With Clicker Univeral Remote with Bottle Opener, you’ll never have to encounter this problem again. This 2 in 1 product will keep you comfortably on your seats enjoying your favourite sports channel. With it’s multi function features, this gadget will serve as a handy and trusted promotional product!

Promotional Idea - Clicker Universal Remote with Bottle Opener

This promotional item can be branded with company logos to increase brand awareness among it’s target market. Being a functional item, this promotional idea increases visibility and exposure which works as free advertisements. This will enhance brand recall at the same time. With so many advantages incorporated into 1 nifty device, why not make this product your next promotional merchandise?

Does the Clicker Universal Remote with Bottle Opener reminds you of our in-house invention, the 4-in-1 Coolzee?

Do not hesitate to contact ODM for more details regarding customised promotional gifts.

For other slick promotional product you can use in your promotional campaign, check out:

• Skol PWP -Bottle opener and Lighter Promo 
• Ring Bottle Opener for your Beer Promos
• Promotional Gift Idea for Skippers, Fishermen and Boat Fans in general : The Octopus Suction Coolie
• Promo by Rudy Project – Adventure Tools
• Sport Promotional Gift – a Raincoat Poncho that fits in a key chain!

Great Start to Every Day Sweepstakes Promotion

This promotion is open to any US citizen. No purchase is necessary to enter or win this lucky draw. The promotion began last September and will be over en of February 2012. There are a great number of prizes to be won, including complete Le Creuset cookware sets! To participate simply visit www.farmlandfoods.com or www.facebook.com/FarmlandFoods and follow instructions to complete the online entry form and submit your entry. The lucky draw prizes are divided into three categories.

25 Grand Prize Winners

The lucky few to win a Grand prize  get to choose between a Le Creuset 6-pc. cast iron cookware set or a Le Creuset 8-pc. stainless steel cookware set.

Promotional Gifts by Le Creuset : cast iron cookware set form Farmland promotion

Promotional Gifts by Le Creuset : stainless steel cookware set form Farmland Promotion

First Prize Winners 

Prizes in this category include a wide variety of Farmland breakfast meats. Winners receive one year supplies of these items!

Promotional Gifts - Farmland Breakfast Products

Daily Prize Winners  

Winners get to choose one prize :

• Le Creuset 9” cast iron skillet
• Le Creuset 8” stainless non-stick omelet pan
• Le Creuset 9” bacon press
• Le Creuset 9.5” square skinny grill
• A case of Farmland products.

Promotional Gifts - Le Creuset cooking utensils

This promotion is certain to please any fan of cooking or good food. The prizes are high end gifts that make great incentives for potential customers to visit the Farmland website and potentially order their products.

Check out other cooking related promotions here :

• Promotional Products for the kitchen
• Customized Aprons to Promote your Brand or Country
• GWP Promotion – Measuring Spoon Set by Lea & Perrins
• Farmer’s Union: Win a Promotional Cooler
• Knife GWP: Promotional Frying Pan
• Saucepan clock : the perfect kitchen promo
• Promotional gift ideas for the vegetable industry : Veggie Pens
• New Promo Ideas for Packet Drinks.
• Bertolli olive oil promotions

The French supermarket, Leclerc, has found a way of profiting fro this custom. For the Christmas season, Leclerc has launched a cheese package promotion. They have packaged together a tasteful selection of cheeses making a ready prepared cheese platter for Christmas dinner.

Promotional Gifts - blackboard by Leclerc

What’s more to make this promotion more attractive they have added an on pack gift : a high quality blackboard. The blackboard makes the perfect incentive for purchase. It would be a practical decorative object for any kitchen or hall. Keep this blackboard in mind for Promotional Products 2012.

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• Christmas GWP Promo by Brighton – Storyland Musical Snow Globe
• Tangs Limited Edition 2012 Promotional Calendar
• “Fete des Rois” Promotional Gift Idea, France
• Promotional Packaging – Fur Coat for Zubrowka Vodka
• Promotional Gifts for Girls – Nail Varnish Kit by Remington in France
• Christmas & New Year Promo: Jacob’s Creek Champagne Glass

Fete des Rois promotional favours

After Christmas is over in France, the tradition is to celebrate the “Fete des Rois” (literally “Party for the Kings”).  The “Fete des Rois” corresponds to Epiphany and takes place on the 6th of January.

On this day, Christians celebrate the arrival of the three kings of Orient to Bethlehem. They came to visit and bring presents to the newborn baby Jesus.  One the most famous French customs for the “Fete des Rois” is the Galette des Rois.

