Unique Merchandising: Staying Ahead of the Competition

As every business is specific and needs a unique product for their promotional needs. It is important to be to stay ahead of competitors while keeping a strong brand awareness.

What can be interesting about an ordinary glass you might ask? Unique marketing products are very useful for gaining new customers in a flooded industry. Most importantly, they can be used on almost any cup or glass and make their ability to expose your brand high.

Being highly customizable and available in a variety of shapes and colours, the possibilities to promote your brand are endless.  Your ideas set the limits. Together we can find a way to grow your sales and brand.

Why do we advise decorating promotional glasses as a new marketing idea?

Sponsorship marketing. Great promotional idea for you if you are going to sponsor and contribute to sport activities and liquor campaigns.
Unique Branding.They are  fully customisable products, due to this you can achieve a better brand exposure and convey any information to your clients.
Repeated sales. Customers will want purchase multiple items to build their collection. As a result, they make a great gift. Once someone has received one as a gift they will want to buy more to expand their collection too.

POS Display Merchandise Ideas: LED Bottle Glorifier

When we trying to advertise a luxurious drink brand we could use different POS to be able to promote our brand in different locations. For instance, if we think of a luxurious alcoholic drink; we could use a special point of sale to advertise it in clubs. A great example of point of sale we could use is a LED bottle glorifier. This promotional product will enable your brand to be seen in clubs where your drink will be consumed at most times. This can be placed on tables or even in bar shelves. This kind of product has an amazing visibility which will increase your brand awareness.

We can see an example of this point of sale below:

So, what is a point of sale and how can it help you out in marketing your brand?

POS stands for point of sales. The idea behind the usage of point of sales products is to attract customers to the point of purchase as well as increasing the visibility of our brand.

A point of sale in marketing will always generate new product awareness, trial and purchase if both of these two steps are done properly. We always need to find different ways of presenting our products to our target market. Normally, people admire the way products are packed and presented to them to generate them an interest of purchasing. If we compare the big clothing brands the way that they use high-end packaging we could really tell the difference and quality compared to small shops.

In this situation, this LED bottle glorifier is tremendously unique to present our drinks in clubs, firstly because it is high-end and therefore can be pricy and secondly it looks amazingly great to display our products. This kind of POS really will catch customers attention as it also includes LED light that will stand out even when the club lights turn off.

Liquor Merchandise Ideas: Premium Products for you Brand

Seeking effective promotional ideas for your corporate gifts. Wine related gifts can truly set your firm apart from competition by offering classy yet inexpensive items of high perceived-value.

Wine Decanter

Decanters are key items for wine lovers. For old wines which contain sediments (due to the aging process), properly decanting will insure that these have a chance to settle at the bottom of bottle or decanter. Younger wine will benefit from decanting by increasing its contact with oxygen, thus releasing aromas.

Lastly, presentation of wine in a beautiful crystal decanter adds to the ambiance of a beautifully dressed table.

Wine Aerator

Similar to the decanter, wine aerators enhance the taste of the wines you drink by exposing them to air. However, aerators do this task better and faster than decanters.

No need to remember to open the bottle long before dinner in order to enjoy its full aroma, aerators deliver oxygen to the wine rapidly and efficiently. A great item for all impatient wine connoisseurs out there.

Wine Vacuum Pump

On the opposite side, if you would like to keep your wine for later (if you do not wish to finish a full bottle in 1 sitting) oxygen should be kept out of your bottle in order to prevent the aromas from escaping. The use of a vacuum pump becomes mandatory. By inserting a rubber bung into the neck of the bottle and extracting the air, you insure your wine will lose nothing of its bouquet and is ready to be served again days later.

Bottle Stands

Meant to showcase your best wine while on the table or bar.  this can just be for decoration purposes or have pouring function.  Bottle stands are the perfect tools to fit for displaying your unopened wine.

Choose from wood, metal, glass and a host of other materials and designs.

Wine Stopper

Wine stoppers are devices used to seal a bottle of wine after it has been opened in order to keep the wine from spilling and to prevent oxygen from spoiling the beverage. Traditionally made of cork, wine stoppers evolved and can now take many shapes and forms. Easily personalized, they bring a nice touch to any celebration or events and can represent any theme of your choice.

Wine Case

This item allows you to easily carry around your favourite bottle and can also provide a great gift pack when offering a bottle of wine to somebody as a gift.

Meant to conserve and protect your best bottle while it is carried around, wine cases are great addition to an already classy product. They can come in many shape, colors and material.

