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Corporate merchandise

Custom corporate merchandise in South Africa

A pen is not a strategy. A bag someone carries every day is.

Three caps on a cream backdrop: a violet baseball cap, an orange bucket hat and a magenta knitted beanie.

You get merchandise built for the moment it has to work: a product launch, an activation, a campaign that needs something in people's hands. We start with who receives it and where it will live, then design the piece around that. Your brand goes on properly, in the right colours and the right place, and the thing itself is good enough to keep.

We handle the research, the design, the sourcing and the branding under one roof, so you brief one team and get one answer. If your launch needs apparel too, our promotional apparel runs alongside it. If the merch is going into delegate bags, see conference kits.

Brief us

What we make for you.

Specific, not a catalogue. If it isn't here, ask anyway.

Bags

Totes, backpacks and pouches that carry your brand out of the event and into the week. Designed around what the person will actually put in them.

Drinkware

Bottles, flasks and cups for desks, gyms and festival fields. Branding placed where hands and eyes land.

Accessories

The small pieces that finish a kit or a drop: caps, beanies, lanyards, patches, pins and the odd surprise. Small things, made properly.

Launch drops

A tight set of pieces built around one campaign idea, so the merch tells the same story as the creative.

How it works

How a merch job runs.

Five steps. The same five every time. No mystery.

  1. You brief us

    Tell us what the launch or activation is, who gets the merch and when it has to land. A paragraph is enough.

  2. We listen

    We ask about the audience, the brand rules, the budget range and the moment the pieces will be used in.

  3. We design and sample

    Concepts and mock-ups first, colour-matched to your guidelines. Then physical samples you can hold before anything goes into production.

  4. We make

    Production with quality checks on branding, colour and finish before a single piece is packed.

  5. We deliver

    Packed and labelled for the event, the office or the courier. Then we check in to hear how it landed.

What to put in your brief.

The more of this you have, the faster we move. Missing a few? Send it anyway.

  • Quantity range

    A rough number or a range is fine. It shapes which products and finishes make sense.

  • Deadline

    The date the merch must be in hand, and the event date if they differ.

  • Artwork files

    Logo in vector format if you have it, plus brand colours or guidelines.

  • Who it's for

    Customers, staff, delegates, press. It changes what we recommend.

  • Delivery location

    Where the finished pieces need to go, and whether that is one address or several.

What moves the price.

We don't publish prices because no two briefs are the same. These are the levers.

Quantity
Volume changes the unit cost and which products are worth considering.
Decoration method
How your brand goes on the piece, and how many colours and positions it needs.
Product and material
The base item and what it's made of. A good bag and a great bag are different briefs.
Packaging
Loose in a carton, individually wrapped, or presented as a kit.
Timing
A comfortable deadline gives us more options than a tight one.

Questions we get asked.

Not answered here? Tell us what you're planning and we'll talk it through.

Brief us
Can you suggest products if we only know the campaign idea?

Yes, and we prefer it that way. Tell us the idea, the audience and the moment, and we'll come back with pieces that fit. That's the research part of what we do.

Will the colours match our brand guidelines?

Matching your brand colours is part of the design stage. We confirm colour and placement on mock-ups, then on a physical sample, before production starts.

Can merch and apparel be done as one project?

Often that's the best way, because the pieces end up speaking the same language. Brief both together and we'll plan them as one job.

Got a launch, an activation or a drawer full of boring merch?

We're just a brief away.