"Fete des Rois" promotional lucky charm gift

The Galette des Rois is an almond flavored pie that has one quite original particularity.  Hidden inside the pie is a “feve”, which is french for good luck charm. Once the pie is cut up, everyone takes a slice and whoever bites into the “feve” when eating is crowned King or Queen and even receives a paper gold crown!

This tradition has become so popular in France that even none christian French celebrate people this day each year. Each and every French school, company, and family will share a Galette at tea time, in the afternoon of the 6th of january!

Here is an ongoing promotion, held by Vahine, a french cake ingredient specialist.

For each packet of Almond filling bought, customers receive a free feve promo figurine. This promotion wins our approval for being both original and practical. No need to go feve hunting for hours, just get one free as you buy the ingredients for your Galette!

Galette des Rois

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• Promotional Coins – Celebrate, Commemorate, Collect !
• Anniversary Promotional Products – Yellow Tail wine promos
• Promotional Wine charms by Yellow T
• Veuve Clicquot special bottle packaging for promotion
• Yellow Tail
• Hidden Promotional Products in Traditional Cake
• Promotional Gifts for Girls – Nail Varnish Kit by Remington in France
• Christmas & New Year Promo: Jacob’s Creek Champagne Glass

Promotional gift - soccer figurine set

Here is one of the interesting promo gift collections we spotted at the Canton trade fair : a collection of 24 football player figurines from FCB Barcelona.

We could easily imagine all sorts of consumer goods brands using this kind of thing for a promotional gift on purchase campaign. Indeed, being a collection of 24 unique figurines would incite customers to repurchase the brand’s products so as to own the complete collection.

What’s more this promo item has many other advantages:

• figurines were of high quality: this makes them a valued gift by customers
• they could be co-branded with company or sponsor logo
• high  brand visibility when on display
• low production costs if made in polyresin

Of course this promo idea could be adapted to other sports (rugby, basket ball, volley ball etc.) or activities (historical figures for museum promos, film characters, cartoon characters etc.).

Promotional gifts - soccer figurine set

Check out the following related posts and website:

• Celebrate Sport Victories with Promo Figurines
• S’mores Tailgating Promo: A chance to win promotional gear!
• Promotional Gifts – NFL football promos by Castrol
• New promotional products Crumple Caps
• www.promofigurines.com

A Promotional Watch

Recently, I had the opportunity to head down to our watch factory in Southern China to conduct a factory audit with some clients. From inspecting each stage of manufacture you can gain valuable insight into the possibilities of product development and all the assembly process and the industry.

Let us take you through a step by step  process and things to look out for:

1. Inner Components of Analog Quartz Watch
2. Manufacturing the Case
3. Assembly & Packaging
4. Quality Control

Inner Components of Analog Quartz Watch

The inner components are the “brain” of the watch, controlling all of its function. The accuracy of analog watches is determined by how each precise each individual component is when manufactured and fitted together. These include:

Movement
The movement is the most vital aspect – the internal mechanism of the watch, made of many moving parts which run the clock.

The Different Parts of a Movement

In this Promotional watch factory 3 types of movement are used depending on the range of the watch:

• Swiss movement – most expensive of the lot, where the cheapest can usually last a minimum of 8 years
• Japanese movement – standardized movement which is used for most watches, considered good with a lifespan of about 3 years or more. Usually this movement is shipped from either Singapore or Japan itself.
• Chinese movement – the cheapest amongst all 3, used only for low budget watches – estimated to be around 1 year of lifespan.

Batteries
The lifespan of watch batteries (typically alkaline) differs based on your specified requests and budget. Our factory is using batteries mainly from HK(18 months), Indonesia (1 year) and Japan (2-3 years) for its mass productions.

Our factory generally boycotts Chinese batteries due to their low quality nature. However, some factories are still using them, to cut costs so do take note.
Often, these batteries are made to be easily replaceable due to its relatively short lifespan.

Dial
The dial is what makes your watch highly marketable with your brand logo/artwork printed fashionably along with the hours of the day.

Rubber Gasket
A rubber gasket is a part which keeps the watch water resistant. The factory will install one each on the front and back of the watch. When unscrewing the back cover to replace your battery, beware that this part is very vulnerable to falling off. If not put back in place properly, your watch may lose its resistance.

A whole pack of Rubber Gaskets

Manufacturing the case

It is essential to ensure quality in the manufacture in the case as it encloses and protects the movement and dial of a watch. To begin, untreated metal alloys retrieved from another factory are used to form the shape of the casing thereafter receiving treatment to look as good as new .

Moulds for Different Kinds of Casing

1. Attaching the different metal components together so that they are treated as a whole.

2. Scraping – The case will go through a huge machinery where it files and scraps off any unwanted material or flaw off the surface to create a smoother touch. Lubricants are used to accelerate this process.

