Awesome Hank
Promotional Mugs have been one of the cornerstones of the promotional merchandise market for many years with literally millions of them being given away as business gifts in all sorts of places from football clubs to fast food outlets and everywhere in-between.There have been a number of improvements especially in terms of the design and manufacturing process with these superb promotional items and you can read all about them here.
Over the past few years there has been big advances in the method in which personalised mugs are printed. The beautiful, high gloss printed finish that can be achieved these days means that they have been elevated from the level of common or garden business gifts to the more lofty status of Corporate Gifts. Any company would be more than pleased to have their company logo seen on such extremely useful and highly attractive promotional products. Advances in the technology of printing inks has meant that it is now possible to reproduce a company logo in any number of individual colours or in in full colour and in a very high gloss finish. This improvement by itself has helped promotional mug sales to grow within the promotional gifts business annually for a number of years.
There a few different types of advertising mugs and here is a little bit of information regarding the most popular ones.
Earthernware Mugs
The best selling promotional mug is manufactured out of earthernware because it is a durable material that that will fire extremely well within the ovens with minimal wastage. Because of their low price they are used as promotional products in huge quantities.
Bone China Mugs
Bone China mugs are the Rolls Royce items of the promotional mugs world because they have such a classy look and feel. Many individuals of a particular age will still only drink tea from a bone china mug, absolutely none of this earthernware mug rubbish for them! Oh and don’t worry, the practice of using genuine bones to make the material is long past.
Plastic Mugs
I know exactly what is going through your mind now, plastic mugs, UGH! However I can assure you, that the plastic mugs of the past are far behind us. It’s no longer necessary to suffer having pieces of fine plastic in your coffee. Plastic mugs today are really well made from high grade materials and print wonderfully. That’s why they are just the thing for workshops or other places where they can take a lot more stick than the usual ceramic mugs.
So exactly what else is new with promotional mugs I hear you say. Well in the first place they can at last be branded inside the mug in addition to outside. Graphic designers can really be creative and a recent example had a beautiful snakes and ladders piece of artwork that ran around the rim, then into the inside of the mug and then back out again, it looked really stunning. Mug handles can now be branded in contrasting colours and you can now get a good variety of packaging that will turn your promotional mug into an item of promotional merchandise that any person would be proud to get.
It’s worth remembering that giving away merchandise such as promotional clothing is all well and good but just how long can a printed T-shirt or perhaps an embroidered polo shirt last in comparison to a bone china mug. Leather conference folders would very swiftly left in a drawer, promotional bottled water will be drunk and fast forgotte. However the good-looking advertising mugs will still be hanging there long afterwards as a reminder to your clients of who gave it to them. There really is no comparison is there?
Tags: Bone China Mugs, Personalised Mugs, Plastic Mugs, Printed Mugs, promotional mugs
Posted in Business · February 15th, 2010 · Comments (0)