CATALOGUE
2013
SHIPPING AND LOGISTICS
CALL US, WE SOURCE
HOW WE WORK From the factory we source and design your customized product. Then with our international shipping and logistics network, we deliver and clear your product, quality controlled, branded and packaged to meet your deadline.
END PRODUCT IN YOUR HANDS
meeting the deadline
BRANDING, PACKAGING AND DELI足VERY
QUALITY CONTROL AND CLEARANCE
Company Profile Promo Import was founded in 2008 and is one of South Africa’s top importers for the corporate gift and promotion industry. Our approach is to design or source the most original and best quality products, oversee the manufacturing process, import, ship and clear them in time for our client’s deadlines. Promo Import has, up until 2013, only worked with promotion companies. We have delivered hip flasks, key-rings, beach chairs, flash sticks, lanyards, MP3 players and many other items that were used for promotions of some of the biggest companies in South Africa. 60 000 headphones for Amstel, 20 000 bar blades for Savannah, hundreds of thousands of branded beach and rain umbrellas. We fulfill some of the biggest orders from the most popular and trusted promotions
companies. And now we are offering this same service direct to select clients. Our promise is to get you the best possible price for the best possible products. We do this by controlling the entire process from start to finish. We don’t use Hong Kong trading companies, sourcing agents or middle men. We work directly with trusted overseas manufacturers and the best quality control companies to ensure that the products shipped meat the highest standard to best represent your company’s brand. Promo import have just arrived back from the Canton Fair with about 60 kgs worth of new product samples and enough catalogs to keep us busy till Christmas. If you are looking for something different or even looking for an old favourite but at an
unbeatable new price, give us a call. Tell us about your promotion, your deadline, your budget, your logo and corporate colours.
We will get you something unique, beautifully packaged and ready to go!
Our Work Promo Import has, worked with a number of promotions and corporate gift companies in South Africa. We are on their regular calling list to provide quotes for almost every possible branded product and gift. Whether its a soft toy that plays music when you squeeze it or a leather folio for your iPad, we are known to be able to source any product and deliver it at a price that will make you or your clients very happy. There’s a world of ideas out there! We don’t just churn our the same products that everyone else has
been doing for years. We brainstorm and think about the target audience, their values and aspirations. Graduation gifts for the student with their whole life ahead of them, rewards for hard-working employees. We travel to the various trade-shows and fairs overseas and find the coolest and most exciting new products. We comb through the hundreds of flash sticks, thousands of watches and and tens of thousands of keyrings and other paraphernalia to find that one awesome product perfect for your brand.
01 ELECTRONIC ACCESSORIES South Africa is a music loving county. Kwaito, jazz, hip-hop and dance music. People love their music and everyone wants a pair of headphones and an MP3 player to rock out to their personal beats. Promo Import is widely known to the South African promotions industry as being the top importer for both over-ear and in-ear headphones and ear-buds. We have done 35 000 headphones and 33 000 ear-buds for Amstel alone as well as headphones for Smirnoff and PEP to name a few. We have done MP3 players for Hunters and Amstel and also supply some major retailers in this space. We work with best electronics manufacturers overseas to produce the best possible product with sound quality that matches the status of your brand. Every unit is tested and packaged, ready to be given to your valued customers. Give the gift of music this season with Promo Import.
02 SUMMER BEACH BRANDING Promo Import through it’s sister company, The Umbrella Man has been in the umbrella industry since 2009, supplying independent and large corporate retailers with quality rain umbrellas, beach umbrellas, outdoor parasols, beach and camping chairs. The Umbrella Man also services the promotions industry. We supply and deliver custom manufactured and branded umbrellas, parasols, tents, beach chairs and camping chairs to the promotions industries’ end customers. Only the best high quality durable materials are used in the production process. We have storage facilities in Cape Town and in Johannesburg, and have distribution capabilities across the country. We work with the vendors and the Cape Town city council to secure the best areas of Cape Town’s world famous beaches and feature our client’s brands on the rented umbrellas. Have your logo and message seen and photographed by tens of thousands of locals and tourists for the full summer season with this turn-key solution. Supply us the logo and chosen pantone and we’ll secure you a stretch of beach to match your brand and budget.
03 CUSTOM USB FLASH STICKS A flash stick is a great gift! You put some music on it and give it to your friend. They put a document on it and give it to their colleage who takes it to an important meeting and gives it to their client who takes it home and puts a movie on it to play on their media player and so it goes. Your company logo moves from desk to pocket to computer to handbag to keyring getting being touched by lots of hands, seen by lots of eyes and giving you plenty of branding bang for your buck! Promo Import specializes in custom keyrings made specifically for you. Top AAA grade memory, fully tested to high specification then fitted into exciting different moulds in a number of materials. Plastic, rubber, metal and even crystal. Reinvent one of the most useful gifts we all love to get.
04 THE PROCESS Moving from concept to completion requires a large amount of planning. Starting with a design, sketching out CAD drawings, deciding on a material, choosing a manufactuer and controlling the process all while trying to land your product at the best price and to the best quality stanards. Promo Import works with a number of manufacturers. We don’t deal with Hong Kong agents and choose products from catalouges. We work with steel companies creating custom moulds for bar blades and hip flasks. Using the source materials to create something unique, strong and durable that will not be thrown away after one use but rather be cherished for years to come.
05 PROMOTIONAL GIFTS In a sea of branded hats, bags and caps, find that special message in a bottle that’s just on the horizon. Break the mould and go the extra mile to get that one gift that keeps on giving. The time is now... Promo Import is a small team of young talented and driven people. We have not been in the game for 2 decades like some of our competitors. But in our small few years we have sourced, manufacured, procured and shipped some of the biggest promotion deals for some of the biggest brands in South Africa. Call us and lets see if we can make magic together.
Address 403c The Regent, Regent Rd, Sea Point, 8445, Cape Town, South Africa
CONTACT Tel: +27(0)21 433 1618 Fax: 0866 928 456 Email: info@promoimport.co.za Web: www.promoimport.co.za