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Logo Branded Summer Promotional Products
From sunglasses, flip flops and bottle openers to parasols and marquees, we have a vast collection of summer business gifts that can be branded with your company logo, marketing message and contact details. From best-selling summer promo, to new and novel ideas to catch attention, we are certain their is an option to suit your budget, time restraints and marketing campaign.
Below you will find a selection of popular summer promotional products, to surprise and treat your customers or team with.
Key Information
Summer Promotional Product Ideas
1. Personalised Water Bottles
It is important to keep hydrated during warmer weather, especially when exercising.
Whether you are promoting a wellbeing campaign, or wanting to demonstrate your eco ethics with a reusable item; personalised bottles are a popular way to keep your brand in the hands of your customer.
A durable, useful water bottle, branded with your marketing message and call to action is bound to impress. You could even personalise your bottle with individual names to create an extra special touch.
Why not link the idea of being on holiday at the seaside, with these bottles made from Prevented Ocean Plastic! One way to help pollution at our beaches and oceans.
2. Custom Beach Towels
When you think of the summer time, does a beach pop into your mind?! An essential item you need for a comfortable beach trip is a beach towel.
Custom towels with your brand’s logo or message, is fun and dynamic way to promote your brand during the summer. Your design can be printed right up to the edge, in vibrant colours.
3. Branded Sunglasses
The classic summer promotional item – branded sunglasses! Whether the sun shines or not, promotional sunglasses are a conversational and practical giveaway which can inject personality into your marketing.
Depending on your budget, there is a huge range of sunglasses made from different materials, finishes and colours you can choose from.
4. Eco-Friendly Tote Bags
Practical and versatile, a reusable tote bag made from sustainable materials, is a popular event giveaway to promote your company.
They can be used for a number of occasions, from trips to the beach and shopping trips, to carrying promotional materials at trade shows.
Not only are they useful, but showcase your commitment to the environment.
5. Custom Flip Flops / Sliders
Let’s not forget the essential summer clothing item – flip flops! Perfect for days at the beach, camping trips, pool parties or just relaxing around the house. Flip flops can be printed with your logo and brand message, providing excellent brand exposure with every step your customer takes!
Contact Us for prices and visuals on Branded Slider Flip Flops here.
6. Insulated Travel Mugs
The perfect companion for any trip – branded travel mugs, cups and flasks are a must for any camping holiday or outdoor adventure! They would even keep you warm on a cooler summer evening in the park or garden! Pair with a branded picnic blanket to make for a comfortable and memorable occasion.
7. Branded Caps and Hats
A summer hat or cap with your logo on will impress your customers, especially if designed with a retail look. Or you could go down the humorous or quirky route, creating a viral sensation!
Either way, branded headwear offers the practical advantage of keeping your customers cool and protected from the sun. Plus, they are the perfect walking advertising billboard for your company!
8. Branded Sunscreen
A vital item for the summer sun is sunscreen. Providing branded sun care items such as sun cream lotion, sun block and lip balm will protect your customer from harmful UV rays whilst promoting your company.
Read our Sunscreen and Suncare Items Blog for more ideas.
9. Beach Balls
With a large area for your brand logo, beach balls will bring the fun to your summer marketing campaign and ensure maximum visibility of your brand. A great giveaway for outdoor events and handy for any trips to the beach, pool or picnics in the park.
10. Promotional Cooler Lunch Bags
Whether enjoying a picnic in the garden, park or when away, a branded cooler lunch bag is an essential and incredibly useful item. As well as providing your customers with a way to keep their drinks and food cool, a promotional cooler bag has plenty of space for your logo and marketing message.
11. Promotional Frisbees
A fun marketing idea to make the most of the summer weather is with a branded game or sports gift, such as a promotional frisbee.
Frisbees are a great way to get your brands culture across to your target market, and make sure your brand is remembered with a smile. They offer excellent visibility in outdoor spaces such as beaches and parks.
