Award Winning Merchandise for Corporate Gifts

The BPMA Product Awards were held at the end of 2025 to highlight the products throughout the year that demonstrate the remarkable innovation, expertise and quality that define the merchandise sector.

Explore the categories below to see which products claimed the top prizes, perhaps even incorporate these award-winning products into your next marketing giveaway or campaign for 2026!

Drinkware Award Winners

Both drinkware options offer a 360° printing method in full colour, so you can customise the entire cup from top to bottom. Similarly, they are both double-walled for retaining heat and made from recyclable materials. The FOAMO cup is made in the UK from waste cooking oil and produces less CO₂e than a paper cup. The Calypso glass is made from Borosilicate Glass, giving you extra durability with your branded drinkware.

Food and Drink Award Winners

All of the food winners from the awards are UK-made products with sustainable packaging! The window slab box allows you to create your logo embodied inside a chocolate bar with a bespoke box, giving your custom confectionery that extra edge when promoting your brand.

The vegan treat pack is the perfect gift for any confectionery lover, featuring millions, cola bottles, Skittles and gummy bears. Essentially, a mini pick-and-mix selection that lets you brand each individual box and the outer box, creating a unique gift all wrapped together. There’s also an Easter option available in two sizes! Alternatively, fill each box with any sweet from our selection, providing a custom treat that works for your sweet giveaway campaign.

Bag and Folder Award Winners

The Wye backpack is a durable and stylish backpack made from water-resistant, recycled PU. It features a padded pocket for your laptop, two side pockets and an internal zipped organiser pocket. It’s part of a 6-bag range, allowing you to personalise multiple bags to create a cohesive style for your brand.

Looking for something practical and trendy? The pop-up case is a diverse bag that can be used as a beauty bag, cosmetic kit or a gadget case. This handy travel bag is made from water-resistant RPET with space to add your artwork as a transfer.

Combine style and security with the dual carry sling bag, featuring a hidden back pocket, a padded shoulder handle, and an iPad sleeve. Repreve is a recycled, high-quality performance fabric, also known for its traceability to show your product’s origin and evidence its sustainable claims.

Stationery Award Winners

The Maxton notebook is made from sugarcane bagasse, a waste product from sugar production. The pen loop and contrasting colour strip are made from recycled plastic to tie together the eco-credentials. Choose from multiple print options to customise this sustainable notebook to achieve the style that complements your branding.

The Appeel Ortisei diary was developed after the large interest in the Appeel notebook range, featuring a cover and paper pages made from organic waste, apples! This luxury diary offers either weekly or daily ivory-tinted pages made from FSC-certified sources. Results in beautiful depth debossing for a professional style.

The Shiro, made by the same manufacturers as the Ortisei, is a recycled paper notebook with rounded corners. It works well with debossing, foil blocking and even digital print, which can be printed edge-to-edge. Made with FSC-certified paper, the Shiro is an ideal choice if you want a combination of print choices to really elevate an elegant branded notebook.

Writing Award Winners

Available in 24 vibrant colours, the Baron Extra is a matte-styled pen made from recycled plastic. The complete collection of colours is styled upon the diverse wonders of the planet. Utilise the large digital print area to create a bold design for your logo.

For every Seashell pen sold, 5p is donated to the Seashell Trust, a charity that supports young people across the UK with learning difficulties and disabilities. The pen is made from recycled plastic and repurposed shell waste, which ties its name and purpose together seamlessly. An all-round, feel-good pen.

BIC’s original promotional pen offers a full colour digital wrap as well as printing to the clip. The barrel is available in black and white, but utilise the mix-and-match clip colour selection to create a unique combination for your branded pen.

UK Made Product of the Year Award Winners

You may recognise two of these products as winners within other categories, but each went a step further and earned another award!

The Capri leather phone stand wins its first award and, as the category suggests, is made in the UK by a very talented manufacturer. While this manufacturer primarily produces notebooks, their focus on reducing waste led to the creation of the key fob phone stand.

Other materials can be used to create the keyring, such as their Porto recycled range. Whichever fabric you select, the key fob can be completely bespoke to your company colours with mix-and-match features.

Sustainable Product of the Year Winner

This award-winning range of products shows that sustainability isn’t a trend. This award showcase didn’t have a sustainable theme, yet 90% of the products are made from recycled or sustainable sources. Over 50% of the products are also made in the UK, further showing the importance of supporting UK manufacturing and reducing your merchandise’s carbon footprint.

See anything that’s inspired you for your next branded merchandise gift? Get in touch with the team today. Call us on 01234 841741 or email us at sales@sycal.co.uk.