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15c printed non-woven tote bags - WOW

One of the things we pride ourselves on at Global is our product quality – not just talking the talk, but walking the walk as well, which we back up with our 100% Quality & Service Guarantee.
Given that just about every promotional products distributor as well as most of our suppliers tend to claim this sort of thing, it can on the surface seem easy skip over quality when selecting where to purchase promotional products. It’s also easy presume everyone is basically the same in this area and is offering the same products at the same quality – until you see examples like the above to remind us to make sure you are comparing apples with apples, and that neither of the apples is rotton!

Recently we were at an industry trade show and were presented with some samples of non woven tote bags - at new amazingly low prices, with a minimum order of only 1000 units.

Looked a good basic bag on the surface – no depth to it (just two sheets of non woven fabric joined together), but the print was fairly good, and hey, for 15c each even as our wholesale price, how could you go wrong? Well … quite easily as it turns out!

I then noticed that the bag was starting to come apart at the top, and checked out the seams. Instead of being sewn together, they were heat welded down the side, something I had never seen before in a tote bag. Now with many products, plastic welding is fantastic, however in this case it simply served to put a series of micro holes down the seam, which gave no strength to the seam at all.

Hmmm this welded seam doesnt seem very sturdy!

I then gave a slight tug on the handles, to test the seam quality – something we do when testing all non woven bags. As suspected they ripped with no effort at all. I tried another one and applied about half the force my 6 month old neice would use when grabbing at something. It ripped again. I looked sideways at a third one, and it fell apart in front of me (well…. maybe thats not true but you get the point).

Ohhh so that's why it's so cheap!

The moral of the story: Be wary when looking for cheap promotional products, and always work with a quality promotional products distributor such as us at Global, because there are lots of nasty suprises out there for those who shop purely on price!

The new Saturn drink bottle is a premium quality promotional drink bottle at a budget price.

Over the last few years there has been a rise and rise of bottled water usage, to the extent that over half a billion dollars was spent on the product in Australia last year. Obviously this increase in drinking of water rather than softdrinks ties in with people’s desire for healthy living – a major focus as people become more and more aware of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.

We find this bottled water phenomonon a little strange in one respect (despite the fact we sell a very high quality custom bottled water),  given the international focus on environmental awareness and eco friendly products. Obviously this increase in purchasing bottled water brings with it millions of discarded plastic bottles which can be recycled but are just as often simply discarded. While recycling is great, reducing the use of disposbale items and replacing them with reusable ones has a lot more benefit.

Which brings us to custom printed drink bottles – a product that is looking to be the absolute hit promotional item this summer. They an ideal promotional product in the sense that they will be kept and used a huge number of times, as well as reducing waste compared with buying bottled water. And they help your hip pocket as well!
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