Wine Glasses

Wine glasses are also one of the most important element in any wine tasting. Shape is important as it concentrates the flavor and the aroma (bouquet) to emphasize the varietal’s characteristics. For example red wine glasses have shorter stems and wider bowls as compared to white wine glasses.

Wine glasses are also of key importance to decorate dinner table and can easily be customized to your specific need and want.  Give away a specific glass to your customers to tie in with the location of the event or which fits in well with the region the clients come from.

Champagne Glasses

Champagne Flûtes are stem glasses with tall, narrow bowls. The concept is to hold the glass without affecting the temperature of the drink and to retain champagne’s signature carbonation/fizziness. Usually coming in sets of 2, 6 or 12, champagne flutes are the perfect idea for corporate gifts.

They can be easily customized according to your designs.  This gift is synonymous with luxury.

Wine Charms

Wine charms are decorative loops to be wrapped around the stem of a wine glass in order to help you remember whose glass is whose. Useful during parties, marriages or get-togethers, wine charms provide personalized items to all attending guests in order not to mix up glasses. Allow guests to take them away & remember those precious moments.

Wine Album

Marrying modern design and ease of use, allows you to collect your preferred labels in a single and elegant album. No longer you will forget that exceptional bottle that you enjoyed or the special occasion on which you savored that excellent wine.

Wine Coasters

Another handy and fashionable item, wine coasters keep wine drips from reaching tables and counters. At the same time, they can easily be customized in terms of material and appearance. From polished stainless coasters to glass, ceramic,etc. Wine coaster are yet another item used to dress your table for big events.

Corporate Merchandise: Optimising your Marketing Budget

If you are looking into maximising your marketing budget this year, then you should invest in corporate gifts! Most people like to get things organized to welcome the beginning of the year. This is why everybody always have a new year resolution. Help your clients and business partners to get organized. A thoughtful gift is always appreciated far more than its actual value. Here are some ideas on how to make organizers and compendiums interesting and useful!
People nowadays own highly portable gadgets. These gadgets help them to be more productive. An iPad compendiums is great for any iPad owner who wants to get organized. The iPad can be inserted into a detachable pocket that serves as iPad case and stand. On the outer cover of this pocket there are some compartments where users can put their iPad cable, USB flash drive, credit cards and many more. being able to contain A4 size paper, this compendium is great for carrying important documents as well.

This gift is highly customisable. You have many options on colour and material. PU can be a very good material for this if leather is too luxurious for the target audience. Having a large surface area, you can choose to brand it prominently or subtly. You can even customize the finishing. Try using foil stamping to make your brand more visible.

Using Marketing Budget Optimally

Corporate gifts can strengthen your brand image and your ties with your partners. It also increases brand awareness. It is a form of subtle investment. Using your marketing budget for corporate gifts will enforce brand recall and hopefully generate more collaborations.

Visual Merchandising: Custom Designs for Functional GWPs

A bottle stopper is a nice product to use as GWP. Because of the size and weight of the product, it is compact and suitable for many types of industries. If you are dealing in food and beverage industry, perhaps as a winemaker or a restaurant, this product would be a really cool premium product. Bottle stoppers are very simple and convenient accessories for wine lovers, bartenders and wine collectors alike to saver the aromas of wine, and keep its taste ripe.

This is why we suggest this iceberg-shaped bottle stopper to add a twist and cheer to your collection of wine accessories.

Why is this wine stopper a great merchandise idea?

• Practical. This wine stopped can be use multiple ways making it a very convenient item to have. People love receiving items that they can use.

• Brand awareness. This item can be used and placed on any item and any place leaving plenty of chance to expose and interest other people.

Premium Merchandise: Smooth Wine Decanters

Any product item at Duty Free is a real looker. It is so easy to get lost in time when you are in this store anywhere in the world. Their displays are fabulous; there is a huge variety in terms of the products. The gifts with purchase merchandise are at the best spots too. It’s great when shoppers do not have to move items to find the ones they like.

3 Perks of this Item at a Duty Free Store

Elegant-looking. The shot glass is premium yet simple and has the Skyy Vodka identity embedded to it. This is what makes it look presentable and posh. The packaging of such gift is very important, as it will affect the image of brand and value of your merchandise.

All-in-one GWP. These types of shot glasses can be given in sets for every purchase. Customers can now enjoy the liquor with more people using similar glasses. They do not have to buy new. Thus, it creates additional and nice advertising for brand.

Well-placed Brand Logo. They are absolutely eye-catching and impossible to miss. However, they don’t need to do it to find the brand name as it is located at the front face of the shot glass. It can definitely help increase brand awareness whenever people use it.