12. Parasols, Marquees and Deck Chairs
Help your customers feel at ease at your next outdoor event with quality outdoor furniture like parasols, marquees and deck chairs branded up with your company logo. Particularly if you are in the hospitality sector, promotional outdoor furniture will convey a professional, uniform brand image.
Similarly, if you work in an office or workplace, these kind of outdoor promotional items will help to create a ‘holiday feel’ to your outdoor area! If you want something a little different, how about bean bag chairs and stools, or even hammocks all branded up with your design?
13. Drink Accessories
Hot weather calls out for cool refreshing drinks, and so branded drink accessories are a handy gift for your customers. Make sure your they are never without a bottle opener (or keyring bottle opener!), create a wow moment with a branded cocktail set, or send out an eco message with our reusable branded straws, cocktail stirrers and cup covers.
14. BBQ Products
So many of us enjoy BBQ’s as a way to relax and be with friends and family during the summer months. Make your brand centre-stage at any BBQ gathering, with a personalise apron, a set of branded BBQ utensils, or even outdoor glasses and crockery!
All of our BBQ branded gifts have a retail look and style, and will ensure your brand gets a sizzling reaction from any customer or colleague.
If you are planning a BBQ event for clients or the community, you may also want to invest in a branded marquee or parasol to create areas of shade and shelter.
15. Bluetooth Speakers
Any BBQ or picnic needs atmosphere, and music is the answer! There are some amazingly good quality branded speakers available these days, which will make any outdoor occasion sound better (plus they can double up and be used in the office too).
Branded gadgets like speakers and headphones have a high perceived value, and will last much longer than just the summer season.
16. Branded Torches
An essential for any camping trip or evening stroll on the beach or in the countryside – a torch!
From exceptional value LED torch keyrings to more substantial branded head torches and gift packaged engraved torches, there are many styles of torches to make sure your brand stays in the spotlight!
Why are summer promotional products effective for marketing?
1. Align with the positive vibes of summer
The warm weather and longer days tend to raise the spirits and reduce stress. When the sun shines, we associate it with happy times – going to garden parties, to the park or natural beauty spots, watching sports or exercising, holidays and festivals to name but a few.
So, by promoting your services or products during the summer with seasonal branded merchandise, you can align your brand with when people are happier! By selecting a timely item that will be used during a summer activity, you can ensure that your brand is at the front of your target markets mind throughout the summer season.
2. Create genuine touchpoints
A promotional summer product that will make the receivers free time feel that little bit more special, will help to create genuine, valued, business relationships.
The key is to get your brands image across with the promotional item, whether it highlight your fun and humorous side, or your dedication to quality with a high perceived value gift.
3. Practical and useful
Items that are frequently used in the summer season like sunglasses, water bottles and hats are ideal as a promotional gift. Relevant and useful, they provide a great opportunity to maximise your brand exposure.
If you are concerned that your summer promotional gift will be discarded once the sun stops shining, rest assured there is a huge variety of versatile merchandise that will be kept and re-used well after the summer season.
What are the best summer promotional products for outdoor events?
Alongside outdoor furniture like marquees; practical items such as sun cream, bottle opener keyrings and cooler bags are useful and offer high visibility for your brand. Giveaway items like beach balls, frisbees and cocktail stirrers would be ideal to inject a bit of fun to your outdoor event.
How can I choose the right summer promotional products for my business?
Make sure you start with your target market. What are their interests and what do they do in the summer months? By thinking about these factors, you can choose an item that is both practical and appreciated. For example, personalised water bottles for people who like to exercise, or Bluetooth speakers for those who like to party!
Consider items that reflects your brand ethos and image. Do you want a sustainable item that showcases your green credentials? Does it need to be in your brand colours or a sleek and stylish item?
How can I maximise the impact of my summer promotional products?
Don’t just use your promotional summer gifts for one occasion, consider a multi-targeted approach. Use them in your summer marketing campaigns, distribute at events, and offer them as order incentives or rewards.
