Promotional umbrellas manufactured, assembled and printed in the UK

Promotional umbrellas are important because some parts over the UK are alleged to get up to 20 inches of rain per year, that’s the height of a baby mule! I wouldn’t want to be caught out in a smart business suite, rushing in between meetings or on the golf course looking equally as dapper and the heavens start to open without an umbrella.

We get so much rain in the UK that most of us have an umbrella of sorts. Most likely a full size golf umbrella or a smaller ladies telescopic size. We normally keep it in the boot or in a foot well of your car. The only time it is thrown away is when it stops working.

Umbrellas are strongest and will last the longest when manufactured from fibre glass. Then best canopy to have is vented as it allows air to escape rather than being trapped. Automatic opening is available on golf size but why complicate matters when a manual has less things to go wrong and will be lighter weight.

Rightly or wrongly, people do associate heavy with quality and printed umbrellas are a perfect case of the exception to the rule. Firstly when holding a heavy business bag would you really want to be holding a heavy umbrella as well, answer, no. Secondly fibre glass is the best quality as it has the ability to flex when blown hard. When a car drives over a lying policeman with suspension no problem, but if there was no suspension then the chassis would snap, we wouldn’t want that. Fibre glass is lightweight therefore the better quality the umbrella the lighter it is.

Full size umbrellas offer a fantastic marketing opportunity as there is a large A4 print area available on eight panels, therefore people can see your company logo in all directions (normally four panels are maximum number printed).

Even more importantly umbrellas are just above eye height so can be seen from afar very easily, much like a walking billboard. For this reason umbrellas are given as corporate gifts to get valuable advertising exposure on those busy streets during lunch breaks and arriving/ leaving work.

Most golf umbrellas have in excess of thirty two panel colour options available and some have over sixty panel colours. Panels are manufactured and stitched in the UK on frames purchased from overseas. This means that even five day express options are available.

For large quantities for the best prices a twelve week lead time will often be required. Corporate umbrellas are available in the generic “golf” size which is an umbrella with a thirty to thirty two inch canopy; telescopic umbrellas that even automatically open and close; specific gents and ladies corporate umbrellas; childrens umbrellas in amusing shapes and bright colours; walking umbrellas that have traditional crook handles; parasols with or without bases; finally recycled umbrellas with large and small sizes available.

In summation the return on investment from advertising on corporate umbrellas is far greater than spending money on costly billboard campaigns, bus stop adverts, train adverts and more of the traditional advertising channels.