A Santee merchandise company offers a useful lesson in branding: the logo is only part of the order. Fit, quantity, artwork and the date on the calendar do much of the work.
A branded gift is easy to order. IMAGEN’s more interesting work is making the design, the delivery, and the reason for sending it fit together.
Business cards, branded bottles and the occasional awkward assignment: the San Carlos printer sells the help that turns an idea into something you can hand over.
Bordova sells uniforms, gifts and promotional goods. The more interesting product is coordination: one relationship for the many small decisions that make a company look like itself.
Kellwood Company is an American apparel design, sourcing, manufacturing and marketing firm founded in 1961. It builds and operates women's, juniors' and girls' fashion brands - including Democracy, Jolt, Briggs New York, Rewind, My Michelle and Wit & Wisdom - and provides private-label and full-package product development, sourcing, quality assurance and distribution services for major retailers such as Nordstrom, Macy's, Kohl's, Dillard's, Target and Costco.
The Icebox Cool Stuff is an Atlanta-based, full-service branded merchandise and custom apparel agency founded in 2001 on the belief that promotional products can actually be cool. It handles the whole chain - creative design, product sourcing, in-house decorating, warehouse fulfillment, company-store management and global distribution - for corporate clients ranging from Delta Air Lines to Google. Roughly 150 employees work across three locations and 150,000+ square feet of warehouse space, serving brands that want merchandise people actually keep and wear.