You could consider bundling products to create an even bigger impact and wow factor. For example, a beach bag pack including: cooler lunch bag, beach ball, sunscreen, sunglasses and beach towel!
Also make sure you choose an item that will best showcase your brand and logo. The size of your branding area should be large enough to display your logo and call to action.
If you are wanting an all in one summer gift pack with multiple items, readymade for sending out directly to your clients or team, please do get in touch and we can share with you some ideas.
Debbie Hardy
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
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3 months ago
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4 months ago
We used Steel City Marketing for company merchandising and had a brilliant experience. Quick turnaround, open communication, and high-quality on delivery! Shout out to Debbie and Rowan! Would absolutely recommend.
Zander Monty
7 months ago
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Mohammed Abdulla
8 months ago
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Destination Ripon
9 months ago
A huge thank you to Rowan and Debbie at Steel City for all their help with our new merchandise for our rebranding launch! They were a dream to work with, super friendly and responsive! Communication was absolutely on point throughout the whole process, which made everything run so smoothly. The merch looks fantastic and really brought our new brand to life. I can’t recommend them enough!
Louise Fairhurst
10 months ago
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Graham Dunn
10 months ago
Had a fantastic experience ordering products through Steel City. From very first contact through to delivery everyone was very helpful and professional, keeping me informed at every step of the way, and ensured a speedy outcome - an extremely efficient process from start to finish.
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11 months ago
These guys are super. They are all very personable and incredibly easy to work with, and will stop at nothing to make sure the order is exactly right. We have made three orders from them now and have been really pleased each time.
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11 months ago
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11 months ago
Great service from the whole team from ordering, through fulfilment to billing. Staff were all friendly and accommodating to our needs and made great suggestions to our order - thank you. Will use again!
Claire C
12 months ago
I ordered name badges from Steel City, the communication from Rowan and the final product were first class, I will definitely use them again.
David Roberts
1 year ago
We have used Steel City a number of times and this order was no different - a fast, friendly and efficient service from start to finish! Highly recommended for any and all branded goods!
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1 year ago
Excellent customer service throughout the whole process - from initial contact through to delivery. I was kept informed at each stage. Friendly and helpful staff. Thanks.
Rebecca Norton
1 year ago
Ordered loads of branded merch from them (we're talking in the 1000s) multiple times over the past few years and they never fail to be absolutely spectacular with their customer service, general friendliness and their helpfulness! The merch is top notch quality, and will happily continue using Steel City for many orders to come! Hugely recommend!
Jordon Horn
1 year ago
We have ordered several branded products from Steel City, and we have been extremely impressed by both the quality of the products themselves and also the service we've received from their fantastic team. Georgia in particular has been brilliant - her friendly demeanour and genuine willingness to help us make the right decisions for our business made the entire process seamless. No question was too trivial, and no request was ever too much trouble for her. Steel City has earned our trust as a reliable and customer-focused company, and we wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them to anyone looking for high-quality branded products with exceptional service to match. Thanks guys!
Carleys
1 year ago
I have known Steel City Marketing for many, many years and always find them extremely professional. The whole process: from responding to my initial inquiry; through to tracking delivery is managed in a super professional way. On top of that - they are lovely, friendly people ... highly recommended :-)
Patrick Ross
1 year ago
Seamless from start to finish. Very helpful company, brilliant product and delivery on time. Couldn't recommend more.
Catriona McDonald
1 year ago
We are delighted with our branded hoodies. The team are a pleasure to work with and provided an excellent service on a tight deadline. Thoroughly recommend Steel City Marketing.
Richard Kerr
1 year ago
Good quality products, competitively priced with excellent communications throughout the whole process.
Dave Lawrence
1 year ago
Fabulous fast and friendly service, cracking banner :)
Mai Mai Steele
1 year ago
Very helpful and friendly customer service, and great job on pin badges produced for our Freshers campaign
Showroom Cinema
1 year ago
Absolutely A-1 in every area. From design, to communication, to delivery, processing, speed, quality of products - exceptional!