A Factory Worker tending the Scraping Machine

3. Polishing & Shine – The case will then receive its shine after polishing treatment. This gives it a renewed look and is very important as some may not be cleaned properly and stains can still be seen. So it is essential that all parts that go through this process are cleaned thoroughly.

4. Drilling in holes for the assemble team to rivet smaller parts to the watch like the watch crown.

5. Now that the cases are all done and ready to go, the workers will then send them for colouring – through either plating or paint.

6. Glass placement to complete the whole shell.

7. For special requests on water resistant watches, a leakage test is conducted through this machinery right here – the test pressure will then be indicated as an equivalent water depth in metres usually.

Leakage Test Machinery

Assembly and Packaging

After all these have been completed, the case will be sent to the assembly team. The assembly team is responsible for putting together the inner components of the watch mentioned earlier, along with its strap and back cover.

Working with full concentration...

Usually, the assembly team has to be very experienced as fitting these tiny, fragile parts together can be very tricky. Not done the right way, it will render the whole watch useless. Therefore, members in the assembly team are chosen carefully, possessing nimble fingers as assembling a watch requires much dexterity…

Anatomy of the strap
The strap is easily customizable to any designs you want. Material of the strap includes:

• Leather
• Metal Bracelet
• Synthetic Rubber
• Plastic
• Cloth/Fabric
• Nylon

Besides the dial, the strap is often where you can work on your promotional efforts and designs, with the buckle on the strap usually showcasing your brand logo.

Watches for Kids on their way to be worked on. Notice the artwork on the strap

Once the back casing is secured to the timepiece, the whole process is completed by placing another layer of protection on both the front and the back.

The completion of the watch brings us to reviewing packaging options. We will be writing another specific post on this, so stay tuned!

Quality Control

Usually most factories conduct Quality Control inspections for at least 3 times – the minute parts of a watch are delicate so most watch factories will designate a whole department for QC to ensure quality.   ODM take random samples during the production for testing both for functioning and for lab tests such as Rohs & CE.

QCs are done when:

• The case is completed and a first round of QC is done to ensure they live up to expectations.
• The watch is assembled – the watch is tested to see if it is able to tell the time accurately.
• After packaging – random checks are made to make sure one final time that everything is good and ready to deliver.
  

  Girls checking meticulously for defects

• Polyester (PES) – Mainly used in textiles
• Polyethylene (PE) – Supermarket bags and plastic bottles
• Polypropylene (PP) - Bottle caps, drinking straws, containers, plush toy fillings
• Polystyrene – Food containers, plastic tableware, disposable cups, plates, cutlery
• Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) – ODM’s Octopus Suction Coolie

When it comes to hard plastic, acrylic and polycarbonate (PC) are the two main plastics used.

Examples of Acrylic

Acrylic – Popular Use:

• Motorcycle helmet visors
• Helicopter windows, submarine windows
• Spectator protection in an ice hockey arena

• Less impact resistance
• Less likely to scratch.
• Does not turn yellow after time
• Better clarity. Acrylic can be restored to optical clarity by polishing.

• Compact discs, DVDs
• Lighting lenses, sunglass lenses, safety glasses,
• automotive headlamp lenses
• Drinking bottles

Key characteristics of Polycarbonate

• Resistance towards impact / chipping
• More likely to scratch
• More costly
• Used mainly for industry applications
• Yellows over time
• Easier to work with in terms of cutting as they are less likely to break
• Poorer clarity, diffuses light, can lighten (could be positive)

Not sure which plastic to use for your next production? Contact us and will have experience advises coming along!

The advantages silicone rubber allows for space savings on the container

Containers utilize the natural properties of silicone to create a microwave and dishwasher safe containers which are also airtight. This ensures food stored is fresh and provides convenience to users due to multiple roles. In addition, the silicone container can collapse unto itself to create a smaller container for greater space savings. This allows for easy storage when not in use by customers.

The silicone containers also come in compartmentalized lunch boxes. These containers are completed with full sized forks and collapsible chopsticks allowing for a meal to be enjoyed on the go. When the meal is finished simply collapse the box for ease of carrying.

promotional silicone lunch boxes allow for fast and easy meals anywhere

The useful properties of silicone and the ability to customize according to fine unique colors allows for these containers to make exceptional promotional products.

In addition, these silicone products can be customized with logos via etching, allowing for advertising and marketing benefits.  Try these for a gift with purchase campaign or even as corporate gifts for promotional events.

For more foldable products check out Chinelas folding shoes.