main compartment with Velcro cover flap (which can be printed or embroidered with your logo and has a zipped pocket of its own). It also features an inside laptop pocket, a side mesh pocket for water bottles and an adjustable shoulder strap.

If you want to give a really cool promotional product, why not make up a travel gift set for your clients, all presented in a branded bag?

Cool promotional ideas for new hobbies

For those clients looking for a new hobby, what about juggling? It’s a great way to sharpen reflexes and keep fit! Why not inspire them with a Juggling Ball Set, available in a range of colours?

We also have a huge range of corporate golf gifts, while those clients wanting to get into bird watching or plane spotting (or just needing to find their logo golf balls?!) might appreciate our 8×21 Magnification Binoculars, supplied in a branded pouch with a cleaning cloth and individually boxed.

This Castelli Tucson A4 Daily Diary has a soft padded PU cover, day to view portrait layout, plain ribbon marker, and silver page edges. It’s an eco-friendly option as it’s produced from responsibly and sustainably sourced paper. Available in 8 colours with your logo embossed on the cover.

Promotional Product Ideas to Help Clients Get Organised

A surprising number of people still used paper-and-pen-based organisational tools instead of, or alongside, digital calendars and project planners. Those clients resolving to be more organised will appreciate our branded diaries, promotional metal pens and notebooks printed with your logo on the cover, or maybe one of our promotional calendars. Here are some of our most popular choices:

Printed metal pens are a more eco-friendly giveaway than plastic ones. This elegant Latina Ballpoint Pen, with lustrous gloss lacquer casing, bright chrome accents and a twist action mechanism, is a really stylish New Year promotional gift for your customers. Available barrels colours are dark blue, white, black, red and light blue, printed with your logo.

A spiral bound A5 Wiro Bound Notebook with 80 lined pages and a soft PU cover just waiting for your logo! Available in black, blue or red.

This popular A3 Wall Planner is printed on 170gsm silk or gloss art paper, with a handy notes section and has a large print area at the top for your company logo.

Finally, what about branded stress balls for clients struggling with their resolutions or a cool promotional gift that’s eco-friendly and kind to their credit card? Our branded mugs come in a variety of styles and will allow your customers to save up to 50p when buying their morning coffee from leading coffee shops such as Starbucks and Costa Coffee, and they’ll be cutting down on their use of plastic disposables.

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Looking for New Years promotional gifts?

For more information on branded New Year gifts for your clients, or any other type of promotional merchandise, then please call one of the team on 0345 226 1701 or email us. We will be happy to help!

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