Katie Bell
1 year ago
My first time using Steel City BM, what a great service, we delayed things and messed them about a bit but they still came up trumps, got the merchandise we wanted, printed with our Logos and delivered within the very short timeframe we gave them, excellent service. I would highly recommend using them
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1 year ago
I am a repeat customer for a good reason and have been for years. Never let me down, courteous, friendly service, quality goods, lovely efficient firm to deal with (exemplary COMMUNICATION as well, which seems to be a commodity fast diminishing between client and supplier these days) and going forward I’ll be back again - at least twice a year with ever increasing volumes. Can’t recommend them highly enough. Great firm.
Milly Johnson
2 years ago
Recently sourced products from Steel City and couldn't be happier! From the initial enquiry to the delivery of the products, every step of the process was handled with the utmost professionalism and care. The quality is exceptional, the customer service is outstanding, and the delivery was prompt. I highly recommend them to any business looking for reliable, high-quality suppliers. Thank you for exceeding our expectations!
Georgina T
2 years ago
Ordered a bulk order of 500 branded notepads on the Monday and they had been delivered on the Friday! Impressively fast. Great quality products, and the customer service is the best i've experienced- both Rowan the Sales Administrator and Debbie the Account Manager were excellent, very rapid email response with all the info needed. We will continue to use Steel City for our company's branded merch.
Amber Robinson
2 years ago
Can't rate the team at Steel City Marketing highly enough. I've ordered a few different promotional items just recently and every single time, from start to finish, the service from Georgia & Rowan in particular, has been first class. Each item we have had (leather key fobs, feather flags and printed bags) are of an excellent quality and have been produced to a very high standard. I've always been pleasantly surprised at the quality, speed and with the exceptional service this company has always fulfilled our orders.
Grooms Garage
3 years ago
Brilliant service from start to finish. Rowan went that 'extra mile' to keep me informed on progress.
John Nix
2 years ago
Highly recommend Steel City for all promotional items and gifts. The team were very helpful and supportive in helping us source what we were looking for and sent multiple free samples for us to test the quality prior to us making a final decision. Highly recommend Steel City and look forward to working with them again in the future. - Review on behalf of AUMA Actuators Ltd.
Callum Hopkins
2 years ago
“As always, the service was fast and reliable with my favourite bit being the communication. As a customer you know exactly what to expect at every point of the process because your expectations are managed beautifully and all information is communicated well.”
Kimberly Sewell
2 years ago
Excellent service and produced items once again from Debbie and the whole team at Steel City. I won't go anywhere else for my promo items.
Andrew Williams
2 years ago
Super speedy process and the team were on hand throughout! Highly recommend - thank you again!
Hannah Williams
2 years ago
Fantastic experience using Steel City from the minute I emailed James about my requirements to the finished product being delivered. Can't speak highly enough of Rowan for her regular communication and letting me know how things are progressing.
Karen Leeder
2 years ago
Great experience of using Steel City, nothing was too much trouble, everyone within the team that we dealt with were really helpful, will definitely be using them again!
Katie Peel
2 years ago
Good Products, good service - kept informed all the way - Steel City met my expectations which are pretty high - nicely done SC...
Martin Wilson
2 years ago
The team at Steel City have been extremely helpful whilst ordering new merchandise for a small charity. They came up with suggestions for the products, enhanced the logo and offered an excellent price. Overall very friendly and efficient and we are delighted with the final products.
Anne S
2 years ago
Excellent customer service and communication, good turnaround times and a quality product. Many Thanks!
Joy Arnott
2 years ago
Excellent customer service
Helen Wathall
2 years ago
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Lisa Woodhouse
2 years ago
The process of placing the order as always was handled well and a pleasure to work with you and your team at Steel City.
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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2 years ago
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3 years ago
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3 years ago
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