Classy Merchandise: Stainless Steel Serving Trays

Serving trays add additional levels of sophistication to parties or dinner events. They also allow for more food and drinks to be served at once. This gives greater efficiency to servers compared to just using.

Trays can come in variety of designs – can custom manufacture from simple circular trays to the square rectangular trays with handles.

They can also be non slip with usage of materials such as felt, EVA foam base or rubberising sufaces, ensuring that items on the tray would not slip and fall off.

Serving trays can also be customised by shape or material to help suit the companies product positioning needs.  Some suggestions for manufacturing materials:

• Bamboo

• Leather

• Metal

• Plastic

• Wood (with felt)

• Inflatable material

Trays can be viewed as high perceived value depending on material and designs used, making it a versatile marketing tool.

Overall, as a premium item, the serving tray provides utility through better serving of food and drinks as well as long term direct advertising through printing of logo onto the base or sides of the tray. Its ability to be customized in terms of features and design makes it a great classy product for companies to consider.

Use them in gift with purchases campaigns for consumers or as bar advertising for maximum effect.

Functional Merchandise: Premium Corkscrews

To find a unique way to promote your brand within your wine promotions is not always easy, but this bottle corkscrew can help you to gain more attention to your campaign. To use a promotional product, which can be directly used with your product, can gain you a big increase on your sales and the awareness of your campaign.

This great corkscrew is very useful. You can fold it back up again to have not just a nicer design as any other corkscrew, but it also can stand alone, so you can put it better onto a shelf and do not need to hide this in any draw anymore. Its design of a bottle makes the costumer wants to show it to their visitors, which will be a reason why this will boost your wine promotions and why your costumers and potential costumers will talk about your marketing campaign and your product.

Why should you think about such a product within your Wine Campaigns?

Unique but effective. Its unique shape of  a bottle makes this corkscrew to a attention magnet. Everyone will be looking at it, as you do not expect a corkscrew to be designed like that.

2 Options in 1. It is true, you can not only open wine with this corkscrew, you also can open beer bottles without getting an other tool. Perfect for a sit together with a bunch of people, or for a big dinner.

Makes brand more important. This corkscrew is nothing you want to hide in a draw, which will just be taking out the 2 to 5 times a day, its been used. This corkscrew will be shown to any visitor or to any wine connoisseur your costumers know.

Additional costumers. Costumers, who did not choose your product before, might would choose your product, if they get such a unique corkscrew to it.

Functional Merchandise: Wine Bucket GWPs from De Bortoli

Ice Buckets are an excellent and very visible advertising tool.  Cold drinks are a big part of pleasure in life. For parties or meals having a nice ice bucket on the table to keep your drinks cold is always a nice thing to do!

There are many factories in China and India who can offer standard designs for beer buckets. However, the design of your bucket will be the one who will determine the success of your campaign. 

Custom Ice Buckets for Wine:  Since these drinks are usually sold for much more than beer, we can note that most of the time wine buckets are also of higher quality, more complex in design and more ornate.

Even the best wine or champagne do not have the same taste when it is not cold. To ensure that your beverages are always at good temperature, you definitely have to use an customized ice bucket. That will make you stand out from the crowd as well.

GWP Ideas: Merchandise Gifts from De Bortoli

De Bortoli Wines is offering two wine glasses in every pack when you purchase a bottle. This type of premium gift is commonly used in the alcohol industry and for a number of reasons. An on-pack glass gift is good for increasing brand awareness and also works well as an incentive purchase.

This on-pack gift is packaged to show the promo glass next to the bottle. This glass has also been engraved to show the brands name on the surface, which makes this type of design a great and easy technique for making your brand name look sophisticated and unique on the glass.

Why Invest on an On-Pack Glass Set?

Point of sale promotion. This glass could be used in bars or at home on display in your drinks cabinet to promote your whiskey brand. When buying a glass of this specific brand of whiskey, customers tend to like their drink served with a matching glass to accompany the drink. Therefore, this glass will be on show to more customers, the nicer looking the glass, the more likely the customer will buy this whiskey.

Increase the perceived value of the product. This means that customers are more likely to pick a specific product over competitors in the same industry.  By offering an on-pack gift that is used together with the actual product along with a premium packaging, the perceived value is increased even further.

Brand awareness. Because of its novelty factor, this promo glass will interest customers to buy, because it offers more than other wine brands at that time. With the higher level of interest about a promotional item, the more recognition your brand will receive if you stamp your logo on it.